Happy Halloween!

we are still a little more green than we usually are this time of the year...

the yellow maples are just starting to turn...

looks more like mid September than the end of October...

not a lot going on around here...

I think we are in the last days of harvest and hubby should be returning to a more normal schedule sometime later this week...

a few of the trees have dropped their leaves, but not many...

we are not watering anymore...

which is a good thing...

we are getting spots of rain here and there...

enough to keep the green going...

I am sick...

sore throat, ear aches and all the snot that goes with that...

was doing much better, then all of once, yesterday morning...

I got to feeling really bad...

so healing up...

taking my cold meds...

and not doing a whole lot...

:)

love this weather...

cold, hot, cold, hot...

we need to mow again this weekend...

hopefully DH will be around to watch it all happen...

LOL

have a spooky night!

where do the days go?

they just seem to zip right by me anymore...

but I did find some fun images online...

and thought you might like to see them, too...

check out the prices on these wonderful old Halloween decorations...

I thought they were fun...

and get your spook on with these...

and last...

but not least...

I had to find some furry halloweeners...

someone up and glittered them, though...

that's scary to me!

both guys were off yesterday...

someone forgot to renew his driver's license on his birthday (the 3rd)...

(CRAIG)

and needed a lift to the DMV in Paris...

he had to take the written test and he passed...

so he is legal again...

I stayed home...

(under the weather)

and they did the Kroger shopping and brought home lunch...

(for them)

for me...

mine will last another meal or two...

we are much cooler here...

the leaves are starting to turn, but many are falling off green...

a week from today and we will be in...

NOVEMBER!

how can that be?

panic...

"the holidays are coming"

deep breaths...

just take deep breaths...

:)

News flash...

thought I would share this with you...

its from a newspaper from around here...

from 1929...

and you thought you had a bad week...

phissshhhh...

I have been sick off and on...

I think its a tummy flu or something...

but I am on the mend...

DH and Craig are working all the time...

I am bored most of the time...

started off the week by exploding things in the washer...

Monday, one of the dog toys...

Tuesday, one of the kitchen chair cushions...

did you know that floof stuff can almost fill a washer?

you should have seen me ripping through my list of things to do...

and then BAM!

down time...

but to do it twice in a row?

geez, Louise...

so I have given up laundry....

:)

Wednesday, I shampooed the living room...

did it 3 times!

twice with soap...

the 3rd was the rinse...

(you should have seen that dirty water!)

oh, it was bad...

HOW?

I keep telling myself...

next week will be better!

ok, now...

ask me how many pumpkins do I have...

go on...

NONE!

I haven't had the chance to get to the great pumpkin patch to get any!

I am so ashamed!

BUT, why go now?

there's only 10 days to go!

they are just going to rot anyway...

so might as well just put that pumpkin money in the Christmas fund...

shhhhh...

its not time for that yet...

my world is so wacky right now...

looking forward to having my husband back...

and for things to quiet down...

:)

have a great weekend...

got DH home with me today...

and there are about a million walnuts that we need to pick up before the guy comes to mow!

so we will be busy...

we have had a couple of chilly days here...

but it is going to warm back up a bit...

I took these yesterday...

late afternoon...

there are still some things blooming around here...

and our ferns did really well this year...

I have tried giving them away the last couple of years in the fall before the frost gets them...

and no one wants them...

the leaves are just beginning to fall...

and they are not pretty this year...

too much dry and not enough rain...

I love old things...

things that have fulfilled their 1st job and did it well...

but can still be "supportive"...

things that others have tossed for something new and fresh...

showing a little mileage...

even a little broken...

its like us that are aging...

still good for something...

still full of beauty if you know where to look...

and not quite ready to be tossed again...

I like to bring things home to live out the rest of their lives here...

like a junque nursing home...

:)

old and tattered...

still with purpose...

if nothing else but to make me smile...

:)

well, I am up like normal, but the rest are sleeping in...

long game last night...

I gave up and headed for bed...

by the way...

CUBS WIN

have a great weekend!

the diagnoses is trigger thumb...

it's not a really bad thing...

give it 6 more weeks...

and see him again...

if its not better...

a 10 minute surgery to free up the ligament...

do not over do it...

LOL

I can hardly use it now...

so, here I am...

stuck with a bum thumb...

on my right hand...

yeah, that's going to work...

the guys are helping do the simple things I used to always do...

Nov 15th I go back...

any other finger and it wouldn't be a problem...

I need my thumb back!

LOL

a nice fall day...

its really weird having all these summer like days in the fall...

the walnuts are down, mostly...

the wind a couple of days ago really shook the trees...

it also made the "gravediggers'' giddy looking...

they look absolutely hilarious!

I wish we could take credit for it...

:)

we are going to have to have the yard mowed again this coming weekend...

just enough rain to green it up and the warm days and nights are making it grow again...

its so quiet here much of the time...

with the guys working all the time...

interrupted by the farmers hauling to the elevator...

and the elevator is running all the time now...

the farmer behind us took the field out late yesterday afternoon...

and it was this green...

took this photo when I heard them in the fields...

still some on the trees yet...

I am doing a cleanse thing right now, so not getting too far from the bathroom...

I will be glad when its over...

:)

I am feeling better and cannot believe what has been coming out of me...

I guess I should do this more often...

got more rain coming tomorrow and Wed...

hoping we pick up some more...

still very dry...

not sure how the farmers are doing or where they are at on being finished...

one farmer posted today that he is done as of his last load going to the elevator this afternoon...

would love to be spending these days with DH...

I do miss doing the pumpkin patches and the fun things this time of the year...

we have lots of plans when he retires!

have a good week!

a few more photos...

boy, I have no idea where the week went...

but I am totally confused on which day it is...

with the guys schedules, there is no weekend anymore...

Craig had today off and they both work tomorrow...

we really did a lot of the jobs no one likes to do today...

I am having problems with my right thumb...

the pain is increasing daily and the one joint pops when I move it, sometimes it locks up...

so I have an appointment on Wed with the ortho at our clinic...

he is a new guy, but the bio sounds impressive...

not sure what will take place, but trying to get the inside stuff caught up in case I can't use my hand for a few days...

weeks...

hoping its not surgery time...

:)

made a pot of veggie soup today and we got enough rain to wet the pavement...

we sure had the wind, though...

I did get out just a bit in between things...

you should see all the walnuts on the ground now...

not a good time to be under those trees...

posting in the evenings might be the way it goes through harvest...

DH goes to bed so early some nights...

on the ones he has to go in at 5 anyway...

leaves me up with nothing to do...

:)

have a great Sunday!

just a quickie...

Craig has been off the last 2 days...

last evening, we did this...

loved doing it in the dark...

then it started raining through the night and most of the morning...

we got over 2 inches with more on the way the next 5 days...

we took a down day today...

neither of us felt very good...

and I ended up with a migraine this afternoon...

him with a sinus headache...

tis the season...

bebopping between tank tops and sweat shirts...

socks and tennis shoes and flip flops...

no wonder so many are sick around here...

so many kids are down and out of school...

so, how's your fall going?

stocking up on the candy yet?

been in the Christmas section?

more photos later this week...

everybody will be gone tomorrow and I will have more time...

when angels cry...