Anyone lucky enough to have off today got a treat-the most perfect fall day!  I don’t have the right words to describe the sunlight shining through the rapidly thinning forest canopy or the warm sun, cool shade in the yard or the blazing colors of the trees.  The whole weekend was like this but today just seemed the most blissful. And not just because it was a quiet, everyone got along playing day (though that helps!).  It was a day I couldn’t be inside and if I needed to be I kept stopping to look out the windows to take in what was going on outside.  

Go OWW!

This was a few years ago…but today we had a gorgeous fall day to enjoy a hayride to the corn maze and pumpkin patch.  I didn’t get many pictures.   (Even so, it really did happen!) I will just have to remember the garnet and green leaves, the skeleton guarding the fence, Ollie’s enthusiasm in the maze, Emmy finding a wooly bear, Lily’s perfect pumpkin find and Sam bumping along in the hay.  Spartan apples, too…crunchy and a little tart.  
   

Pine-Richland Rams action shot:

A neighbor told me that the trampoline was the very best investment.  The kids never {ever} tire of the trampoline!  When winter comes, we will be sad…but maybe we don’t have to shut it down?  I don’t know.  Maybe we can jump through all seasons?  Hmmm.

Today’s math included taking a favorite recipe (chocolate chip cookie), halving it and doubling it.  Lily figured it out on her own.  Then she baked a batch (that seems to not have the right amount of baking soda or too much butter…).  We renamed them chocolate chip butter crisps and they are disappearing as quickly as the regular batch does!

Stinkbugs have returned.  We are finding halloween bugs about.  Orange and black one; either long and wing-y or short and spiky.  Wooly caterpillars are on the prowl.  Emmy and I found one on our walk and someone found a baby one on a stick.

Ollie doesn’t know it but we are going to celebrate turning 5 this weekend with the family.  We will be in Birdsboro for a Rock Hollow Woods Halloween and driving home on his actual day so this will be a happy surprise for him!

Art is multiplying!

Here’s our new decoration:

I ran this morning, with jingle bells on, and wasn’t bothered by any bears though I startled the deer.  The kids told me later in the day that Mr. Frank, three doors down and our neighbor who walks Sophie, the teeny tiny dog, saw the bear in his backyard last Thursday.  This is the day it was spotted crossing into our neighborhood so that makes sense.  If bears follow trails like deer, I think we are safe.  He is much closer to the highway and around a large curve in the road from us; Friday a bear was spotted 4 miles away.  No walks down to the creek for a bit…

Trying to master the knitting loom and want to just chill. Tomorrow a reflective post. 

The Halloween decor is up.  The weather inspired us to stay inside today and decorate!  With layers of clothes and socks on-brrr.