HOW CUTE IS THIS LITTLE GUY...!!!!!

Right now it is raining like crazy...it's 11:12PM and I'm scheduled to fly to St.Paul tomorrow AM to watch Paddy and Declan while Katie and Pat go to the ND/BC game in South Bend...I'm pretty sure I'll have more fun...

INDIAN SUMMER

Beautiful weather....in the 60's for the past two days...the autumnal colors have exploded in splender...lots of fun last week...with my sis Deb and my daughter Kate and her little guys Paddy and Declan...we all got to visit with Aunt Maura too!

FORTY YEARS....MARITAL BLISS

What more can I say.....bliss in the kitchen....

GRASS....THE GREEN KIND

A photo taken by Audrey of Mia's soccer game today....not much action but lots of grass....the green kind. Tonight at dinner, with Kate, Sandra, Debbie, Kevin and me, I said to my husband Kevin of 40 years...."I can't wait until tomorrow to give you your gift....so I'll give it tonight..." His reply: "Debbie? I've waited 40 years for this!"...enough of grass and gifts...

ALMOST TOO TIRED TO POST...

WHEW! Long day....one photo from October 14 posted Oct 15...opps 16....times flies...need sleep...zzzzzzz

CABLES ARE NECESSARY...

I did take a picture for today. One of Audrey and Quinn at their sandbox. But I left the camera cable in Wheaton so I can't upload the picture to my computer and then onto the blog. Thus the title of today's post...

Tonight I attended a lecture at the Siena Center in River Forest. Tonight's lecture in the Envisioning Grace: The Sacramental Imagination in Literature and Film Series was "Irony and Mystery: Writers of the South" - Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Allen Tate. Much of the lecture rolled over me like misty fog...my brain was on hold...I need to get more sleep.

PONDERINGS....

One year ago today Grandpa Frank left this life for his new life in heaven...it doesn't seem to have been a full year already...but then time has a strange way of seeming to be forever and then just a few seconds ago...like the seasons as I grow older - they're here and gone....

Now it's pumpkins and Halloween time...houses are festooned with ghosts and goblins, witches, and all sorts of spooky things...and there's snow in St.Paul, MN...!!!

So here's my picture of the day...fake pumpkins and gourds on my dining room table...well, at least it looks autumnal..

And today is Columbus Day...poor Chris...his name is mud ...we all think he's a bad guy now...didn't really "discover" America and was a really nasty S.O.B. to the native Indians....pretty soon they might get rid of having us all (schools and such) have the day off...wouldn't that be sad?

SOMETHING NEW.....SORT OF

So I was blog hoping or cruising or whatever it's called and I came across this blogger who has decided to post a photo a day, for 365 days, along with some ruminations...(easier than trying a new Julia Childs recipe every day for 365 days) so....hmmm seems interesting (the photos not the recipes since I am perhaps the least adept cook in the family)so I thought I'd try the photo bit....with a few thoughts...

Here's my first digital photo...an outside plant now inside...the weather has turned cold, the summer flowers are shriveled and deceased....people are cleaning up their gardens preparing the beds for winter...we moved the porch furniture to one side, brought in the porch table, moved the big round log holder to the porch and filled it with wood for the fireplace...

THE ELONGATED STUMP...or the end of the big tree

Yikes! The big tree is gone and more of the trunk stump is standing then I expected. It looks weird. Any suggestions for possible camouflague techniques? The Marren's said the good news is the tree is gone and they don't have to worry about giant limbs falling on their house during violent storms. The bad news is that they still don't have a lake view from their second floor northside windows.

I think the only people that worried about giant limbs falling on the houses were Marge Marren and me. Crushing our house when no one was inside might have been a good thing (then we would have to build a BRAND NEW house!!!) but if people were inside - that would have been a VERY bad thing...and on the bright side....LOTS OF SUN will be in the back yard. Update on the porch - the permits have been obtained, the builder, architect and carpenters were there yesterday...construction is set to start sometime before winter sets in...Wisconsin time...