The rain stopped just before we went out to trick or treat. So finally we had a Halloween where we weren’t wet and freezing and huddling into our winter coats. Claire was shy at the beginning. Bea got overheated in her octopus costume. But by the end they were pros – doing more trick or…

The octopus features suction cups on the underside of her arms. And that’s a rainbow owl, of course. Happy Halloween!

All that AND Brian completed his 10th marathon. See him there below with the black shirt on? Ha.

Well my gardening season is wrapping up. I still have carrots, beets and swiss chard in the ground. Also, the tomato plants are straggly, but they keep producing. And the herbs are looking mostly good. Good ol’ sage always keeps going until Thanksgiving. Yum. It was a good year for my garden – only the…

In October I make Halloween costumes. This year I have a brand new sewing machine to use. I had been putting off buying one for a long time. I knew I wanted to upgrade but I didn’t know exactly what I wanted. I finally came across a mechanical Janome machine and the reviews caught my…

A wispy spider web and the red moon lunar eclipse.