Shorter days mean less time to play outside

For me "falling back", or the end of Daylight Savings Time, is a time that I personally do not enjoy.  I'm one of the few that find that extra hour (do we really get an extra hour of sleep/rest?) rather exhausting.  By early afternoon I'm beat and find myself dozing off during the NASCAR race or Steelers game (whichever happens to be on, yesterday I had to toggle between both of them although I will admit that I spent more time yelling at the football game than the race.  Yeah, I get a bit mouthy during a Steelers game).  Since I wasn't showing or training my day was spent doing domestic stuff (started out with trip to the grocery store at 7:15am, I should have been there at 6:30), cooking, cleaning, vacuuming and hanging out.  Other than the trip to the store and some time outside cleaning the yard and mowing for what should be the last time this year, my day was rather uneventful.

BUT, we did get to do some agility on Saturday (I say some, there is a story to be told about locking the dogs in the van, I guess I'll do that in another post) and then Howard, Hank and my crew all took a nice hike around the farm to let everyone blow off some steam.  Last weekend my guys did that with the fluffy Sami's so perhaps this will be a weekly thing for the fall/winter weekends.

It has cooled down for the majority of us and some of us got quite wet last week.  I didn't hear from Art so perhaps he can let us know how Milo and the family made out with Sandy.  I think Ella has seen some white stuff by now and rumor has it we may see some later this week in Central PA.  Howard lost a pear tree, I had a shutter ripped off and some furniture thrown off of my porch.  Other than that all was good at my place after Sandy came through the area.  Facebook has kept a lot of  us up to date on friends and family along the east coast, it is a handy service for stuff like that.

If the weather holds for this coming weekend I'll get some pictures of the dastardly duo.  Today our M&M litter is 17 months old!  Time sure seems to have flown, wouldn't you agree?

Stay tuned for the locked van story.