In the mornings and evenings, it is finally starting to feel like fall. We've been taking advantage of the good weather by having some school outside. Gyunay set up a makeshift desk on the deck:
Lydia prefers to work on the shed roof (with cats):
It's nice for me, too, because I can check on them easily while working in the garden. I still have green beans to harvest about every other day. We are still getting tomatoes, although no where near as many as just a couple of weeks ago. The chickens keep flying out of their yard and munching on the tomatoes, so that doesn't help, either. I harvested the fourth Long Island Cheese pumpkin yesterday, and I think I've dug up all of the sweet potatoes. I'm working on turning some of the front yard into a cottage garden of sorts, so that will take quite a bit of work. I've been waiting for nicer weather, and it is finally here. It still gets over 80 in the afternoon, but the mornings and evenings are so pleasant, and we've had a nice breeze most of the time. Fall is teasing that it may come. I do hope we get some great fall weather. It's so depressing when it goes straight from summer to winter.
I just read The Gryphon Heist by James R. Hannibal, and it was one I didn't want to put down. This book is suspenseful, and the action never lets up. I enjoyed the tension and the larger-than-life heist. I don't want to give away any of the plot twists, so suffice it to say that I was interested from start to finish. I appreciated the humor in the dialogue as well as the action. My sixteen-year-old son also read and enjoyed this book. Those who like Mission-Impossible type stories will enjoy this one. I could see this being made into a successful action film. It was fun, and I look forward to seeing the next installment in this series. 
