It was such a gorgeous fall! We loved the beautiful foliage and how everything stayed green for so long. Even my late-blooming raspberries were happy with the weather! I picked a half-gallon worth at the beginning of the month, and picked some more again on October 23, which may just be the latest I've ever picked raspberries into October!
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| Oct. 23 |
Saturday, Oct. 28th was the first free day that Josh, Kanyon, and I all had together since Labor Day, so that's when we'd planned to go get our last load of wood. What we didn't plan on, though, was a foot of freshly fallen snow in the mountains! It was a little tricky to maneuver around in, and we didn't get as much wood as we would've liked, but at least we felt more prepared for winter. I think this was a first for us--getting firewood amidst wintery conditions!
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| Got some wood cut & stacked already in the carport for the winter. |
Halloween week was also Drug Free week at school, so there were dress-up days every day as a result. Kanyon wore PJ's to school for perhaps the first time ever to go along with the daily theme on Monday, which I was so impressed by! He's never dressed up for that day before; I didn't even know he owned pajama pants, but I guess he found some in his drawer that the twins left behind. On Tuesday, it was Halloween and he dressed up as a "construction cone". He wore bright orange clothes and socks, and then wrapped a layer of duck tape around his torso to represent the reflective lines on the construction cone. I thought it was pretty ingenious of him! Wednesday was wear red day, and he did that too. He just didn't dress up on Thursday: each grade level was supposed to dress up as an assigned decade, and the juniors were assigned to 80's apparel, but he said he didn't have anything.
On Halloween, Kanyon went to the merchant's trick or treating on Main Street after school with his friends for a little while, then they went to Brother Beyeler's house to get a candy bar, and finally they went to the Lemhi Ward party that night. In one week's time, he went to all 3 ward Halloween parties in Salmon with his friends; whereas Josh and I didn't even go to our own one! He gave us a rundown of them all and rated them as follows: he thought the Lemhi Ward had the best food (a variety of soups), the River Ward had the best party (they had organized games), and the Salmon Ward had the best dessert (cheesecake from Saveway).
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| Kanyon dressed as a construction cone for Halloween. |
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| Do you see the resemblance?! |
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| I thought it was a pretty original idea! |
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