10.9.2013

It was a beautiful fall day in NY...the sky was its familiar crazy blue and while the morning was chilly, it warmed up into the 60s.  I hung around the apartment today doing fire school work and catching up on some cleaning. 

I also talked to our landlord - she did end up selling the apartment building so we're praying that nothing changes as far as our rent or agreements.  Her closing is tomorrow.  Fingers crossed about that issue.

I took lunch to Jim at the lot - poor thing was in the trenches shoveling by hand!  I felt so bad for him.  But he had already done from the new transformer pad to the first culvert section and it looked great.  When I got there he was just starting on the other side that will go all the way down the driveway.  The storm we got on Monday did some damage and the only way to really fix it at this point is by hand.  Thankfully the soil is sandy otherwise it would be an impossible task.  Now it will just be a backbreaking one.  Jim said he texted Kyle and told him that after 3 graduate degrees he's still digging ditches!  These are definitely the un-glamorous parts of this adventure.

The DMV didn't have all my paperwork yet so my trip into Saratoga was postponed.  While we were eating lunch, Jim decided we should go unload the truck of the tools he brought home last week from Ohio.  Plus, in a couple weeks people will be bringing their cars to the barn we are using for storage so we have to compress our areas into only 2 spots from the entire area we had over the summer.  Jim had already done lots of that with both Bryan and Kyle's help at various times, but there was still work to be done plus all the stuff we had to bring into that space.   So we headed out to the barn to get busy.

Jim worked really hard - there wasn't a whole lot I could do to help out too much - and got everything unloaded and everything perfectly condensed into our 2 spots.  So we should be good for the winter without having to worry about that.  That's a big relief. 

We did stop at Knight's Orchard and get some more apples - they are just so good from this place!

As we were driving home and getting close to Angel to drop off the truck and pick up the cars, it was just an incredible sunset.  We were hoping we'd get up to the top of the hill to see it.  This was the tail end of it but it was still absolutely gorgeous - trust me, these pictures don't do it justice!

In this shot, you can see both the moon and the sunset...so pretty!