Last Sunday, October 16, Beckie, Steve, and I got to attend a choir concert that Emily was singing in. It was held in a high school auditorium close to us and it was quite delightful! Plus, we got to see all the Southerlands!
Then, on Monday, the weather turned COLD. And, with the wind chill, it was REALLY COLD! Steve and I had planned to go camping that night but the thought of getting up at 2:00 am to walk to the bathroom was just not appealing. So, instead, that afternoon, we just drove down to St. Francois State Park (less than an hour's drive south of us) where we had planned to camp and we checked out the campsites to pin down some good ones (close to the bathrooms) when we actually DO camp there and we took a small hike on one of the trails and enjoyed the beautiful autumn color. We left the dogs at home because, honestly, they are not hikers.
some close-ups of flowers along the trail....
Early in the week, I picked all of the tomatoes because we had frost which basically ended the growing season. No more zinnias to adorn my bathroom window sill. And, I picked the rose buds so they could last a little longer indoors.
Wednesday, Elizabeth Crippen came into town. She needed to go to IKEA and I was very happy to go along (LOVE that place!). She stayed for dinner, two Scrabble games, and then spent the night. It was a good visit.\
For the last week or so, I have been sewing/making candy corn pillows and fabric pumpkins. I got all the fabric from recycled items I got from the Goodwill Outlet. It has been a fun project. Look at the size of that bag of stuffing!
Friday was a rather wild day. Four things needed to happen that day: I was to be the driver for Sam Carpintero who had outpatient surgery to have a ganglion cyst removed from her wrist, I had a one-hour cello/violin lesson with a student, I needed to go to pottery, and we had an electrician scheduled to come and work on a couple of projects. Happily, everything got accomplished. It was a happy thing to have the electrician come. We wanted him to create two switches in both of the upstairs bathrooms to separate the light from the exhaust fan. The fan is so noisy and not always needed when one is in the bathroom. Plus, we had a live wire in the ground outside next to the southwest corner of our deck - which is dangerous! It is incredible that I never shocked myself while planting things around it and that Linus didn't shock himself when he would occasionally pee on those plants. I never knew it was there until one day last summer when I was watering the area, I noticed a line of smoke coming up from the ground! When I went to investigate, THAT is when I got a shock. The electrician suspected it might have been for a security light sometime in the past and he just turned the juice off. While in that process, he discovered that some of the clips in the circuit breaker downstairs were loose so he fixed that problem. Wow, we could have had an electrical fire due to the shoddy workmanship on that breaker! So, while the electrician was not really cheap, it is SO nice to have a nice quiet bathroom now and to have peace of mind.
Saturday morning, Steve and I made apple jelly and raspberry jam! Some of the apple juice came from Steven and Tamara's crabapple tree and the raspberries were from a 10 for $10 deal at Schnucks. Then, we had the sister missionaries over for dinner (plus Sam). Turns out that Sister Bronson is good friends with a young man who was a missionary in Phoenix while we were there (Elder Robert Jensen). So, we had a photo taken for her to send to him.
We watched two movies this past week: White Nights on Friday and Cyrano on Saturday. I am not sure what caused Steve and I to remember White Nights, which came out in 1985, but we wanted to see it again. Watching Baryishnakov and Hines dance was just a treat. Cyrano was the 2021 film with Peter Dinklage (the "angry elf" from Elf). It was a musical, which I was not expecting, and very beautifully done. It was also quite sad. I got both DVDs from the library. Yay public libraries!
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