weekend visit

saturday morning found greg, morgan and i on the road .. .  

to visit adam out at the house . .

getting ready for the beach . .

it was very windy at ditch with a beautiful blue sky and wispy clouds.

the perfect skipping stone? but maybe too pretty to use.

dinner at the inlet . .

while the sun set.

and then a visit to lucore art gallery . .

and a game of yahtzee.

time to get on the road again . .

with a breakfast stop in east hampton . . 

a quick visit to the yarn store . . 

and onward to home.

halloween day

morgan and i were out bright and early for a special halloween parade . . 

to see this special little firefighter . .

also, chanda, morgan and i met korrina at the local middle school for early voting . . 

it was nice having morgana here to vote with us (greg was at work and will vote on election day, tuesday, november 4th).

next up on the agenda was dressing up for janet's halloween party . . morgana and i were cats cricket and pluto and chanda was our vet . .

at the party we had a nice time talking with janet's friend about london, theatre and traveling.

korrina was at work where they all dressed up in different andy warhol wigs and korrina added her knitted gremlin hat . . 

and my sister and brother-in-law made a jack-o-lantern and handed out treats to the very many trick or treaters they had.

toby cat didn't quite understand what all the hubbub was about. 

meanwhile, greg was stuck in traffic after picking the car up from the shop and missed the party. he was very tired and simply made himself a sandwich and went to sleep.

good night! happy halloween!

knitting, rain and dinner

watching "only murders in the building" with morgana and working on our knitting projects (a vest for morgan and a shawl for me). 

it poured today . . and there was much flooding as it came down so fast and heavy that the drains got backed up. cars were floating enormous puddles and buses had a layer of water in them from running through flooded streets. we didn't notice any flooding in our neighborhood when we were running errands.

i made shepherd's pie tonight for dinner from the around the world cookbook.

we'll probably have the leftovers tomorrow night before going to janet's halloween party.

wednesday today

the leaves are finally golden . . 

and there's still goldenrod in bloom . . 

amidst that which has gone to seed . . 

and there's too many cute photos of milly.

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wednesday night dinner (pumpkin ravioli) . . 7 pm . . it's quite dark . . and dark in the morning too.

last wednesday, the 22nd of october: a goldenrod update

last wednesday was incredibly windy. (milly was looking for a treat from me which i had forgotten to put in my pocket.)

we were really getting blown about as we walked along the river. i purposely walked by the goldenrod plants at the playground.

they've all gone to seed and they look beautiful.

and here are my two goldenrod skeins resting in the sunlight with zuzu in the background.

tuesday dinner

 
today was the children's halloween dance in ellen's class and family and friends attended. they did a wonderful job and had a lot of fun. afterwards, i met morgana and chanda for a hamburger and egg cream. meanwhile, greg had to take the car to the shop for it's yearly inspection.