1) Lower your expectations for how much you’re going to get done in a given amount of time.

Or the the Summeryness of the season either for that matter.. OK, we’ve only been in this house for a month and two days, so I’ll cut myself some slack on that one.. Outside on the property though, there are so many things happening that we had nothing to do with, that really indicate the season and give us a sense of a place in time..I took a little stroll around yesterday to try to capture the last few bits of August before September takes over tomorrow.. An old doorway behind the barn.

The grass is cut back here, but no one has bothered to trim the weed away this year.. A giant spiderweb over one of the barn’s window openings, with the sunlight streaming through..The cornfields are full and tall enough to touch the sky..The barn.. They’ve been spending all week tilling (is that what you call it?)

the field across the street, now that the wheat is all harvested.Last night it seemed like they were finally done their big job..

These fields are endless and they’re my favorite place to watch the sunset, although last night I was out a bit early to catch it..

Some kind of root vegetable is growing here but what, I don’t know.Besides, I can always go back to Leo.Do you ever feel like you’re learning way too many big life lessons for a person your age?

Do you always feel like you should know that already?We went camping this weekend and I did that again.. We left on Thursday morning and by Wednesday, mid-day-ish I had already completely lost my composure and was freaking out (to myself and the cat) about how out of control of the packing situation I was.

This was supposed to be the year when I took lots of extra time to make all my preparations just perfect, but that didn’t happen.Why do we even go camping anyway?