Friday Evening, October 9
Shortly after 4:30 PM we heard wind and saw leaves blowing everywhere.
I was concerned that our trees were going to loose all their leaves before the beautiful fall colors arrived. But you will notice in future posts that we still had plenty of leaves during the height of autumn colors.
It was a quick-moving storm with little rain, and there were only a few small branches on the ground.
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Grandma and Grandpa were in their “glory” when we discovered that the four youngest boys in our lives were coming to stay for the evening.
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Our great-grandson, Anthony, wandered around and enjoyed our toys for quite awhile – until he walked by the door that his mother and gone through earlier in the evening. The result was a short meltdown.
I took him outside for a walk to distract him, and then turned on the BABY Channel to see if that occupied his mind. It did – for one hour! 🙂 He loved all the colors, counting, and little person activity – and Great-grandpa loved the cuddling.
Jesse
Meanwhile our three youngest grandchildren enjoyed root beer floats and taking turns racing cars on the Xbox in the man cave.
Jared and Ian
Their dads were on a spiritual camping journey in the Adirondacks with several other men – most from our church – and their moms were having an evening together.
Boys fascinate me! Sometime after 8:00 PM the three oldest decided they were hungry for pancakes. 🙂 Thankfully, I had some ready-made ones in the freezer. They were also a hit with Anthony. He kept using his baby sign-language to tell me he wanted “more”.
Anthony’s local grandma came for him at bedtime. It’s nice that those grandparents, and Nate, Abby, and Anthony live less than two miles from us.
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A few days later – Thursday, October 15 – when the evening sun was shining on our trees, and the neighbor had just created some very large bales, I went outside to look for some photo ops.
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No, that is not a real deer, but a target the guys use before hunting.
I was glad I got these pictures, because the bales were picked up and taken to a storage area sometimes during the night. They were in the field for only a few hours.
I love pretty fall evenings.