With fall and Halloween just around the corner, my family and I spent the weekend in the yard planting bulbs for the spring and decorating the yard for the season.  We had a blast.  We stacked up some bails of straw and put some mums on them and pumpkins too.  It’s way too early to carve any of them so we also put out some plastic Jack-o-Lanterns we have that have lights in them.

I had found an old set of pillow cases that were white, took them apart and made 4 ghosts to fly on a wire between some of the trees in our yard.  They came out really good because we used balloons for the heads and that made the rest of the body flow really good in the wind. 

My husband had put a Boston Butt on the grill and had it cooking on low most of the day while we were in the yard.  It smelled heavenly and I think it made of work even harder to get finished so we could have an early dinner or late lunch.  I had sweet potatoes baking in the oven, put on a jar of green beans I had canned over the summer and also had made macaroni salad last night for today.  It’s always better to let it sit so all the different flavors can blend and make it yummy.  I just hope the rice noodles work as well as regular ones since I can’t have wheat now.

Anyway, we recycled a few old things which only helps the environment, added some flowers for next year to make our environment a little brighter and basically had some good clean fun together as a family.  Nothing beats spending time with the ones you love outdoors and then around the table for a meal to top it all off.

Have you seen those remote control helicopters?  My grandson just got one and he has had an absolute blast with it all day long.  He’s only 4 and can’t fly it very well so his Daddy (who is disabled) spent most of the day trying to help him fly it.  Talk about a little fella getting mad, now he would when his Daddy would try to get it from him to show him how to do something with the remote control.

I tell you what, it was worth every single penny just to see the shear joy on that baby’s face while he was playing with it.  The only thing that got him away from it was food and as soon as he was finished eating, out the door he went.

I was just watching the news and I do believe it’s about time to pull out the darn old jacket.  It’s supposed to be in the upper 40’s in the morning.  That’s getting just a little past chilly if you ask me.  It’s just before down right cold in all reality.  Oh well, what are we to expect with it being October after all?

October is followed by November and that means that Christmas will be here before you know it.  I better quit thinking about it before I get the desire to ‘go shopping’!!!

Did you watch the ‘Dancing with the Stars’ elimination last night?  I did.  I love that show.  Cloris Leachman is absolutely making that show this season.  She might be 82 years old but that lady still has a lot of life in her and she proves it every Monday night.  Ladies like her give the rest of us hope, ya know?  We all hope to be that alive at 82.  Heck most of us just hope to still be alive at all but I think you know what I mean.

I have to admit I was really hoping Cloris would make it at least one more week and no I didn’t vote.  I don’t vote very often on that show but I have a few times I must admit.  I think she was more surprised than I was that she didn’t get voted off.

Well Cloris, you go girl and thanks for the joy you are bringing to the dance floor!!!

My neighbors kids are spoiled absolutely rotten.  They just got one of the neatest wooden swing sets I have ever seen.  Really the kids are great kids and I didn’t mean to imply they weren’t good kids.  If my kids were still small, I would have loved to have gotten them a swing set like the one the neighbors got too.

Well I do have grand babies that visit so I still might check into getting one for my yard after all.  There’s nothing I like better than hearing children laughing.  That’s the sweetest sound there is.