Learning to live with disappointment

So it's been a week and the construction guys still haven't come back to put up the pergola. Oh they call, "My back is out", "The weather wasn't good"... So we are thinking of getting someone else to do it. The problem is they still have the instructions for getting the materials. I'm starting to get really ticked off, because this is October and the (relatively) warm weather isn't going to last much longer. Mom and I were both off today and we had been waiting for such a day to dig post holes and start to put up the fence that is going to go around the four raised beds we are going to build next spring to plant vegetables in. We had to wait until around 12:30 for it to get warm enough to go outside (56 degrees) and get started. But the temperature was great cause you weren't sweating your butt off or freezing to death. We managed to get the four posts we had in the ground, but were too tired by the end of that to put the fence sections on. Other than that life has been pretty typical for fall around here. It's been getting down to freezing every night for at least a week and we have been running the pellet stove at night to warm up the house. Mom got another ton of pellets and a cord of firewood, so all her nesting for winter seems to be done. I cleaned the porch off of the semi-dead flowers and we bought two bales of hay and about 20 pumpkins to decorate the front porch. All of these decorations are chicky edible so I was allowed to go what most would consider a bit crazy. Hope everyone is enjoying their fall!