Notice there are no pictures? My camera had dead batteries . I guess it really did not matter anyway because Reed apparently does not like to wear his Halloween costume in public, nor does he like to have strangers stare at him - that, we knew. Poor little man was crying while parading through the school, the only one not dressed up, quietly crying and marching. Why does this not surprise me? He cannot help himself. It's in his blood - he is a miniature version of my father.
Once I quietly rescued him from the parade, we watched the rest of the festivities and then headed to his classroom where another mom and I threw a little party. There were no costumes involved at this point, but there were cupcakes, so all was well in Reed's world.
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I just had an unexpected knock at the door - a neighbor from a couple of houses down.
It seems that while I was at Reed's school this morning, the wind blew our front door wide open. Guess who went on an unsupervised gallop around our neighborhood? Troy made his way around and down to a neighbor who we just met earlier this month when we unknowingly took their little dog in when she showed up on our porch barking after dark on a cold night. Turns out they had camped out in the cold hoping she would come back - little did they know she was sleeping with Holly on the couch under a blanket - a tear-filled reunion followed the next morning.
The neighbor returned the favor today by taking Troy in, calling the number on his tag and then walking him back here after we did not answer the phone. She found our house quiet, another one of our dogs on the porch and the front door wide open. Since we did not return her message this afternoon (nor had we even bothered to check voice mail) she came down to a) make sure we were alive and b) to fill us in on Troy's adventure. She could not get over the fact that while they were trying to contact us and had Troy in their kitchen that his head was taller than the counter tops. Big doofus - I'm sure he was being nosey!
Gotta love it when Halloween falls on a Friday. Today was the kindergarten costume parade at Evyn's school. The first through fifth graders all came outside and lined up to watch and cheer for the parade of cuties. This time, I had a camera with functioning batteries and a child that was very happy about showing off her costume - good times!!
As if this little cage with an additional (artwork decorated) run area, not to mention the daily fresh produce deliveries, hay and dry food, is just not enough this guinea pig. Sunny has realized that she has the ability to jump high, like high enough to clear the wall and roam freely about the playroom, leaving a trail of poop. Disgusting little creature!
she relieve herself in the basket, she also started chewing on the stuff inside of her dark little nest. As if I don't already have enough to do around here. Her little play area is undergoing renovation today.
The four of us and Ashley and Gary all headed west to Carter Mountain Orchard yesterday morning. We have been wanting to pick apples for a few years now and, thankfully, did not miss out this year. Just driving up the steep, winding mountain road was fun, or at least changed Reed's "are we there yet? The mountains are far, far away" complaints to "THIS IS FUN"! We sampled their famous apple cider doughnuts, climbed trees, got slapped in the face with some stray branches, ate plenty of apples and did the hayride around the farm. This is another one of those things we have tried for the first time lately that we will definitely be repeating in the future. Next time, we might want to restrict the amount of apples that we pick - 25 pounds is a lot of apples.
