October Days

October has been a difficult month.  I have stopped sleeping, I couldn't transition back inside to full time school, I struggled with feeling depressed and in dread of the upcoming Winter, I have just wanted to just be outside and active, the darkening days feel so heavy, and of course, the stresses of the current climate with the state of the world and our church...it has been a burden I haven't been managing very well. 

But life keeps moving forward one step at a time.  The sun still rises and sets and the seasons are still changing...

 

Lots of foggy mornings.

The spiders are active.

The communal poop pile in the mist.

The sky continues to be amazing...


The frost set in so I picked the last of the Autumn flowers




Every day life:
There was still laundry.

I still shopped online for deals and found new beanbag chairs.

I ordered more yarn for a new project.

My phone was still used without me knowing LOL.

Children still made "silly" decisions like walking through the house with goat poop mud shoes and then had to scrub the carpet.

The barn was worked on with Sawyer's friend Benjamin.

I sent pictures to Phil of me freezing.

I fixed the front border bed by adding lots of new dirt and leveling out the bed, transplanting and planting, and mulching.  I still have about 1/4 of the bed left to do but this is a project I have been wanting to finish since Spring.




We got kitties!!!  Fergus (black stripe and white) and Farley (orange and white).  They are so playful (and destructive!) 








We have had to move homechurch inside so we can no longer host because our place is too small.  

The kids were so excited to play at the Rawie's after service and ride in their jeep/4-wheeler/golf cart thing!  They love adventures and we are thankful that they can enjoy fun and "normal".






Still harvesting the last of the produce from the garden. 

The frost has killed nearly everything.  I am so sad, I am not ready for Winter!!

We experimented with growing loofa this year.  They were too green to harvest but the frost made it necessary.  So, we attempted to dry out the "sponge".  

Watching how to videos. 

That doesn't look right...


Well, they sort of dried out.

With homechurching and the new connections that we are making, Sawyer has found a friendship group to be part of.  It has been quite the transition for me having him gone and spending his weekends with friends playing card games, going on outings, and even having a skeet shoot with dinner and a movie here.  



I snuck pictures LOL!

Still trying to adjust to hosting and feeding a big group.  I suppose I am getting used to it after 5 months of practice. 

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