Wasn't that supposed to be for relaxing?

I was pretty busy over the weekend, but I'm really glad everything got done. For now I'm sitting here while children are sleeping and planning out my day. I have several gifts to get finished before the Yuletide season arrives and should be able to work on them a little each day. I also have several charity knitting projects going. The chickens are getting bigger and we should have our first egg sometime next month. I still need a nesting box for them and will get that going in a week or so. I think I know how to do it, but I'll ask K to help with some of the cutting.

So far the car has been driving very well. It's very small and Sir Goth has a bit of trouble driving it, but it is fine for taking the daycare kids to school. I still need to get the oil changed, but that will have to wait until next month. I pretty much drained my envelopes this month with all the little things that happened earlier (school shopping, Serephina's vet bill, the fact that my check was more than $250 short). Hopefullly the 1st of October will be a little easier to deal with.

Our tomatoes are doing ok, but not as well as I'd hoped.So far we've hardly had any that are actually ripe. The orange ones are nice, the flavor is a little more bland than the red, but I think they'd do well in a salad. We've only had a couple cucumbers as well. I think next year I will most likely do a lot of planting out at K's place instead of here... after I build a fence to keep the bunnies out.

Tomorrow morning we'll be taking Samurai to the Humane Society. Who is that? He's the kitten that showed up under the bushes in the front yard last week. Both kids have asked if we could keep him, but I explained that we really can't have 4 cats in the house and an outdoor cat isn't healthy. It really would be better for him to have a home where someone can take good care of him. Lady Dreamer said that Samurai would be ok in our back yard, but I pointed out that he can get out of the yard... what if he got hit by a car? Or caught by the neighborhood bullies? Or in a fight with an opossum? These are worries one must deal with when you have an outdoor pet. Luckily, this Humane Society won't put an animal to sleep once they put it up for adoption. And as sweet as Sam is, I know he'll get adopted pretty soon.

Anyway, I have too much knitting to do and I need to get going on it. Even though I won't be giving that many gifts this year, I still want them to be done before the Solstice.