It was a little frosty this morning. Not bad for this time of year, 28 degrees, but it's coming. Sounds like next week will give us our first taste of winter. Still, we've been pretty lucky. We usually get a little preview of snow before Halloween. Bring it on, I'm ready.

Mom's life insurance finally came through yesterday, so I was able to write a check to the funeral home. It's not about the money, but $4,420 funeral expenses don't leave much of her $5,000 worth of life insurance. And that's only if the funeral home waves the extra $400 charge for not paying it within 30 days. We'll see, they might, because it was close. If not, that leaves $180, and that's split five ways between my sister, brothers, and I. Good grief.

I've been hauling wood from one of my reserve piles to one of my main piles. The main pile I am burning from now is one that I am no longer going to replenish, because I decided that I don't need to keep much over 2 years worth of firewood in the yard. But, I believe that it's benefit as blocking noise from the highway and a windbreak are too good to pass up. I am going to have one row of wood where the pile was, like a fence, instead of the whole pile. So that's what I've been doing with firewood lately, building a "firewood fence"!