Saturday November 1, 2008 was another beautiful day. Brilliant sun, blue sky and 50 degrees. Being Irish, I have somewhat of an awareness of old Irish customs. In the Druid world, today would be the first day of winter.

Jim and I continued to get ready for winter. We are still experimenting with the most efficient way to feed. The bale processor works well. We chopped up a bunch of straw for bedding and blew it into the pens.

We took our dog, Patches with us up to the barn today. He is a mostly, we think, Jack Russell Terrier. Mary says he is like a pogo stick with ADD. He likes to run around around the outside of fence. On a previous trip, he find out how electric fences feel. The cows mostly ignore him or just look at him as though wondering what does that foolish dog want. He likes to ride in the tractor. We have to be careful because if we take our eye off him he'll look for barnyard substances to roll in. This is not good.

We went to mass in Jordan and got takeout subs for dinner. Later, we went over to our neighbors and watched the Syracuse football game. Amazingly, they won.