Fall in all God's glory

 

I love fall.  I love the colors. I love the weather. I love the fresh air. I love the fact that the black flies are gone!  

A friend of mine, Sandra, my granddaughter and I were able to get out for a walk yesterday.  We went to the Cricenti's Bog and walked out through their trails.  I'm so out of shape.  My knees were so bad last evening.  I'm not getting any younger, that's for sure.  Haahaa.  

This photo of my granddaughter walking alone in front of us was the last time she walked without me holding the hood of her jacket.  LOL  This girl is fast!  She took off running down the board walk.  I'm a grandma at 53 and Sandra is 72.  We can't chase her down.  I finally got her stopped and told her we had to go a different direction.  When she got back to me I grabbed a hold of the hood and didn't let go till we were back to the car.  Phew.

         Munchkin loves looking at mushrooms and there were a lot of them to be investigated.

The fluffy white flowers out there in the bog are called Tawny Cottongrass. I wish I had a better photo of them. They look kind of like a frazzled cotton ball.

You have to stay on the board walk for some of the wet spots are extremely deep.  Of course Munchkin wanted to splash in all the "puddles".  There's one spot with a water hole that has a stick in it that you can pull up and push down in the hole.  The stick is over 6 feet long and when pushing down you can't reach the bottom.

                                                It was such a gorgeous day to be out walking.

This is a purple pitcher plant, trumpet pitcher. These are carnivorous!  The centers are filled with a liquid, partial rain water I'm sure. The bugs are in big trouble when they land inside. 

                                                     I love taking close up photos of objects.  

I am so happy to have this little blue van on the road, registered and insured.  I have been driving the big white van every day since April.  It's our camper van and was never meant to be my DAILY driver but then the transmission went in my other van.  Don't get me wrong, I am very blessed to have that van to drive.  It sure beat walking everywhere!  Munchkin was at the point she would cry if we had to go anywhere in it.  She would get car sick riding in it.  

Sad part is that due to the weather, finance and health Kileyanne and I weren't able to go camping once this summer.  Lord willing next year we'll get to go.  

This is a great fall recipe that my family loves.  It has 5 ingredients but I have never used the stick of butter that it calls for.  And I use milk with the soup and not wine. 

Chicken, soup, milk,  stuffing and Swiss cheese.  It is so easy and very tasty.  The last time I made it I diced the chicken up into about 1 inch pieces.  

https://blessyourheartichoke.com/swiss-chicken-casserole/

 

I am excited that Kileyanne will be home-schooling again.  We home-schooled for three years through C and then she went back part way through 6th grade.  She'll end public school next month at the end of 1st quarter. I really enjoy having her home during the days and we had such a great time home-schooling.  She went back because she missed her friends but I guess she doesn't miss all the drama that goes with those friends.

We use A.C.E curriculum.  It's a faith based study.  A go at your own pace study.  

 

Well, I leave you here with a photo of Riot.  A 3 year old.  One of my daughter's horses.