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21,550 + 1. That's because yesterday was my birthday.

What a nice weekend! Summer had abruptly ended in our part of the northwest with fall like weather and temperatures and even some very much needed rain. Such a relief from a long pretty hot summer. Luckily no fires like last year.  So yes, yesterday was my birthday. Those numbers are the days I've been around since I was born, plus the one since I didn't get to this post yesterday.  Way back when, I was born on a Wednesday, this year a Sunday and when on Mondays, I remember those most from over the years.  As a kid my birthday always meant one thing and one thing only, school was just about to start. With the cooler weather and the three days off, Stacy and I got a jump on some fallen trees on our property for our wood stock pile for this year. We spent much of Saturday on this job with other jobs getting done too.  The rain made it possible for us to use our chainsaws which we wouldn't have been super safe to use with the really dry last couple of months. In this area from