September already!!!

Today is September first and I can hardly believe it. It seems like this year has just flown by and I feel like I'm still trying to play catch up.

The last two days of August were chilly and blustery. It really started to feel like Autumn was on the way, and I must admit I'm kind of excited for it to get here. I know we didn't have much of a summer and some people really like the heat but I'm not the kind of girl that likes it being much more than 80-85F regularly. Mid to upper 70's is much more my kind of thing ;)

I'm not really sure what this month will hold but I do know that the next couple of days will involve apples...

I've been trying to get my hands on apples at a really reasonable price and I even hit a produce stand this morning to see what kind of a deal I could score. I was pretty impressed at the price for a box really, considering you'd pay twice as much in the grocery store...

But, as I was having coffee with a friend of mine this morning my hubbie called to say that his Grampa was on route to our place with two types of apples for us. I couldn't believe it - I was stoked! There's really no better price than free... Only shame being that I wasn't home, but he said he'd leave them on the deck for us.

I got home to find that he'd brought us two big boxes of apples, each one almost full! I was so excited... It means I'll be having a double date with them and my canning supplies for the next couple days! (Yah, I'm weird and/or easily pleased)

Well, the other exciting thing that happened today was that I bought my very first hunting license and deer tag. Yup, this means I'm definitely going hunting this fall! It's kind of a weird thing for me, since I don't know if I'm actually going to have the guts to aim and shoot at the deer when the time comes, but I'm definitely up for the challenge and am starting to look forward to it.

Not so much of a city girl after all, eh?

More birds (photos)

The grosbeak's have arrived

So, it seems like the Grosbeak's have found the Fast household and they like to dine here now.

Yesterday was the first day I actually saw them outside. I'd seen the odd finch here and there take some sunflower seeds, but never really any real activity.Yesterday as I was trying to keep my mind occupied while waiting for my surgery time to roll around I noticed that we had a couple of evening grosbeaks in the feeder. Then slowly the group got really big.
I ended up getting a pizza tray out there with more seed on it so they didn't have to fight over the one seed tray and last night when Cory went to get my prescriptions he picked up another seed try that we could hang out there for them.
I'd say there must be somewhere between 60 & 70 Grosbeaks here with us right now, not to count the ones that are hanging out over the road at John & Janet's place for grub!
Anyway, I got to watch them all morning while I was waiting for my appointment time to roll around, and I got some good photos of them too... I'll have to try and get some better pics the next couple of days though, since I only got a few birds in the photos compared with how many are actually here!