It's not like we're admitting that summer is over, but yesterday we took down our gazebo, and packed up our lawn furniture...

Good thing, too. Last night it started to rain like a cheap motel room shower, so we would have had to wait DAYS until everything dried up again. As a matter of fact, it's still raining this morning.

I also mowed the lawn, which is neither here nor there, but it fills up a sentence or two here. Sorry...

So, with all that done, I think we are now officially prepared for fall. Looking out at our empty back yard, with the neatly manicured lawn, I wonder, "hey, who the hell's yard is that"?? The only thing missing is leaves to rake up, which is a good thing, seeing as how we don' t have trees of our own in the yard. I'd hate to be raking up some other person's leaves.

We do have wasps though. On the other side of the fence, in one of our other neighbor's yards, there's a healthy, well-producing wasp nest. Which made taking down our gazebo just a little bit more entertaining when they swooped in to help out. But, we persevered (and dodged a lot), until the task was done.

See you next year, summer...

Chow for now!!

(Hey, aren't these things supposed to be funny???)