fall

It's been an interesting fall. It's already November 10, and we have been having mild weather all the way through. I don't even think we've dipped below freezing, although we've almost just. It's been averaging around 50 during the day. And it hasn't been raining. We had that one or two weeks of off and on again rain about a month and a half ago, and then that's been it.

But it has been nice that way. We've been able to get more done (especially on our garage remodel), and it's been so wonderfully crisp and pleasant. I think that it's helped the fall colors to extend. I keep my windows open in my room a lot, to enjoy it all.

Today, I kept hearing noises outside my window, and I thought someone was walking around out there. Then I realized that it was the sound of the walnut leaves falling on the ground and the car. It was so loud, I could hear it through the closed window. I opened my window up to be able to enjoy "fall" better. The instant I opened the window, the wonderful smell of nature, outside, and fall wafted in. Heavenly.

Right now, both my windows are open, because it's raining very nicely. I can't get enough of rain, the sound of it, the feel of it, the smell of it. And of course I live in Wenatchee, with 9 inches of rain a year! :-p

At this moment, it's 56 degrees in my room, and 45 outside.

I'm nice and snuggly warm, with my new fuzzy blanky sent to me from my friend Mandolynn - I can't help but show a picture, it's what this time of year is all about!!!






Ha! I just published this log, and then saw that the apples on the blanky match the apples on my border to the right.....perfect! Lol.

more rain

I'm laying here right now listening to the rain. I've opened both my big windows in my bedroom, and I'm just soaking in the fall weather. It makes me feel very good.

fall rain

Here's my log in Cheers:

Oh, YAY! :-) :-) :-)

I kept hearing this funny noise, and I couldn't figure it out. Then the light dawned and I checked it out. It's raining! I went and stood in it for a while. :wub: I can't remember the last time it rained, it must be about 2 or 3 months, now. :-p ~~~'

-happy dance-

red moon

I heard something about the moon eclipse in Cheers, but didn't really know the details. Good ol' Dad called me today and let me know the times that it would be at. I remember around 1am or so, but then forgot of course. Fortunately, Kitty mentioned watching it in Cheers and I read that at about 3am which was exactly the right time.

I ran outside quickly and caught it right when the last sliver of white was disappearing from the bottom, and the rest was this deep red, like the moon had turned into mars! I ran back and woke up All41 and dragged him out to the porch. I'm wondering if he'll remember anything tomorrow, because he was saying things that didn't make any sense to me at all. :-p He looked, turned around, and went right back to bed. Lol, poor guy is tuckered from work tonight.

Then I thought of trying to capture it a bit, even though I didn't think it was possible for me to do. I got the camera and tried a couple freehand, which were a bit wobbly. I remembered that All41 had shown me once how I could sort of use one of our tripods for something else for this camera, in a poor way. I brought it out and couldn't figure how it was supposed attach, so I just put the camera on top of it to at least help steady my hands and took a few pictures. I used a dark setting to help keep down the wobbly affect, then lightened it a tiny bit with photoshop afterwards.

I know that these are woeful attempts, especially after looking at all the beautiful shots on flickr already, but they're mine and I'm glad that I did it.

worship

All41 dragged me out to the veggie garden for worship with the family. I've been very out of it today because of going to church yesterday, so I really didn't want to. But it's our last free night of summer before school starts for the kids tomorrow.

Oh my goodness! The Interlaken are just about perfect, and I found this ginormous cluster of grapes that were so wonderful. I could barely get my fingers around each grape to pick it from the cluster because they were so squished together in their bounty. I inhaled the whole thing and promptly got a tummy ache. :-p This is the first year that we've had grapes off the Interlaken vine, and I was surprised to find that they taste very much like Concords. Little green seedless Concords. Interesting. I was happy because the vine that we got from the neighbour's is a little green grape as well and I was worried that they were the same variety. But those taste more like normal green grapes.

We had a nice worship and dedication. I was having a tough time, it was difficult to walk all the way to the garden and I wasn't looking forward to going back. I could barely keep my seat still from the pain of sitting. But then, towards the end of the worship I had this moment. I was cuddling Jack and we were singing worship songs acapella. I was overwhelmed by a clear small moment that seemed to last much longer - like a movie slowed down for clarity and then revved up again - of loud purring, a dusty kitty smell, a cool breeze through the desert garden, and my family sweetly harmonizing "Create in Me a Clean Heart". Wow. These are the moments to live for.

the girls in the morning

All41 took some pictures of the girls asleep in the lawn this morning. You can see Thom (the pictures last night were of Jack) peeking out from their blankets.

beneath the sky

Water Lily's had her friend over for a couple days. Tonight they decided they wanted to sleep on the lawn.



Our newest kitty has been freaking out, throwing himself against the window trying to get in and yelling until he's hoarse. He's so happy that the girls are out there. You can see him in most of these pictures, his eyes glow.








The kitty's in between the girl's faces.



He is sooo squished, and in total heaven.




The temperature's about 65 degrees tonight, a bit breezy and cloudy. But I was surprised at how well I could see without a light. I gave my flashlight to the kids and walked back to the house without it.