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It was a cool and rainy morning, but the guild guild's floral committee kept the work coming on the back porch of the Nature Center. In the end, there were many lovely arrangements to bring inside for the guild's annual fall show.
I think I made the same goal last year, but this year I'm going to remember it. I'm going to be more intentional in planting flowers in my yard and in cutting them to bring inside. This morning I cut rosemary, sage, broomplant, and grasses, thinking that I didn't have much to contribute but knowing that we needed things. And mixed with cosmos, zinnias, and dahlias, they were so pretty. There's no reason why I can't have little arrangements for almost no money to brighten my house.
So, I've already added this to my list of goals to come for next year. If I put it on my goal list, it usually gets done.
My cousin Gregg and his father, Darvin, were both wonderful potters, and both were professors at Bluffton University. Darvin died earlier this year, in his 90's. Gregg, nearing retirement, is still at Bluffton.
A couple of weeks ago I was at a meeting at a church friend's house when she put the coffee cream in this charming little pitcher and said it had been made by my uncle Darvin. I had been eyeing it, but thought it had been made by Gregg.
So, today I sent a facebook message to Gregg with an attachment of this photo, asking him whose work it was. Both signed their last names only to their pottery, so no help there.
I'll let you know whose work it is.
The kids love Cincinnati Nature Center's Playscape on a fall day. Time just goes by there.
Other kids come and go, but Aaron, especially, could take a lunch and play all day.
Nora nicely humors him, but she too enjoys the unstructured play, building fires and teepees and houses with furniture. They even had pretend meals with prayers. Good stuff.
This time I'm really going to do it. I'm going to keep track of the number of miles I walk in my good running shoes.
No walking until I can feel that there is nothing left of the shoe and my back hurts and my feet feel worn. No walking until I go into the store and the clerk tells me that what I'm wearing is three styles ago. No wearing my good walking shoes to the grocery store.
There's just something in me that believes that when I spend that much for a pair of shoes they should last for years. Even when I go out and pound hard on pavement. And I do, I strike really hard with my heels. There's just something in me that doesn't believe that shoes should only be worn 500 miles. I just need to get past that.
So, this time I'm going to keep track and when I get to 500 miles, this pair of shoes will be retired to very casual wear, grocery shopping and wearing to meetings. And I'll go back to the store.
Aaron is crazy about Star Wars, and he wants to be Darth Vader for Halloween this year. His mom supplied the black shirt and McCalls 2854 has a good cape pattern. There were lots of little pieces of Wonder Under involved.
He already has the mask, and with black gloves and black pants, he should be pretty convincing, as long as his red hair doesn't shine through.
Hope he's a happy boy.
Today the kids had a day off school and the family took me along to Natural Bridge. At first Nora was a little timid about the height of Natural Bridge and other rocks, but by the end of the hikes she was a happy girl.
Aaron's legs got really tired on the hike from Natural Bridge to the parking lot, but he was a trooper. The trail sign says 1.25 miles, but I don't believe it, it definitely seemed longer. We took the chair lift to the top and hiked down. I'd rate that trail strenuous, lots of ups and downs and trail rocks.
Not all the Red River Gorge trails were accessible because the Forest Service roads were closed, but we did the short hike to Angels Windows, where the trail head starts in the parking area beside the road. Natural Bridge wasn't affected because it's a state park.
My Kentucky friends know that a trip to Natural Bridge/Red River Gorge is not complete without (1) Ale 8 1, and (2) Miguel's pizza. It just has to be.
I made a tooth fairy pillow for Nora far in advance of any loose teeth, although in my defense, she was late in losing her first tooth. The last person in her class to do so.
But, that second grandchild did not fare as well. His first tooth came out a couple of weeks ago, (without much drama on his part) and he has a second loose one beside the gap. Until today, still no pillow.
But, here it is, with the upper zombie tooth being the little pocket just the right size for a tooth. The I Heart Zombies design is from Planet Applique, and I learned that in the future I'll be using a cut-away stabilizer for their designs. I though, umm, applique, a tear-away will be fine, but it wasn't and there are puckers. I had to sit down with myself and tell myself that this is for a six-year-old boy, he's not going to critique it.
Now, if he can hold off losing that second tooth before I see him next time, he'll have his own tooth fairy pillow.
