Last weekend was the epitome of a great fall weekend. The weather was perfect, sunny and warm, but not too warm. We had a week of sunny weather and the colors started to pop.
We started out on Saturday morning going to my grandson's soccer game. Again, it was a beautiful day.
Nickel played a great game and he scored 2 goals. He's the one in the white t-shirt holding the gold ball.
We went to lunch with Christine's family and then went to meet Daddy and Nicole at a farm for a real fall experience.
I'm not sure what she was thinking when I took this picture. The bell is in the middle of the corn maze and everyone rings the bell when they get there. She was pretty silly that day.
She and her Daddy would run ahead of Nicole and I. She likes to pretend she is running away from us, but never getting so far away that she couldn't see me.
We made it out of the corn maze!
Nice picture of Brian and Nicole.
Of course, A. joined them.
They enjoyed running around the farm. You can see the corn maze just behind the barn. The chickens came by and the kids chased them around the farm. The pigs are just next to the barn, but they were sleeping when we went to see them.
She wanted to go down to the little barn and play with the vehicles. Of course, she lined them up. She was pretty proud to show me that.
It started to cool off and cloud up, and it was time to go home.
It rained most of this week. I drove all around Leelanau County last week, and the trees were colorful, just beautiful. Monday morning was still sunny, and I took a couple of pictures at the marina.
We stayed home today, and it has been cloudy and rainy all day. The sun peeked out for a short time and I took this picture of my trees in the front yard.
We went for a short walk while the sun was out, but it started to rain again while we were walking, so we scooted back home. That's ok, staying home all day was a good thing as I was able to get caught up on lots of computer work that I got behind on.
Next week is supposed to be rainy every day, and they even put the dreaded word "snow" in the forecast a few nights. We are putting a extra blankets on our beds and will undoubtedly wear winter coats next week. It's that time of year again!
I'm sitting here at the table with my iPad while A. is still sleeping, catching up on some blogs I like to follow. One talked about not letting addictions take over your life. I got to thinking about what are my addictions. I can think of two that are right up there for me. One is food. I'm not talking about overeating enough to make me obese, I'm not that. I am consistently about 20 lbs. over my ideal weight. I'm talking about how, at the end of the day, what relaxes me and makes me feel good. So if I have anything sweet or unhealthy in the house, I go for that. Lately I have been pretty good about keeping that stuff out of the house. But we made cupcakes yesterday, so I'm guessing today it is going to be hard to keep away from them. And, when grocery shopping the other night, I picked up a couple of bags of Halloween candy. I try to trick myself and put them in places that are not right out in the open, hoping to keep from eating the entire bag in one sitting. We'll see how that works this week.
The second addiction I have is watching tv. I LOVE to have the tv on all day long. I'll watch just about anything, from Duck Dynasty to Storage Wars to Dateline & 20/20 to old movies on TCM. I watched a Molly Ringwald marathon this week, Singing in the Rain, & Something's Gotta Give.
Sometimes I'm good at having the tv on in the background and going about my stuff, cleaning up the kitchen, laundry, etc. But if I have on HLN and they are doing some wonderful upgrading of someone's house or yard, I feel the need to watch it as I might learn something very important that I can use when I upgrade my own house (when that will be I don't know). But I feel I need to store this information so I have it in my head when I need it.
I'm sure all this background noise I need, including the radio, means I have a hard time being quiet, which leads to me not facing my inner thoughts. I don't know, maybe I'll find out.
I made an important goal for today. I'm planning to stay in the house all day today so I can catch up on so much stuff. I'm planning to spend the day without the tv on. I don't know if I can convince A. to achieve this goal with me, but I'm thinking if I don't mention turning on the tv, she may not ask. This is a big deal for me, so wish me luck!
