Fall Clean-Up

Here we are again...doing yard work!!! Sometimes seems like that is all we do. Oh Well...that's the price you pay to live in the country...we are a country family...there is just too much going on at any one time here on Cottonwood Creek. Kids yelling (no matter how old they are) dogs barking...mom yelling out orders...and Mister "M" overseeing it all- or watching rather. Here is what we started off with on Sunday morning.

Pumpkins still needed carving...Gabe and I have a plan...

The whole family picks up sticks, I use the blower on the leaves shooting them out into the path of Gabe on the mower, and Mister "M" comes back when we are all finished and picks the leaves up.

Here is how Claire picks up sticks...although who can blame her...can anyone, young at heart, ignore a big pile of leaves in the Fall?

Teddy needed some encouragement.

Gabe on the tractor

Here is Mister "M" perched high up above overseeing and oh yea...cleaning out the gutters...

Claire and I were done with our jobs early so we went for a walk back in the woods......Look at the size of this tree...

A hole in the tree

After all the yard work was finished, we carved pumpkins. This is what Gabe came up with... We got it out of the "Extreme Pumpkins" book written by Tom Nardone, here is a link to the web site http://www.extremepumpkins.com/...it will crack you up if you are into that kind of twisted humor...

Last but not least, here is Claire on Halloween..She was out and about with a group of her friends. Gabe went out with his friends...It was the first Halloween in 17 years that Mister "M" and I could actually plan to do what we wanted...we went out to dinner and then waited for the candy to roll in...I kinda like Halloween on our terms...

Hope your weekend was as festive and fun! Until next time-blessings on all

Mary