It is definitely cooling down here but not enough to kill off mosquitoes. This week we moved the sheep twice and the goats. We also set up the yurt only to have it fall down again. However, we may have found the problem. The rafters are all different lengths. We'll see what will be done about this, but for now, the yurt project is on hold. We also helped Daniel put up rails on a fence in the corral. They had to be replaced because they were rickety, and it is time to band the male calves. On Wednesday, Grant and I went to two farms to cut flowers and arrange bouquets for the CSA. We don't exactly know why it became our job this week, but it was fun to do something new. On Thursday, the chicks went into their tractors! On Friday, we found two legs and some other chicks were injured. Apparently, something (possibly a fox) came up to the chicken wire sides and started gnawing on the chicks as they slept pressed against the sides. We spent some time cutting boards and filling sandbags to protect the chicks at night. We transplanted the last crop, kale. It will overwinter and make seed next year. We also planted some fall crops for us to eat-carrots, lettuce, beets, peas, chard, spinach, and pok choi. On Friday, we also weeded a perennial flower bed. We left for a little backpacking trip on Friday afternoon. Expecting advice on where to go, we went to the ranger station, but instead we got a senile lady and a complete psycho who was no help. We ended up deciding on a loop around Applegate Lake. It was a very nice trip except for the mosquitoes and some horrible people at our second campsite that were yelling at each other for what seemed like hours. We saw two snakes- a milk snake (red on black friend of Jack) and something else, probably a gopher snake. There were also lots of nice ripe blackberries that we stopped multiple times to gather. It was great to hike again.