Several transitions this weekend. While recent wet forecasts have ended up less wet, the odds improve a lot by late October. With that in mind, I mowed the uppermost lawn one last time, and munched up plenty of leaves in the process! We also took Zuzu in for her neutering appointment so she can become an indoor cat before cold rains make her miserable. She's a bit freaked by Duncan so far (24 hours in), but he is mighty thick compared to her family thanks to his Siamese coat (Zuzu is a short-hair study in black and white, Duncan more of a downy caramel mocha).
I also took partial advantage of the last dry day to get our wood-pile in a better place, and under some rain protection. It will now sit near the wall of our metal outbuilding to minimize carpenter ant interest in a pile of wood leaning on our home! The main stack must sit under a temporary blue-tarp roof. At some point it will be more of a wooden lean-to structure, but time's up to get that project underway. It's a longer walk now, but perhaps later I will set up a staging area with some wood near the front door (after the porch roof is built - another item that didn't get done in time!). My wrists already ache from picking up and setting down so much wood, and I didn't get finished either - so the next dry spell will see me out there again.
It would be nice to see some seasonal weather though; we were quite mild last winter and quite dry since early Springtime. Real October weather would be a nice change of pattern, in more ways than one.
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