Winding Down

It’s been a busy week since we we got home from our fall trip.  Therapy visited the repair shop and it was indeed rodent damage that was causing the problems with the air conditioning.  Seems one of those “oh so cute” ground squirrels chewed a hole in a vacuum hose causing the malfunction.  Had they put the hose in its original location, the cost would have been over $500.  Re-routing the whole thing saved us around $300 so I was happy about that.  Squirrel stew, anyone?

Lots of little chores were taken care of and then we had a couple of grandgirls spend the weekend.  Love the cooler weather as we can bake cookies without worrying about the kitchen getting all heated up.  I finally found a recipe where the sugar cookies actually taste good!!


Emmie is getting into the spirit of the season.







Cailin is very precise with her cookies – and yes, she did dye  her hair red!  I think she looks cute!














 
Saturday morning started with our traditional waffle breakfast.  Cailin loves them with strawberries and whipped cream piled high.

While Emmie just wants the whipped cream (with a little peanut butter underneath).


Then we took them out to the farm just for fun.  OH BOY!!  You can sure tell when there is no Duck game, (it was a bye week for the Ducks) as the 56,000 who are usually at Autzen Stadium all day, were running around all over town.  A good portion of them were at the farm.  This is the first time I have seen parking attendants there!  But we still had a good time.

The girls found some fancy gourds and each got an old fashioned piece of stick candy and I got some raspberries so I was happy.
Of course, the fall colors were everywhere.


And farm faces too.


I think they should put the cut outs in front of this fence so these kids could poke their heads through the holes.  They sure know how to beg for pellets.



Who could resist this face?










We took the girls to Costco and it was packed out too.  Don’t these people have anywhere to go, like a football game??  Oh, I guess not… 
Cailin has informed me that my keyboard is not big enough for her to play on anymore.  Since I always ask for songs from both girls, I may have to buy one that doesn’t run out of keys.  That was our reason for going to Costco, to get some advice from Cailin and Emmie on keyboards.  Cailin pronounced this 76 key instrument sufficient but I think I may wait until they come on sale and go ahead and get a full 88 keys.  Here’s a short 15 second clip of Cailin showing an arrangement of FÜR ELISE that you probably haven’t heard before.  She’s just learning the piece and had some trouble since she could barely reach the keys and she didn’t have her music, but it was fun anyway.


The girls have gone home now and we are taking it easy today.  Last night, as I was sitting in my chair reading, I noticed a glow out the living room windows.  Had to go out and get this shot of what was a prettier sunset than the picture shows.

May all your sunsets be pretty ones and all your sunrises be bright.  Take care all you snowbirds who are getting ready to travel south and stop in and see us if you go down I –5.