End of Season

The last of the monarchs emerged and the milkweed have died with the first frosts.

We’ve had our first snow of the season down low. Most of the mountain peaks above us and across from us have visible snow on them.

Irrigation season has ended. In each field, all the gated pipe have been pulled apart, trailered to their winter spots and stacked.

We are still coasting along well doing school. Ruby reads to Matt at night, usually after dinner.

Matt’s work is slowing down a little. His fall work days average around 13 hours long, with most of Sunday off.

Bikes without training wheels have been mastered by the oldest.

Stick horses are always good to play with on the porch.

The aspen/birch trees in the yard are the last of the trees around here to change color and drop. All the cottonwoods along the creek have lost all their leaves.

For the last couple of weeks, Ruby has been talking about sewing. She’s been asking me to teach her how to hand sew. She had great confidence in herself that she could do it. We found a little project that we had the materials for, got everything planned out and she got started.

Ta-Dah! After about 1.5 hours of steady working by herself with minimal help from Mama, she had a little monster pillow!

(I had to hot glue the eyes and mouth on for her…you know…because five year olds and hot glue guns is rather unsafe.)

(Also, the headlamp was for her to see the guide lines we made together on the black felt while stitching.)

The end of irrigation season means more time inside, doing projects and enjoying more time with Matt.