Where did the summer go?

I knew July would be busy. It had everything I was looking forward to: the newest Harry Potter movie, the final Harry Potter book, my birthday, Mr. Man's birthday, the 4th of July, our annual trip to Race4theCure in the Brainerd Lakes area, the closing on our old house (SOLD!).. but seriously, what happened here? How can it be nearly August? Shoot - Target has had back-to-sale displays up for weeks now. On Monday I saw the school buses learning their new school-year routes around the neighborhood. It's sad but true.. summer is more than half-over.

We have a new truck with a snow plow attachment on it. I figure it's the next logical step in our adaptation to rural life at Rancho Anderson.
We got the huntin' dog, the air rifle (for the voles and groundhogs wrecking our yard with their tunneling), now we have a classy '73 Chevy rusting gently on our cement slab parking spot.
I'll resist the urge to use it as a lawn ornament propped on cement blocks when the time comes..though wouldn't it look nice next to our faded out wooden well cover with a circle of lawn gnomes around it? NOT.

Anyhow, for now the truck is the new favorite toy for the boys at our house. Who wants to ride the John Deere lawn tractor when there's a NOISY TRUCK to go 4-wheelin' in?