We’ve been soaking up that last warm sunny days of the year and doing all the things that you can only do in Fall. I’ve also been appreciating indoor plumbing this week. We couldn’t flush or run any water down our drains from Thursday to Monday last week. Our sewer line was plugged with roots…

Mom came last weekend and I finally got around to looking through the photos today. We had fun with grandma and I was so glad she was here… but it wasn’t our best weekend ever. Bea was getting over a flu bug and then I got it. So I spent most of Sunday in bed…

After preschool the other day we were walking behind a woman and her son. Claire looked at the woman't shoes – they were short black boots with heels. She said in her loudest voice "Those are the shoes that witches wear."

I’m so thankful for the string of beautiful weekends we’ve had. Last weekend we went up to Wisconsin, again, to get our pumpkins and to go for a little hike. I’ve never picked pumpkins from a field – that was fun.  After getting just the right pumpkins we went to the New Munster Wildlife Area…

Thank you for reading my blog, now here are a bunch of photos from a bog.

Brian is the purported cheese lover around here, but I too find myself missing the good cheese we had at our old home.  We’re still enjoying some of the cheese that Brian smuggled. Even the packaging makes me happy. We can get some Swiss cheese here – I spotted this big round of cheese waiting…

Hello turtle – thanks for posing for me.

I’m sitting here on my non-couch* feeling happy because a few minutes ago I was in the bathroom turning the water on and off, on and off, on and off… with our NEW FAUCETS! Yeah we have progress. Each little bit of progress urges me on to get busy and finish up the whole thing.…