Saturday, November 4, 2017

Saturday, November 4, 2017

Tonight's picture was taken in October of 2007. Mattie was five years old and we took him to the Fall Festival at Butler's Orchard in Maryland. That had to be one of our favorite farms to visit in the Fall and Spring. As you can see Mattie loved their big barn filled with hay! Initially when Mattie went to this barn as a preschooler, he did not like the hay AT ALL. But you can see with age that all changed!!!


Quote of the day: If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ~ Dale Carnegie

Welcome to our room with a green view!!!

Dale Carnegie would have been proud of Peter and me today! It is 7:00pm, and we are still working! Our day started out by migrating many of our outdoor plants in, as next week the lows will be in the 30's! A massive change from the beautiful weather we have been having. The weather was so nice last night, that we had dinner outside.

A good chunk of our day was dedicated to picking up candy! This first load delivered to us was from St. Columba's Preschool in Washington, DC! They describe themselves as a 'small' preschool, but their donation was formidable. I loved meeting one of the School's moms and her son! They were both so animated and happy to be contributing to such a good cause. 

This was our second candy load delivered to us today. This load was from the River School in Washington, DC. You may not be able to tell, but there are 11 boxes here and they filled up our trunk and back seats (which were folded down). 

In between candy runs, we took Sunny to Scott's Run in McLean, VA. This wasn't a favorite park of Mattie's, mainly because it is all trees and not as visually interesting as some of the other parks we visited. In addition, Scott's Run is hilly. Not very good for little legs!

But it is the ideal park for Sunny. It has woods, a water element, hills, and all sorts of natural smells for him. 

I love how Sunny blends into the Fall colors around him!

This is deceptive, but this is one steep hill. Sunny wanted to go down it, which also meant we had to go back up it! Mind you under all these leaves are rocks. Of all sizes, so you have to be steady on your feet or you will go flying or twist an ankle. 

Once down the steep hill, this is the sight of the Potomac River in front of us!

In all the times we visited Scott's Run, we never saw deer! Today we spotted two. They were checking us out, but seemed used to people! They remind me of the deer (black tailed deer) my parents have in the hills of California. Our local deer are usually white tailed and are redder in color. But these two cuties had black tipped tails!