Friday, October 25, 2024

Miscellaneous October Happenings

Just a few things from our busy October weeks...

Thanksgiving weekend we hosted Mom's family for an extended thanksgiving meal. Despite rainy weather diverting us from the planned scavenger hunt and other outdoor activities, we still ate well and had great fun together. Our thanksgiving tree that is still in our hallway is still gaining leaves even as our outdoor trees are quickly being blown bare.


 









An impromptu school engineering challenge:

Here's a bunch of odd materials... build a toy car that you can steer. It was interesting to see what was attempted and what actually worked.
Science experiments that turned exploratory play time:



And a long time project completed! A paper mache globe... entirely unproportional but... hey, a globe we made ourselves.


A fair number of early morning across-the-world meetings that meant mom could enjoy multiple glorious sunrises that no photo can fully capture...











We kept on running into our most local neighbour on walks (at least he is no longer hanging out in our yard!). He's entirely unafraid of us, but we're trying to change that by "harassing" him every time we see him so he'll move on and we can finally persue dog fostering again.


We thought we were finally moving into a time of drinkable tap water - we got our well treated... eventually it will be great, but in the meantime, this is now what comes out of our taps!




Saturday, October 05, 2024

Impromptu Happenings

 Sunday we stopped by the library after church to pick up some holds, only to discover it wasn't open yet... so we waited in the adjacent Acadia park, and discovered some yet beautiful, thriving, giant flowers!



Monday we got a last minute invitation to join a morning hike, so we scrambled and joined. It was a great day for a hike, the trail had plenty of challenge (which fork to take this time?) and had enough rocks to reawaken the itch for rock climbing...




On Wednesday, following a Kijiji lead given us, we went to see a fantastic deal on a fish tank... and came home with this monster! An impromptu buy I hope we don't come to regret...
 

And, not very impromptu (due to early morning call with someone on the other side of the world),  but lovely enough to want to share:
sunrise from the hilltop house we live in!