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Subtly of Fall

Today the temps were in the low 40’s, the wind was howling and the rain was coming down sideways.  I miss summer already.  Luckily Katie and I got to go to her favorite local park last Sunday while the sun was shining and the air was still warm.

She said it was about time she got to do something fun.

She ran around a lot…

…while I noticed all the subtle colors.

Despite today’s weather we are only beginning the fall season, and haven’t reached our peak color yet.

Still, if you look you’ll see beautiful soft color everywhere.

Katie says…Hurry up Mom!  Geeze I have to wait for you all the time!

Coming baby-girl, Mama’s coming.

 


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Riley's mailbox search

A long time ago, way back in August, while Reilly went for a walk around his neighborhood  he  noticed the fancy mailboxes there.  He and his Mom suggested we all look around and see what kind of pretty or interesting or unique mailboxes we just might have near us.

Well, lots of time has passed, but I’ve been keeping this challenge in the back of my mind.  Mostly around here we have pretty simple mailboxes out on posts by the side of the road, nothing fancy, nothing pretty, nothing remotely interesting.  Or so I thought.

Today while driving to see if I could find a competitive photo for Scott’s photo challenge  I decided to keep my eyes open for mailboxes too.  Look what I found!

Down one of the dirt roads that I used to run is this mailbox, advertising the kind of person that lives there.  I think this person just might be pretty handy to know.

And on another road I drive everyday is someone longing to be near the sea.

Most of our mailboxes are just, well, regular mailboxes.  Though lined up like this I think they look pretty interesting.

But my favorite is this one, made out of patio pavers with a top that lights up at night.   It’s something they built this summer and I’ve been admiring it for weeks.

I’m pretty happy with the mailboxes I found in a single morning.   And even though there are some fun mailboxes out there, I think I’ll keep our simple brown one.  It works just fine.

Katie’s waiting for some mail.

 


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Michigan Renaissance Festival plus a Katie-girl

Sunday Katie and I got word that a friend of ours was playing her fiddle at the Michigan Renaissance Festival which coincidentally is right up the road from our house.  And since we weren’t doing anything in particular we decided to head on over there and see what was happening.

It was just Katie and I and a few thousand of our closest friends.

Many of which were dressed in some pretty strange attire.

There was lots of music,

…and puppet and magic acts.

People watching was the name of the game.

You never knew what you’d see next.

Katie got admired by sheltie lovers and children.  She mostly let everyone pet her.  Often I’d see a longing in a pair of eyes and smile encouragement.  Katie seemed to know when someone really needed a Sheltie fix.

She was interested in everything.   The weirder the better.

Mostly though she had her nose to the ground, looking for scraps of the turkey legs they sold, or potato chips, hamburgers and such.  She was quite annoyed when I’d drag her away from the best stuff.

She didn’t much like the kids rides, too much noise, too much movement.

And she wasn’t too interested in meeting other dogs, though on our way out she did meet a friendly basset hound.

It was a long way back to the car and when we finally got there she was glad to rest a bit before our short drive home.  Is that our car Mom?  Finally?

Tonight she’s dreaming of turkey legs, men in tights and women with pushup bras.  I swear.

Katie says: “When I said I needed an adventure I sort of thought we’d just go to the park Mom, not some weird place with noise and strange people and crazy smells…but I’m a brave girl and handled it all!  Didn’t I!”

Yes baby girl, you did.


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Kind of at loose ends

I have nothing to talk about.  I’m at loose ends.  I’m doing laundry, cooking for the week, vacuuming.  Nothing you’d want to read about.  Husband is off working on his brother’s garage, so I have the house to myself.  Perhaps I will go sit on the deck and hope the carpet cleans itself.

Katie is voting for an adventure, but unless she learns how to make beds or dust she’s not going to earn one.  We’ll see.  I remember what that used to mean when my Mom said it to me.

 

We’ll see.


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Katie says

Katie here.  Mom says I can talk today on her blog, cause she’s too tired.  I’ve been keeping her busy today and I think she needs a nap.  It’s her own darn fault anyway.

I’ve been waiting and waiting for Mom and Daddy to pay attention to me.  First they’re all busy with work, then we get company, then Daddy goes off to work on some project and Mom works late every night at work and I have to spend all day every day alone.  This is not what I signed up for when I adopted them.

So when they do come home I’m all about me.  Me me me me me.  And I want to play with  my rabbit and my froggy and my lambie and my squirrel and my ball and…well you know.  But they don’t want to play so much.  They say things like ‘Go lie down’ and ‘Katie! Stop biting my feet!’ and ‘NO BARK!’ and other nonsense.  I just want to play.  Gee.  What’s a doggie to do.

Well I guess this weekend I made my Mom feel bad, so Friday night she set up the tent and we got to go camping!  I love to camp in our back yard.  Last night I was such a good girl and didn’t bark at anything.  Not even the funny noises and smells.  I was just so good and let Mom sleep all the way until 5:30 this morning!

Then she had to go to work.  I was sad.  But she came home in the middle of the afternoon and  guess what?  WE GOT TO GO TO MY PARK!  I would have been happy just to stay there, but nooooo.  Mom wanted to go to HER favorite park which is almost a half hour away!  Since when is it all about HER?

But I humored her and we sat by the lake and watched the geese and she read a book.  I was a good girl and sat by her feet while I watched kids fish and that goose swim around out there.  I didn’t bark at anything!  I was just glad to be out near a lake with my Mom.

So that’s the story so far this weekend.  I think we’re going to camp out again tonight!  I can’t wait.  As soon as it gets dark I’m going to go over to the back door and whine like I did last night.  It works.  She’ll go to bed early just to make me happy.  You wait and see.

I’ve got my Mom figured out.