Farmless

After a highly dramatic closing, we are farmless. About 24 hours before our scheduled closing I listened to a voice mail as I headed out of St. Paul. The title company had called to tell me that some glitches had come up, so we spent the next day fretting over numbers and details and we made a lot of calls. We closed a day late (Friday) but we are now officially finished with the August Earth chapter of our lives. Though we've been slowly making our way to this day for a long time, it still feels abrupt. Suddenly we aren't responsible for our dog, Toblerone, who is staying at the farm, and the other 40 acres of life that surrounded us. We are ready to move forward, but we're pretty exhausted from the last two months-the CSA, moving, law school...It's finally time to recover and relax. I guess we can ALMOST relax anyway; after we unpack, get organized, and, well, I guess Peter doesn't getmuch of a break from school, "Fall Break" is not much of a break with tons of studying and a take-home test, and a paper to write.

The three of us had a fun falltime walk through Youngstrom Woods outside of Litchfield on Thursday since we suddenly had a free afternoon. The leaves had mostly fallen, but they were still beautiful. I was excited for Fredrik to have an "in-the-woods" experience, with the foresty sounds, shadows, and sights. He seemed to like it.