It’s been a good month – glorious weather and fun times. Hopefully November will be equally nice.

It was a nice trip. We didn’t leave until Monday doe to Luke having strep throat, and stayed a day later than planned, until Sunday. The weather was perfect and the leaves were beginning to change.

Life continues to be busy.

Luke has started kindergarten. It has been quite an adjustment. He has homework(!), a rather exacting teacher, and more kids in his class. He is also running cross country now. I believe he has had for races now. He enjoys it, but doesn’t seem to have much sense of urgency. He continues to make new friends at school and church, helps me around the house and yard, and is getting back into puzzles.

The house is coming along slowly. We have replaced windows and doors, patched flooring, added trim, and got most of the deck done. We need to pick out paint and roof colors now. Actually “we” needed to pick them out a while ago. Most of the property is in pretty good shape. We have lots of logs strewn about, but I have plans for them. I need to grind stumps, but am trying to find a big enough machine. Once the weather cools and the snakes go away I will work on the tree lines to clear them up.

A week from tomorrow we will head to Michigan for fall break. Luke is pretty excited and it should be a fun trip. The weather has cooled a bit here, and it will be even chillier up there. There are lots of pears and apples to pick, but unfortunately no pumpkins.

Not much else is going on. I will try to update this more regularly.