October

Time is flying by-I can't believe that the end of October is already here! Our grands will all be out Trick or Treating tomorrow and I'm looking forward to seeing their costumes. I know we will have a soccer coach, a mermaid and a tiger here, don't know about the two youngest yet. They'll be cute no matter how they dress up! It's our youngest's first Halloween.

Our rain returned this month after taking a vacation for the summer. We had 3 inches last week and another inch today. Tonight, we are due for some very heavy rains. Fortunately, we don't have the flooding issues they are having in central and south Texas.

Many of our trees have dropped a lot of their leaves due to the heat and dry conditions, but we should still have some pretty color. We usually have our prettiest leaves in mid-November since we are so far south.  We were in Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas two weeks ago, and the leaves were beginning to get really pretty.

Going to our daughter's house for dinner tonight-looking forward to seeing them! Tomorrow, watch out for "ghoulies and ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night"!

Barns

We have just returned from a week in Tennessee and Kentucky to do some genealogy work and just relax and enjoy the countryside. We saw so many beautiful things and were even able to find the places where our families lived 150 to 175 years ago. They were pioneers who came to these states in search of land and a better way of life for their families.

One thing that I really enjoyed was seeing the barns old and new as we drove, because many of them had giant quilt squares painted on them! Many counties in Kentucky have "quilt trails" where people have agreed to have a giant painted quilt square attached to their barn. These are a few: (not my pictures-it was too hard to get a good picture from a moving car)

There were so many, all different colors and patterns. Beautiful!