About a half inch of precipitation this week. Grass growth has slowed in all but the shady wetter areas of yard, which is the only location requiring regular mowing at this time. Leaves are beginning to turn on some trees; Autumn Blaze maple has not got a single bit of red on it yet. In a typical year it would be ALL red by mid-October. Local water bodies at normal early-autumn levels. Soybean harvest well underway. I had to turn on the house heat this week due to two nights in the 34-degree range, but it is now off as the weather is perfect. No frost yet in this location but half mile away there was. Hummingbirds have disappeared at last.