Help DID arrive!

With this unbelievable October weather we're experiencing, the leaves are falling like crazy.  The overall look of the place is messy, yet beautiful.  Jude and Ada were helping me with raking over the weekend and Jude said, "this isn't work, Nini, this is fun".  Indeed, it is.




This should have been a video because Jude & Ada were running from the far end of the yard and doing flying leaps into the pile -



Judey Long-legs



Ada wasn't at all timid about flinging herself into the cushy leaves



Brady was working on the backyard leaves, but only until the pile was big enough to destroy!



Brady's job was to push the dry leaves over the bank with a rake.  He took it very seriously:)



I've always loved pictures of Drew surrounded by fall leaves.  It's almost a "where's Waldo" scene because his hair is the exact same color -


A new season provides all new activities around here.  We're done picking strawberries, raspberries,
blueberries and blackberries.  We're all done making applesauce and throwing wormy apples over the bank.  The pears are in jars.  We ate the one peach that grew on our new little peach tree.  And then the leaves fell.  It is more darn fun than a whole yard full of new toys:)