Fall has arrived :(

It's Sunday, 1 pm and 47 degrees out. Snow forecast for Tuesday. Fall has arrived.

I spent about 6 hours yesterday in the last of the beautiful, 70 degree weather....helping Mike with our marathon "last blast" in the yard. I raked a few leaves out of the gardens, yanked my annuals and cut my peacock orchids and mums back and mulched them over for the winter. Looks awful here - so bare :(

Put away all the rest of my lawn decorations, mostly boxed up in the basement or hung up in the garage......all except this guy that we bought from Stupid.com. His name is Ogod...because that's what everyone says when they see him (we had him perched under our kitchen window...just inside the gate....the first thing you saw was his ass ;). Anyway we brought him inside and he has a place of honor next to the kitchen window on the inside. Quite appetizing. I don't mind as long as he doesn't make any noise. And besides, he expresses my sentiments about fall/winter exactly. First snowfall and his ass is gonna be IN the window conveying his expression to the outdoors.

So now I'm looking at holiday preparations and re-organizing stuff inside. We have no real plans coming up other than North Dakota at Christmas so if anyone wants to come up and go Christmas shopping at the Mall of America with me, I'm game!! Just let us know - room to spare here!

Love to all
Mike and Gail 

Bleghhhh Mondays suck

OK so the weekend just went by too fast. Haven't done much this past week or so except leaves. I broke the electric leaf blower/sucker so Mike's working on getting the gas one running.

I'm also just about done with an afghan I started to crochet about 5 or 6 years ago, so kind of went to town on that this past week.

We did go to Target over the weekend (woohoo) and I found a really cute sweater. Funny 'cuz I really hate Target's clothes. Mike got both of the new Santana CDs. The live one (only can get it at Target) is very good.

The kids seem to be well. Alex got a job (in case I didn't mention it) and Amy and Jared are both working. Their lives seem to be coming back together. Hayley celebrated her FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!! on the 4th of this month. She's walking (or running???) and into size 5 shoes. Bigfoot like her gramma ;)

Mom is doing good too, I didn't get a chance to talk to her over the weekend so will call her today or tomorrow.

There are a couple of fall craft shows we are hoping to get to this weekend so I will probably have to do all my weekend housework during the week this week :) Hope to get some new pictures up soon.

XOXOX
Love
Gail and Mike