October 14, 2015

Fall has come. 

October 13, 2015

I got to see my niece today.  She liked playing with one of the toys I still have around.

October 12, 2015

My brother is making another pulpit for a church.  They wanted a dove.  I created the dove on the computer, then we finally got our machine working again and carved it out.  It took around 12 hours though, as our machine isn't too good for this.  I am hoping we can carve some smaller ones that don't take nearly as long to mill as this one did.

October 11, 2015

Today we dug potatoes.  It seemed to be faster and easier than years past.  Only reason I could come up with was that the kids are older and more of them have become more help than hinderance.  Here they are with some of our russets.  About a third of them had lots of knobs on them.  It's edible, but will be a nuisance to clean and peel. 

October 10, 2015

We mowed the front yard today, for the first time in about two months.  It was so dry in August, the grass took a while to recover once it started raining again.

October 9, 2015

My husband got out his erector sets.  My son has taken an interest in building something.

October 8, 2015

My daughter worked on her October project.  This one was to draw a leaf and write a story inside it.  She likes to write, and after 3 typed pages I had to remind her to finish it up soon (or it'd be a novel finished next month).  She ended up with 7 pages... a big difference from the boys, who would have been doing good to get 7 sentences.