Wordless Wednesday

I Heart Faces-week 45 Autumn Beauty

My favorite season and my favorite five year old...

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Happy All Saints Day!

Almighty God,
who hast knit together thine elect
in one communion and fellowship
in the mystical body of Your Son, Christ our Lord:
Give us grace so to follow Your blessed saints
in all virtuous and godly living,
that we may come
to those ineffable joys
that thou hast prepared for those
who unfeignedly love thee;
through the same Jesus Christ our Lord,
who with thee and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth,
one God, in glory everlasting. Amen
Book of Common Prayer, 1979

Happy Halloween

Here's wishing everyone a safe and happy Halloween!

Top 10 lessons learned while camping

#10. When it says 32ft, that's the actual measurement inside the trailer, but what you're hauling is actually 36ft., or more like around 40ft, once you include the tow bars and all 'that' stuff.

#9. You know it really is a BIG trailer when it makes your Suburban look like a Geo Metro.

#8. And along that same train of thought, when a toll gate is labeled 'CARS ONLY', they mean it. (thankfully there wasn't tooo much damage)

#7. It's best to hook up during daylight hours. That way you won't wake your neighbors when the smoke alarms go off at 10pm in your trailer, alerting quite possibly the entire campground that, yes indeed, you are new to this whole 'camper thing'.

#6. It's always good to have the owners operating manual with you the first time out on a trip in your new camper.

#5. 8 miles to the gallon actually is considered good gas milage in some instances.

#4. If your camper is too comfortable, the kids may never go out into the cold (50*) weather to sit by a campfire and roast marshmallows (what kind of whimps are we raising anyway??!?)

#3. It's never good to corner wildlife in the campground shower stalls-- even if your dad tells you it's okay, 'cause someone's bound to get BIT, and it won't be Dad.

#2. It's not always a good idea to let your children run wild all over the campground in the dark playing 'hide and go seek', because you never know, if say the next day, you discover that bears have been roaming in the same vicinity.

aaaannnd

#1 Lesson learned while camping:

It's more dadgum fun than we evah could have imagined!!

Help me Rhonda

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Oktoberfest Edition:

(fyi: The girl won!)

Angel of God

Happy Feast Day of the Guardian Angels everyone!

Happy October!

I love October. Love, love, loooooove it! Mornings are cool, leaves are changing, nature is at it's finest. This morning we took advantage of the weather and headed out to pick APPLES.

Yummy.

Immediately, thoughts of homemade apple sauce, apple pies, apple cakes and apple butter filled my head. The reality that I've never made any of those things--ever--nor have the desire do so, is just now starting to take effect.

Anyhoo, we arrived at the orchard all bright eyed and bushy tailed. After three cups of strong coffee, who wouldn't be? Then we picked out our buckets, loaded them in the wagons and headed for the rows of trees...

Now if I were a brighter bulb in the box, I would have taken note of the SIZE of the buckets they gave us to use and the fact that we were pulling these ginormous buckets in wagons... but my head was just too full of apple dreams and cool October morning air to notice.

Everyone had a great time picking.....

Aaand eating....

to their heart's content.

We headed back to weigh our apple treasure and, well let's just say that even the Duggar family couldn't polish off in a week the amount of apples we picked in mere minutes. Here's the evidence:

If you look reeeeaal close, you'll notice that scale reads right at 25lbs. The sad thing is.... that was just under HALF of what we picked this morning. So yes, we picked over 50lbs of apples!! And just incase inquiring minds wanna know, that comes up to roughly $70 worth of apples. So I suppose I'll have to get over my resistance to only eating yummy apple creations. sigh...

Anyone got any good recipes??

Have a great weekend.

"Now's the time when children's noses
All become as red as roses
And the colour of their faces
Makes me think of orchard places
Where the juicy apples grow,
And tomatoes in a row."
- Katherine Mansfield, Autumn Song