Harvest / saying godbye to summer

Every day now feels like the end. We wake up early and have to wear slippers and throw in a sweatshirt. But the sun is strong in the mountains, and by mid-morning it's almost warm enough for shorts. Today is a perfect Sunday. We really should have gone food shopping, but I couldn't stand to spend the day running around. (sorry kids, graham crackers and carrots again for lunch this week.) Poppie and Cody helped me harvest our pathetic veggies and plant some lupine seeds we collected on a hike. Cody ate a bunch of seeds. He'll be OK, right? It was a long, cold, rainy spring. We didn't see the sun until July, and then it didn't rain all summer. Also there was an explosion in the ground squirrel population. I was surprised to see oven out toothpick sized carrots.