This past weekend was compost weekend. The days are getting cooler, Fall is slowly unfurling her cape and it is time to put the lawn to bed.
All of this is a wonderful and glorious thing..once you get past the feed lot smell - it is so hard to believe something so wonderful (manure) would smell like something so awful (manure).
Don't get me wrong - I personally love the smell. Not rub it on the inside of your wrists and dot it behind your ear kind of love, but more of a nurturing, healthy life cycle kind of love.
My men shoveled...
And raked...
And shoveled some more...
And when all was said and done we played (having already become accustom to the odor...
Jared trying to end his football career at 8...
And all of us appreciating what the earth has given us this year by trying to give her a little offering in hopes of our next year being just as beautiful.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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