Today is Sword's birthday, but we celebrated it on the 17th, as that was a Wednesday. Today, and for the next ten days or more, Lawrence will be on vacation with his family out of state. So today was an ordinary day for us, except that we had banana cake for breakfast.
I went for a walk after lunch with Brownie, and I noticed that the wind had blown some of the ripening pears off the trees before their time.
I gathered as many of the fallen pears as I could, in the hopes they will still ripen at home.
Luckily, there are still many more pears left on the tree.
In the late afternoon, Bow and I went out. While in the outer pens, we heard some distant thunder. It would start, then stop, with no clear resolution. Bow was confused as to what he should do about it. Should he ignore it, protest against it, ask to go back inside, or just take it lying down?
Eventually we did go back in. There is still thunder out there, but now it is closer. No rain yet, though.




