Today, the kids and I made pumpkin cream cheese muffins and then I took some photos. Yay, autumnal-type activities!


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This is our neighbour's tree, but I am in love with the way autumn just descends upon it. The King of Trees generally only turns varying shades of gold. This one is like a rainbow.


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• I have a video of Abi "reading" to Sebastian that I really want to post, but the file is too huge, so I have to get Scott to compress it or convert it to a flv(?) file or some such business. Anyway, it is the sweetest thing, because he just looks at her with the biggest smile on his face. He does that a lot lately, sometimes even bursts out ( Read more... )

"Alone until she dies, Bessie Bighead, hired help, born in the workhouse, smelling of the cowshed, snores bass and gruff on a couch of straw in a loft in Salt Lake Farm and picks a posy of daisies in Sunday Meadow to put on the grave of Gomer Owen who kissed her once by the pig-sty when she wasn't looking and never kissed her again although she was ( Read more... )

I love Phil Booth’s horoscopes.

Scorpio (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) Only fear itself has the power to rob you of the most precious gift of all - the ability to be happy. There is nothing really that you should be afraid of. Speaking of things I love, today marks the first day of fall. Makes me want to wear long sleeves and drink hot apple cider, despite ( Read more... )

I had to step out into the rainy cold today to pick up some things from the grocery store, which meant that I had to back out of The Dreaded Gate. Actually, I probably could have got Scott to do it for me, but I thought it was time that I gave it a shot. I took my time, but I did it and, I'm happy to report, without crashing into/scraping against ( Read more... )