Here's a little humor after our recent election:

George Bush goes to a primary school to talk to the kids to get a little PR. After his talk he offers question time.

One little boy puts up his hand and George asks him his name.

"Stanley," responds the little boy.

“And what is your question, Stanley?"

"I have 3 questions. First, why did the USA invade Iraq without the support of the UN? Second, why are you President when Al Gore got more votes? And third, whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden?"

Just then, the bell rings for recess. George Bush informs the kiddies they will continue after recess.

When they resume George says, "OK, where were we? Oh, that's right: question time. Who has a question?"

Another little boy puts up his hand. George points him out and asks him his name."Steve," he responds."And, what is your question, Steve?"

Steve responded, "Actually, I have 5 questions."First, "Why did the USA invade Iraq without the support of the UN?"Second, "Why are you President when Al Gore got more votes? "Third, "Whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden?" Fourth, "Why did the recess bell go off 20 minutes early?"

And fifth, "What the Hell happened to Stanley?"

Fall Photos Finally

And I did it! Now that was a big accomplishment for me: actually getting out and using the digital camera, uploading them into the computer and finally posting them on a site! And it only took me about four days to do that. :}

But aren't they cute! Standing out in front of Grandma and Grandpa's front yard posing so nicely while mommy takes just one more picture please.

I'm very glad I took these photos last weekend actually because today is rainy and chilly. In fact it is supposed to rain off and on for the next week and the snow level tonight is actually 7,000 feet! Yea!



I just love this photo too, driving back home from Grandma and Grandpa's up highway 4. Over the river and through the woods. Well, it's not literally over a river, but you can most definitely see the woods!

Next I promise some beautiful mountain rain storm pictures. :}

Fall Colors

Fall has always been my second favorite season. I’ve always seen it as just a prelude to Winter, which is my season. But I’ve actually been quite enjoying Fall this year. It’s my second year here in the mountains again, just me and the kids. Last year we had just barely moved in and I don’t think we really had a chance to enjoy the Fall weather before Winter hit. But it’s just beautiful here right now. Although the majority of the trees are the evergreens, there are quite a few trees right now turning the most amazing colors of gold, red, yellow and orange.

In fact last weekend the kids and I took some Fall pictures with my digital camera (that I never use). We took pictures in town and around my parents’ house, that I do hope to eventually actually get around to posting one of these days! We also made Fall collages. We each took a small brown paper bag and went for a walk around our street as we picked up pretty leaves, twigs, pine needles, flowers…When we got back home it was interesting to see what each of us had in our bags and how we had collected some things similar and some different. Then I got out construction paper, pens, crayons, colored pencils and glue and we started to create! What fun! And the kids really got into it. I hung up our three collages on the pantry doors after they dried. Wesley made little people out of his collected leaves and fall foliage. He even glued on little eyes from my sewing supplies and a fuzz ball red nose. And Laken used up all of the glue in the glue bottle on her second picture making what she told me was “a lake”. Yea, it was a Glue Lake!

November came in with two days of rain and nice cool temperatures and I was getting excited feeling Winter on its way. My dreams began to fill with snow! We were building fires every night and crawling under our toasty electric blankets with our home made, knitted slippers on. Then the last two days it has not only cleared up, but warmed up. It’s almost 80 degrees out today! The Farmer’s Almanac actually said that this Winter is going to be 6 degrees colder than last winter. We did have a fairly last Winter last year though, but I didn’t think it was too bad. Now I grew up here in the mountains, but this was my first Winter living up here again in about 17 years. And I did just fine! Now that I think of it, it was a late Winter last year, because the kids were hunting Easter eggs at my parents’ house in the snow. Sweet!

So I do plan on enjoying the remainder of our wonderful Fall here in the mountains as I continue to look forward to a chilly Winter!!