Which brings me to one of the best parts of my week!
What's up with nature
My poor hubs was feeling pretty down in the dumps a couple of weeks ago. I don't know about you guys, but when someone I love is feeling blue, I want to do everything I can to make them feel better. I decided for my hubs, the best thing for him was to make sure we got outside and walked/hiked/biked every day, especially now that nature is is so lovely. And you know, it's worked so well for him! He's like a brand new man, happy and lighthearted (just a thought for anyone else feeling blue this time of year).So what we decided to do last weekend was to take our bikes to Allegheny State Park. They have amazing bike trails all through the park, which is humongous! We spent at least three hours exploring the place. It was so nice.
The park is in what the county calls the Enchanted Mountains. It certainly seemed enchanted last weekend.
It was pretty cloudy at first, but the sky turned blue for our ride back to the car.
We got to ride through this cool bridge on the way out, but on the way back, it was closed because someone was getting their wedding pictures on it.
And there we are!
I also had to stop to take a picture of this cute woolly bear. I've never seen one like that. It only had black on its head! Hubs said that the other ones he saw were mostly red too. Does everyone around the country try to predict the winter with woolly bears, or are we the only crazy ones?
What's up with plastic canvas
Well, I had planned on posting the apple coaster as the free pattern this week, but I decided I needed to make a ghost wind sock!
So keep your eye out for the pattern for this cutie!
What's up with sewing
So I said I want to keep working on my shirts and get them all sewn before cold weather really gets here. But... actually, I'm easily distracted! So instead, I decided to start sewing together a cool flannel quilt kit I got at the Erie quilt show.
It's really simple, just squares, so I figured it would be a great way to get to know my new sewing machine.
What's up with everything else
One way that I knew my hubs is feeling better is that he actually got motivated and started on working on a home improvement project by himself! Our upstairs hall has been unfinished for a long while now. It needs to be painted, and then we're going to replace the floor. And he got up and started painting on Sunday! How cool!
We got the trim primed and the linen closet door taken off and painted. Now I need to do the caulking (of small holes and cracks near the ceiling), and we can start painting.
Today is actually the first really October day. I realize it's the 11th of October, but today is the first REAL Octobery day. It's gray, the colored leaves are decorating the lawn, it's drizzly, and there's a nice crispness to the air. It's beautiful. I tried to capture its wild beauty, but of course a camera can't do it justice.
Doesn't it just break your heart with how lovely it is? Sigh. I love fall!
At this point, my kitty Spices decided she wanted to come out on the porch with me. So I put her leash on and took her out. Immediately she's like, Mom, No
Mom, this isn't what I signed up for. It's WET.
Ok Mom, I'm ready to go in now.
So she and I went in and started looking at my collection of Taste of Home magazines from the 90s.
I don't know why, but I love pawing through them this time of year. It's comforting. I also have a huge stack of 90s Country Woman, which I love. They just aren't as nice today, I don't think. They seem to be all ads and full page photos of tomatoes. What I like about the ones from the 90s is that they have stories about real women and their lives and their families. That's nice.
Well, I guess that's all for today everyone. I hope you have a great rest of the week! Make sure to go out and enjoy the season!
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