Shingle Creek Wierd Harvest Party

We had a Harvest party at church on Friday. Judy and I had a small "Dig Up Your Dead Ancestors" booth, complete with a graveyard brownies for people to look at Newfamilysearch.org. We have Selina as Frankenstein, Zack as a Viking, Amber as freckles and Megan must be Pink.
The master committee chairman Brian.
Here is Gretchen as Boo from Monsters Inc. Isn't she adorable? Good job on the costume.
There was a wicked witch, too. Don't know if she was from the West or the North.
There was a pie eating contest. It was chocolate pie so I was definitely in. I thought I did pretty well, but I did not hear the part about standing up when you were done. So I did not get 1st place. One of the missionaries did. My pie pan was really clean too. There was also a chili cookoff. I tied for first place but lost to the runoff drawing.
Smile for the camera.
Guess who this is? All she wanted to do was to get the pie all over her face. She kept splatting it in her face.
The answer is Lydia.

Harvesting the Carrots

Well, it had snowed already two times for a total of about 6 inches by the time I got around getting the carrots out of the ground. It didn't hurt them but instead gave them a drink. We had the twins for the weekend and decided to give them a little farming lesson. I let them each pick some of them but their attention span lasted for one carrot. Then they were off doing other things. I would pull another two or three dozen and they would show up again to pull another one. But the good thing is that they got to pull some. Besides they love carrots, especially Logan. He eats them one fistful at a time. They are watching how it is done. Liam got a good one.
So did Logan.
We had a several dozen that were in the 8-9 inch range with one that was ten inches long, just the orange part. The average length was about 6 inches. So I call it a successful harvest from one pack of seeds. We got a full 5 gallon bucket of them before I peeled, sliced, cooked and froze them. Remember to add a bit of sugar to the water instead of salt when you cook them. They are soooo tasty then.

1st Snow

Early this morning we got our first snow of the season. It was about 1/2 inch but still kind of fun to see. But wait a minute. The leaves are still on the trees. I have not had to rake them yet and already it snowed. But I remember when I was a kid that we always had snow on the ground for the season by the middle of October. But the past several years it has been well into December before we have snow on the ground for the season. Must be all the Global Warming Al Gore is talking about. The flowers are now gone around the flag pole . Well, they are gone all around the house too.Close up. Lorelei said she wanted to go out side to play in it. She could not wait.
Snow leading up to the vegetables.
I still have not pulled all my carrots yet. They are still okay, as long as the ground is not frozen. I'll get them this coming week. The first few I picked were sure good.

Rolling about town

As most of you know, Judy had foot surgery on her left foot. She was a sport about it and got this very stylish "Roll-About" to get around. Several people said she had a Libby mobile, because Libby Ames had one a while back. She was not allowed to put any weight on the foot for six weeks. She has been on this contraption for that amount of time and back at work for the last four weeks. She is shedding the scooter for an upbeat pair of crutches. She is going to physical therapy twice a week, starting a couple days ago. She is doing her exercises and is now putting 25% weight on it. What was done was to add two long screws to fuse the leg bone to the an ankle bone because of arthritis, shave some bone off her big toe because of a big bump and add that to a metatarsal to straighten the foot, rebuild the arch and align and lower the big toe and finally lengthen the akilies tendon. She had five small incisions that were stapled shut - no stitches. The big boot was put on after surgery over the dressings and was to remain on until a follow up appointment two weeks later. She is now wearing a fancy post-op shoe. She has followed everything she was asked to do by the doctor. A couple weeks of crutches and then nothing. Way to go, Judy.

Love that Chocolate!

One day we decided that it would be a great idea to have CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM CONES. They were delicious. See for yourselves.

Lorelei lost her 2nd tooth

For the second time, Lorelei lost a tooth and Gramma and Grampa's house. Amazing!.

Cash 4 Clunkers

Several days after I bought my new car, I thought it would be fun to see if my old '94 Explorer was still around. I found it on death row, waiting to be executed. I thought they would have spray painted "Cash 4 Clunkers" on the sides. But I was told that they would not do that just in case the deal did not go through, in which case they would have returned my old car, in running condition, and I would need to pay them an additional $4500.