Seven Quick Takes: Loving October!

 

1. Big cream cheese sugar cookies with pumpkin flavor added, rolled and cut out into pumpkin shapes, frosted with orange pumpkin flavored icing, and given faces.

What's not to like?





2. The Year of Faith!  I am really excited about this Holy Year, and I am hoping it will be a year of real spiritual growth for the whole family.  We are working on an illustrated Creed project, and I've made our templates available as PDF and Word Documents.   More info in my Creed post.

3. 7:08:09 10/11/12  Did you notice it?

4. Walks in the woods with the leaves all turning, finding box turtles!

Yes, the poor thing is upside down, and completely clammed up.  Choclo and Oob were very interested to see that he could withdraw so completely into his shell and guessed that it was so that other animals couldn't eat him.

No turtles were harmed in the making of this blog post!


5. Speaking of walks, on a recent foray, we inspected the building of a new path through our woods.  To our delight, they left an excavator lying about.

From the outside, it looked like this. (can you see the little feet?)


From the inside, it looked like this!

We were very careful not to disturb anything.

Interestingly, when we got home, they couldn't wait to tell Daddy...they'd seen mushrooms!








6.Starting new knitting projects with half an eye on Christmas.  Nothing like sitting by a fire on a cold rainy October night, knitting a scarf. 

I love ruffly scarves, so I was quite taken with this yarn.

It definitely looks like I've done something clever, but the actual "yarn" is a crocheted (or tatted) strip about three inches wide.  You just knit the outer edge and it automatically creates billowy, lacy ruffles!

Long time blog followers know I am not an expert knitter (although I am very good at knitting beards) and, while I had to go through the directions several times (never having actually followed knitting directions before), it's pretty easy and will make a nice gift (for someone who doesn't read my blog, so Bill, don't tell her!).

 7.  The beginning of the school year craziness starts to ebb, and we find things like forgotten pictures from our summer vacation (on Mxyl's iPod, thanks, Mxyl!).

This is the Assateague lighthouse (which we climbed).

And this is Misty of Chincoteague's stuffed body (which we did not climb because they have rules about that sort of thing).


More Quick Takes with Jen!