Beautiful Fall Day

Our ride yesterday was beautiful, but cool. We made sure to dress very warm as you can see from the pictures. Tracy had to stop at Dollar General, to get some warmer gloves to put under her thin leather ones and also a stocking hat for her head. I wore the nice camouflaged one that my mother knitted for me. It worked great. I also have a warm headband that can be used in different ways, yesterday I chose to wear it as a neckwarmer.

We were a little disappointed as our trip did not yield much for color. The leaves have not quite turned except on some of the north facing slopes. We hope our ride that is planned for next week will be prettier. The forecast also says that it will be cold. Around the 50's. Last year, on this same ride we were wearing short sleeves and it turned out to be 90 by the end of the day. Yesterday was in the mid-60's. Our faces were cold, by late afternoon it wasn't too bad.

I took a picture of the view from the side of our yard, where you can see that some of the leaves in town have changed, but the ones on the far hillside have not. Also, a couple of the pictures show that we indeed have leaves falling and will soon be raking. I've got one pumpkin in the yard as you can see, but need to get a couple more to add to my decor. If you look closely in the one picture with Brian's truck, you can see that we made a corn shock, from our sweet corn stalks, around the utility pole at the bottom of the driveway. I don't dare put any pumpkins near the end of the driveway though. I'm sure they would disappear and end up smashed on a roadway somewhere. The ones we grew last year, never did. Some people said they would but I think we are far enough back from the road that no one would dare try to get that close to the house.

I also added a nice picture of our motorcycle. It sits there so nice and shiny in our friends driveway. If you look in the background of that one, you will see pine branches laying on the ground. Their back door neighbor was at the top of that tree cutting them off. By the time we got back from our ride, he had the whole tree cut down. It was a very tall old pine tree. Our friends son said that his room would be alot brighter now without the shade of that tree there.

After our long ride we came home exhausted. Today, is cold and rainy. After church and Sunday school it will be a long lazy day inside watching movies with the kids. Ty, I'm sure will be back on the Xbox after I am finished posting this. They just finished off the leftovers in the fridge for lunch. I have a roast in the crockpot for supper and will probably also cook up the squash that I got from Brian's parents' garden. Will probably also have to make something else, as I don't think the kids like squash, except maybe Ty.