It's beginning to look a lot like . . .

But before we get to that, I suppose you want to know about our Thanksgiving.

We did something new this year. Something that we (Johno and I as a married couple) have never done before. We stayed home for Thanksgiving - and did not invite anyone over. It was just the three of us. We had a lovely day. It was relaxing, restful, quiet and really quite nice. We had lamb, spinach pie, and yams for an early dinner. Knowing that we would need a reason to get out of the house for a little while I volunteered to feed the animals at the farm that evening. After we returned home we enjoyed some pumpkin cheesecake. It was so nice.

I was going to show you a picture of the wreath that Odin and I made this evening. But it seems that I have reached my photo size limit on this site. I shall have to look into that before I add more images.

Artwork

Odin made this tonight. It is a "grandson flower"

Fun on the Farm

The farm (where I spend most of my "free" time) is holding a Holiday Farm Festival fundraiser the second Saturday in December. I volunteered to do photos on site with proceeds staying on the farm. I am pretty excited about the event and it is giving me loads of opportunities to play around with my camera. Last week I did a few test pictures of a few of the horses. I had a ton of fun with them. The horses, while not having the time of their lives, were very tolerant.

Zephyr was very curious about the camera

Odin fun day

For us Saturday was all about kiddo fun time. We went to the grand opening of the new children's museum (it was fabulous!). Then a birthday party at an indoor playground. Then we came home and played int he leaves! It was all very tiring and noisy but fun, fun, fun!

Halloween

Thought I'd keep you waiting to hear about Halloween. I figured this way it wouldn't get lost in the shuffle of everyone else's kiddo and pumpkin pictures.. Okay, really I've just been a tad lazy.Yes the costume does look familiar. He was really excited to be a flying squirrel again this year. Next year he tells me he wants to be a Jedi.

Odin carved his own pumpkin this year all by himself. It was his own design too! My pumpkin was extra scary, it was rotting from the top down. I managed to carve it, but by the day of it was nearly impossible to get the mushy, rotten lid off to light the candle. I had to put a few bamboo skewers in the top to support the lid from falling onto the flame!

Weekend Recap

We have had another fun, busy weekend.
For the past few weekends we have been doing farm work. Some friends just bought a new house with about 5 acres and needed a place to put their horses. So one weekend we helped them build fence-line and make a paddock. The next weekend John and Odin went back to start building a shelter for the horses. They had troubles finding the materials on a Saturday so they didn't get a whole lot done. I was at another farm (where I ride) that day clearing blackberry vines, hauling wood chips and dismantling beaver dams.

This weekend was no different. Most of it was spent at the farm building a lean to for one of the horses. Saturday we spent all day mostly in the rain working on the shelter. Odin ran amock on the farm, mostly finding nice juicy mud holes.
Sunday morning we woke up and had some pumpkin cinnamon rolls before carving up our pumpkins. Then it was back to the farm to finish the lean to. We finished just in time to drive our to the beach and do a little clam digging (more on that later!). It was a late night driving home and John and I both noted how much fun we had over the weekend. Good thing too, our friends still need to build their lean to!

Mentos

Ages ago I bought a pack of mint Mentos to make the diet cola geyser. They have been sitting in a drawer waiting. They have been waiting until it was going to rain. You see, we live on a cul de sac and the plan was to do this experiment in the middle of the street. However I did not want everything to be covered in sticky cola mess for a long time. The rain has finally returned to western Wa.  The other evening we pulled the Mentos out of the drawer.

It is super explosive and cool. We had a slight misfire, as the Mentos did not all drop at the same time. Therefore I failed to get an "action picture". Odin was afraid it was going to explode laterally, and  was running away as it went off. I will do this one again for sure! Only next time I will be ready.