Summer in September

We have had fantastic weather this last week and it looks set to continue for a while too. The whole area is taking a huge sigh of relief. The combines have been working non-stop to bring in the grain and the balers are busy packing up the straw. A few weeks back the news was that the harvest was a disaster but I think things have turned around now.

This is Conor's favourite time of year. Last year he managed to get a ride in a combine harvester and he was chuffed to bits. This year we are waiting for the maize to be harvested. The maize harvester is Conor's favourite machine. The field surrounding our house is full of maize which is almost ready to be chopped. I hope we will be around to see the event.

We spent all of Saturday at the Ballydaniel house. Liam spent most of the time colouring and drawing in the mobile home whilst Conor and I did some manual labour, filling in a trench containing the pipe from the mobile home to the sewer. The boys couldn't be more different: Liam is the real artist, Conor is the worker. Liam made me laugh because he kept popping his head out of the door shouting things like "Put your backs into it", "You can do better than that". He thought it was hilarious. Conor had enough after a while and went off to build a wall with old bricks. He did a great job too.