Entering the Tunnel

All's quiet in my personal blogosphere, because we're preparing to enter a long period of mayhem, mostly related to our jobs. As a family, we have six out-of-town trips planned for the next six weeks. J and I each have three trips for work, plus travel to a wedding. I see our autumn as if we're at the beginning of a long dark tunnel, where you are whooshed through the darkness and come out the other side in the light, blinking and disoriented. That'll be us, come mid-November.

We're going to attempt a two birds/one stone approach for one of the trips, because we both have work-related meetings in the same city (or maybe that's two stones/one bird? Am I bird or a stone? Whatever.) It'll be the first time we've tried to travel for work with O., so that'll be interesting.

Home stuff--nothing new, just maintenance. We're still very dry, but the nights have cooled off and we've a little rain, so everything is green again. I've had a few herb harvests, and I made a Italian seasoning mix and have a nice supply of chives for the winter. My lavender has finally bloomed too. It was one of the few plants that was very happy in August heat and humidity. At the moment I'm trying to get the basil going again because I want one more batch of pesto to freeze. And--bonus--my cilantro has self-seeded, so I hope to enjoy that soon.