Random Stuff

Last week Jason and I celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary. We went on a dinner cruise on the Willamette River. It was really fun and the food was great! Here's a view of the Portland skyline from the boat.

Here's a picture I took this morning. It reminds me of Halloween.
Not a whole lot else has been going on here. We are just enjoying the beginning of our favorite season, "Septober" as Jason calls it. The rains come back, the weather gets cooler, and I get in the mood to sew and cook. I'll be sharing my projects with you as they are finished.
I have also been adding more content to my other blog Chickabloom.com. Check it out if you are so inclined.

Bountiful Harvest

This is our garden-a patch of dirt in a weed field that we covered with landscape fabric, cut holes, and planted seeds. We planted mostly pumpkins plus a couple of zucchini plants.
The problem is that we don't go out to the garden very often and the zucchini grow too fast.
Who's going to eat zucchini that big? No one. I had to come up with another use for the biggest one.
A flower arrangement celebrating the bountiful harvest (of zucchinis).
We also encountered another problem in the garden after neglecting it for a while. It was like a scary scene from a b-movie called, "Attack of the Monster Slug."
These stupid banana slugs are everywhere in the garden and find the Baby Boo pumpkins particularly tasty. Many ended up on our neighbor's shed roof left to fry. The rest were killed by something called "Slug Death". I'm hoping we'll get some pumpkins out of the garden before they rot or are eaten!

First Day of School

No more lazy days of summer-staying up all night and sleeping all day. School has started and we're back to the old grind. I have begun the over 500 trips to the bus stop that I will make this year. It feels like a part time job getting everyone off to school. They each leave roughly an hour apart.
You can probably hear Hiram saying, "I'm going to miss the bus on the first day of school, MOM" as you look at the picture.Ethan is planning on this year to being as bad as the last. There's been no improvement in attitude. He did incorporate some pops of color in his black/grey wardrobe this school year.

Caleb has encountered his "worst case scenario"-he didn't get the teacher he wanted and his old girlfriend is in his class. I think his teachers are really nice. He has two teachers and 50 kids in his class. He's looking forward to being on the safety patrol this year. Caleb heard on TV that aliens are going to invade next June, so he's relieved that he won't have to go to middle school.


Hooray for school!