November 1, 2025

Time for our annual family photo.
 

October 31, 2025

The color in the trees is fading.
 

October 30, 2025

My dad's machinist tool chest is displayed in my office.
 

October 29, 2025

Last day here. I cried a little to leave my childhood home behind. 
 

October 28, 2025

One last photo of the kids at mom's.
 

October 27, 2025

Our barn is full.
 

October 26, 2025

Here is the rock wall built from the drawing I posted on 10/6.
 

October 25, 2025

In the months before I got married, I took 4 seasonal photos of the house, printed them out and framed them as a gift for my parents. Today I took one last photo from about the same spot. The house is sold and goes to the new people on 10/30.  We'll miss it (except for the leaf pickup- nobody is going to miss that!)
 

October 24, 2025

I've got a few of these now. I just need to figure out how to flatten it out so I can hang it up somewhere.
 

October 23, 2025

She joins me in the evenings to watch the bugs outside the window.
 

October 22, 2025

This was the bedroom I shared with my sister when we were little.
 

October 21, 2025

 

October 20, 2025

 

October 19, 2025

A couple turkeys walked through.
 

October 18, 2025

It's dry enough we mowed the swampy area. I think we've only been able to mow it twice before in the last two decades. Today, it wasn't even muddy.
 

October 17, 2025

This dahlia is big and fluffy.
 

October 16, 2025

They say the trees won't be as colorful this year due to the drought this summer. Looking closer, it appears the trees do have pretty colors but also a lot of large, dead brown spots.
 

October 15, 2025

Another dahlia. 
 

October 14, 2025

I have lots of these around my house now- boxes of random stuff from my parent's house which need sorted.
 

October 13, 2025

The soybeans across the road were harvested this afternoon. 
 

October 12, 2025

We had one last picnic at mom's house.
 

October 11, 2025

I've got a peach colored dahlia.
 

October 10, 1015

We got a frost this morning.
 

October 9, 2025

 

October 8, 2025

 

October 7, 2025

I had to wear these for some reason when I was little. Not sure what it did/ was supposed to do for me.
 

October 6, 2025

I found a blueprint for the stone wall at mom's. The company cut them and numbered them and dad used this to make the wall.
 

October 5, 2025

I picked up two buckets of black walnuts.
 

October 4, 2025

We got a cloud of dust float to us. The soybean field on the other side of the trees was being harvested and it's been so dry it made quite a large amount of dust.
 

October 3, 2025

This is where all the little duckies are coming from. A local bowling alley has an arcade. This machine is a 'play until you win' machine, so we end up with lots of rubber duckies. I got a hippy girl one myself.
 

October 2, 2025

 

October 1, 2025

We have a pumpkin vine trying to grow. It's got flowers now, but it's a bit too late in the year to get a pumpkin so we'll enjoy the flowers from it instead.
 

September 30, 2025

 

September 29, 2025

The soybeans across the street have turned yellow and the trees are turning more.
 

September 28, 2025

We got the garage sale stuff packed up and the yard cleaned up a bit. My sister got up on the roof to blow off the pine needles.
 

September 27, 2025

We went uptown for a festival. This old building has a textured tin ceiling.  Currently, it sells some really good popcorn and chocolate.
 

September 26, 2025

 

September 25, 2025

 

September 24, 2025

This was the base for my dad's machinist tool chest.
 

September 23, 2025

 

September 22, 2025

 

September 21, 2025

We're getting the house emptied out. It's depressing but needs done.
 

September 20, 2025

The leaves are turning colors/ dying already.
 

September 19, 2025

It's been really dry for a while. The grass is getting crispy and the leaves are falling early.
 

September 18, 2025

I looked at some paint colors. Whatever lighting they have shining on them is nothing like what is in my home.
 

September 17, 2025

My parents had this big pile of keys, and we don't know what they went to.
 

September 16, 2025

 

September 15, 2025

 

September 14, 2025

We got around 19 pints of salsa canned. Not bad I guess for such a terrible growing year.
 

September 13, 2025

We brought home more stuff from mom's.