1. My siblings came to visit in this weekend, which was a delight. I still had work and employees around but I stopped working as soon as they were done for the day and started the campfire in the backyard. There was much delicious food, chatting and my mom gave me some fleece as a birthday gift. Gorgeous fleece from Clemes and Clemes, looking forward to working with it. My brother brought his dogs, so I got dog snuggle times and much general amusement because his dogs are so weird and funny

2. My mom still hasn't apologized for using my strainer but she offered to pay for the new one, so that's solid

3. Between me and the employees, we got all of the old plastic mulch out of the field that has been lingering there for years, my dad didn't want to just pull it up by hand the year we tried it and then he kept putting off removing it. We've got strawberries going in that field next year, so it had to get up. 

4. I was going to run to town today and get groceries and pick up more fertilizer for the strawberries, but it's a holiday and probably no one is open. Oh no, I'll just need to stay home and enjoy my day off work and bake things :)

5. The weather has been SO NICE. I can't believe we got weeks of nice weather in August and so far predicted into Sept. Hoodies and blankets and not that much sweating while working. It's incredible. I've been irrigating because it's dry but nothing like beautiful temps in the upper 60s, low 70s to make me appreciate it after how hot and muggy most of the summer was.