The end of summer?

September 10 and the leaves are mostly gold around here now. It wasn't much of a summer. Only a few days above 70F and a lot of rain. We did manage to get the deck built and I almost have the house painting done. I just have a little trim left to do and I hope there is enough nice fall days to do it.
Mary finally got the kitten she has wanted ever since we moved to Willow. He is a little gray monster called Earl Grey. He was 8 weeks old when Mary brought him home and I guess he is about 3 months old now. He is a little under weight, according to the veterinarian, but healthy and active. The dogs all get along with him pretty well. He and Daisey play quite a bit together. Susi and Misty tolerate having him around and Grizz just ignores him. He was gotten under the pretense of us needing a cat to keep the mice down in the shop with the goats but I doubt Mary will ever even let him go outside.
Mary and I have both been pretty upset with all this Sarah Palin BS. We are both kind of liberal in the first place and Palin is about as conservative as you can get. What bothers us the most is the way the republicans have put her on a pedestal proclaiming she is a woman who has been able to do it all. Admittedly she has done a lot, but most of what she has done has been wrong, at least in my opinion. She is just like any other republican that professes to be doing the job for the good of the country when actually they are just in it to get out of it what they can for themselves. Can you believe she actually charged the state to live in her own house in Wasilla. It wasn't because the state requested she live in Wasilla but she just didn't want to move her family to Juneau. She's just a crook like Ted Stevens, Don Young and Frank Murkowski an she is running a campaign about change and reform. Bull Dickie! Mary and I have actually talked about moving to Canada if the republicans win the White House again. Neither one of us can believe how close the race is. The Democrats should have been able to put Homer Simpson up as a candidate and won in a landslide with all the damage the republicans have done over the past 8 years. Apparently I give the voting public too much credit. Enough about politics.
Mary's sister Pike ( that is pronounced like pee kay) has decided to come over next summer with her family. Actually it was Esko's wife Camilla that thought it would be fun to go visit aunt Mary in Alaska and they asked Pike to come along. Then Esko's sister Ellu heard about it and asked if she and her mate could come along too so we are going to have a full house next summer.
OK, so I've updated for the month but now I have to go clean the car so Mary and I can go out tonight. Maija got us some tickets to a the Prairie Home companion show so we have to go into Anchorage tonight. Our cars are all full of dog hair so I have to get at least one cleaned up so we look nice tonight.