Today we say good by to our longest house guest of the year,  Mr. Boots!  He is currently out on patrol, saying good by to all his friends.  All the kittens he has met, and protected throughout the summer season.  Most have grown to reasonable size now, so the big Tom will leave them alone when he comes around.  They seem to be big and smart enough now to get out of old "Tom's" way when Boots is not around to protect them!

  We will also be saying goodbye to Nicole and Nathan this morning, as they are off to the big city of Saskatoon.  They will be spending a few days with his parents, then watching the labour day classic on Sunday, "RIDERS VS BLUE BOMBERS"!!!  Then Monday morning they all return to Calgary!

  We are not sure, but we may have friends of ours coming up to visit us for the balance of today.  They said, if they were to have the weekend off, they would give us a call and would be making the drive up.  Hopefully things will work out for them, it would be really nice to see them again.  

  After the kids are gone, I shall start with moving the awning from its permanent deck mount position back to it's travel position.  This way it will be easy to pull out or stow away, depending on weather conditions.  I really do not want to put it away damp like I did last year, otherwise when you open them up in the spring they show traces of mould!  Then there is a lot of washing and scrubbing to do, just to bring it back to new condition!  I really do not want to go to all that extra work again.  It's enough just to give the fifth wheel it's annual wash, without creating extra work to boot!  Lesson learned.

  Talked with some of our other neighbours yesterday, several are closing up this weekend full winterization.  One as early as this morning, said he was done for this season.  Wanted to get back home to finish his yard work, so he could list his house and move into a condo!

  So I guess there are a lot of people out there that are trying to make things simple in their lives.  Just like Susan and I are trying to accomplish in our lives.  We all just have different goals and reasons for getting there.  So for us, a few more projects will be completed this weekend.  This is our story of Building the Simple life......................