Home again, home again, jiggity-jig

After three long and fruitful months at my field site I'm back home with the two pups and Ryan. The summer, although long, was very productive and pretty fun. Here are some pictures from the last month or so.

Waterfall outside of Minneapolis, MN. What a lovely and active park!

The infamous cherry in a spoon sculpture in Minneapolis.

Skyline (Minneapolis). The weather was unbeliveably perfect while I was there (early August). It was never more than 80 degrees during the day and cool enough to have the AC off and windows open at night.

My giant corn at the end of the summer. (PA)

An action show of me collecting soil cores and litter bags. Thanks, Dave, for the picture!

This past week I decided to have a stay-cation so that I could take care of a few odds and ends around the house. Little did I know this would end up being mostly a deep house cleaning and yard upkeep kind of vacation. Oh well! At least we were able to take care of all the tasks that had piled up...vacuuming, laundry, mowing, trimming, car maintenance, bird coop cleaning, gardening, preserving foods, and loving on the dogs :)

School starts up tomorrow. Since I'm finished with classes I don't have the same "first day of school" butterflies that I normally get. None-the-less, tomorrow I'll be biking to campus to start processing the one thousand plus vials of insects I collected this summer. It's going to be so much fun! (not)

Fall is around the corner and I'm already looking forward to my Mom's upcoming trip to NH for the leaf change. Plus the cooler weather means we'll be able to light up the wood stove again, which warms my soul.