Fall Fun

Welcome to my new followers!

Our 4 acres of oak trees are really starting to lose their leaves and the granddaughters have been taking full advantage of the big drifts of them. They've spent most of the last two days raking them up and doing this:

Aftermath

The pies have been pillaged, the turkey is in tatters everyone has gone home and it is very quiet. It was a great Thanksgiving-now to take a deep breath and get ready for Christmas!

Happy Thanksgiving

Brrrrrr...

It's cold and icy today-went to church this morning and had Sunday dinner with the kids and grands-now we're staying in for the rest of today and maybe tomorrow! We are still under a winter storm warning until tomorrow with more freezing rain to come.

Icicles on autumn leaves

Hard to see, but there's ice encasing the branches

And last but certainly not least:

You can lead a 4 year old to a Thanksgiving pageant, but you can't make her sing!

We had a Thanksgiving lunch at our granddaughter's preschool last week. She practiced her songs for the program all week and was so excited, but when she got on stage she was having none of it! Looked at the floor and refused to sing! She bounced back afterwards and was all smiles!

Color My World

Here are a few pictures I took around our place this morning. Things were still fairly green just a week ago, but in the last few days the leaves have really changed. The cold weather and wind predicted for this weekend will probably bring all of them down, so I decided I'd better get some photo's made.

Our house from the side

Prairie Sumac in the woods next to our land

View from in front of the kitchen window

Down our road

Happy Friday!

This and That...

Welcome to my new followers and thank you so much!  Not much new to say today, just a few thoughts. We had our first real cold snap yesterday and first hard freeze last night. Oaks are turning dark red and gold, and it's nice to settle in and enjoy a cozy evening after a busy day.  November will be half over by the end of the week and my turkey for Thanksgiving is in the freezer-hoping to have all of our kids and grandkids together here in a couple of weeks.

Autumn is hurrying by and hopefully a few health issues of my husband's will be resolved soon, or at least a plan of action in place by the end of the year. We're looking forward to having a quieter year next year-of course we say that every year and it hasn't happened yet!.  :-)

Veteran's Day

Thinking with gratitude today of those in our family have who proudly served their country.

My dad

My father-in-law

His brother Wilber-died when his bomber was shot down over the Sea of Japan during WWII

Happy Friday

Sorry I haven't been very good about posting lately. Things are getting hectic with our daughter's schooling now as it's just a few weeks until finals and projects are due. We've been keeping the grands most days but are enjoying a "day off" today. We've been enjoying puttering around the house and even went for a drive. We're enjoying mild autumn days and chilly nights here; the leaves are still changing color, so it was a pretty drive. Nothing exciting going on, but that's just fine with me!

Halloween

Here are a few pictures of our Halloween cuties!

Spidergirl, a Minion (from Despicable Me) and a vampire who is crouching down to look scary! She's really
quite a bit taller than that!

Here's our sweet little cow in the pumpkin patch! Wish he lived closer!

I love this one-totally candid!  (I couldn't have gotten Alaina to pose like that!)

Lots of fun was had by all. Today we are back as our poor daughter had to have a bad tooth taken out. She's not feeling to well today, but she should be back to normal soon. Just 6 weeks until her graduation!