Trick or Treat!

May many good-natured ghoulies and ghosties find their way to your door!
May you have just a couple

left-over pieces of candy

you like.
And, may all the creepy-crawlies around your house

be plastic ones!

The Perfect Fall Day

What a day! It was nippy in the morning. I left the house without a sweatshirt and knew I'd shiver a bit. I was headed to the Saturday morning farmer's market. The local gas station showed a price of $2.99! The Democrat table was hopping and had some new Obama buttons. Apples were plentiful, crisp and wonderful. One grower has the apple varieties arranged from sweet to tart - a great help to me in deciding what to buy for EfM snack today. I chose honey-crisps and Yorks. Then I stopped by the goat cheese lady's table for my weekly dish of chevre and the jelly lady's table for a jar of pepper jelly. One last stop at the kettle corn booth and I was ready to leave.

That farmer's market is a real community. Buyers greet each other and stop to chat or wave as they make the rounds. The cheese lady knows me now and told me about her email list. The apple booth kids were lamenting the lack of a crock pot to make mulled cider for the chilly morning. The kettle corn guy and I talked over the college football schedule for today and wished each other's team luck... since we're not playing each other!

I headed to the car with my purchases and nodded to the driver waiting for my parking space. I'm going to miss the market when it closes in November!

Later on today I admired the fluffy white clouds in the blue sky over the autumn-hued leaves. Tonight we have a freeze watch. We have moved the tender perenials into the house. Ahhh, the seasons are turning. It's been the perfect fall day.

A Grammy Kind of Weekend

What a fabulous weekend! The granddaughters came up to visit! The occasion was the first running of the Brain Aneurysm Awareness Race in honor of Tim Susco, a classmate of Megan's. Tim would have been 27 on Saturday and it was important to Megan to participate in the event organized by Tim's family to heighten awareness of both brain aneurysm and organ donation.

Megan arrived with the girls on Friday. We enjoyed a family dinner and giving night-night kisses. Saturday morning we were six girls on the 2K walking route of the race. Hannah rode in a backpack and earned a medal for "finishing." The race was well-attended and appeared to be a success.

A primary activity for the weekend was photography. We have loads of photos taken by aunts, moms and a grandma! We even got the cameras set up to capture the elusive grandpa with all the "girls." It was fun to take little ones out to the playground again. Was it really twenty years ago that today's big girls were out there in the swings?

After a Sunday breakfast of grandpa-made pancakes, we kissed the little ones and their mom goodbye. We sure missed seeing their dad but it was great to have Grammy Time!