Stuff occurring, life going on...

Fall's colors are still out, but a bit marred by a near-constant drizzle of the past week. On the last sunny-ish day, I had snapped this photo from the porch:


Along with, apparently, this photo of Starbuck, the Amazing Boneless Husky, and her Sofffty Schnozz:
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Now, to maintain dog-photo parity, here is a photo of Cricket with her fishy:


It is SUPER IMPORTANT that I share those with you!

The weekend before last, we finished splitting and stacking our last pile of firewood for the year, just over 2 cords of spruce:

(This pile is in addition to the 2 cords of spruce and 4 cords of birch we tackled earlier this summer. And by "we" I mean mostly DL.)

Quite a few of the spruce pieces were super gnarly!


And twisty!


And needed to be split with a wedge and sledgehammer!




I hate stacking and usually make a wobbly mess of it. DL stacks wood like the most responsible of the proverbial three little piggies:


While we toil and sweat, the dogs lounge in the sun: