Fall and Back to School

Stephen was returned to Morris last Sunday and Jeff and I made the round trip. We spent about 30 minutes in Morris. We unloaded the car and said our good-byes. Stephen was settling in very quickly. We were no longer needed and I think he is the only one of his apt. mates without a car so they arrived on their own.

Rachel and I went clothes shopping last week. She is such a thrifty, bargain hunter. We had fun spending her money and finding some great deals. Here are a couple of her new outfits.




Official swim practice has begun and she'll have her first meet of the season this coming Thursday. Both of our cats are attracted to the smell of chlorine and Tucker decided to use her swim bag as a sleeping bag this past week. It was a strange sight.



The weather is definitely feeling as if it has shifted to a more fall pattern. The leaves are beginning to change and we are harvesting beans, lots of beans. I have lots of green tomatoes and hope that we can have enough sun and non-freezing weather to get at least a few of them to turn red. (We've had a couple of very nice cherry tomatoes but that is all so far.) Hopefully we'll also have a few potatoes. I planted some yukon gold for the first time and am excited to see what grew. That is a project yet for tonight.

I'm currently making peach butter with part of the box of beautiful peaches we bought last week. We've had peach crisp, peach blueberry pie and lots of fresh peaches this week. Yum!

Enjoy the closing days of summer (at least if you are a student) and let us know if you ever get within 5 hours of us and we'll see if we can't arrange to meet you somewhere.

Diane