October Odds and Ends

Abby and I went out for a treat before the Women's session of General Conference.

We tried out the Ice House Frozen Custard and really enjoyed it!

Some more friendly bouquets...

Jo and T came and stayed for a week and a half with us while they worked on Grandma O.'s house getting it ready to be T's art studio when they move here in the spring.

Ben loves Jo and T and when they come to visit.

He doesn't look very happy here because he was having a rough day but he enjoyed snuggling up to T.

They brought an escape room game for us to do together.

We'd done something similar with Andy's parents so the kids knew what to do.

It was a great way to spend an evening!

Abby went on a walk with them up the canyon and they brought back an array of leaves!  We arranged them for some pictures :)

This spring I felt like my flower beds were a bit sparse so I got on my favorite bulb website Colorblends and ordered 475 bulbs to beef up my beds.

They deliver them when it's time to plant so they showed up on my doorstep one day in October.

First, I felt like I had to tear out years worth of old, woody lavender, candy tuft and jupiter's beard to clean out the beds.  Those are some tough root systems to rip out!

After a day and a half of that, it was time for the fun stuff!

I love planting bulbs...tucking them in for the winter.

I put about half of them up front and the rest in back in our box beds for cutting.

T found an old chair at Grandma's that she wanted to keep and repaint.

Abby happily took on the task...

The kids also went over to the house to help paint on Saturday (Josh joined them that evening after work).

I am told they were very helpful...

...even though they did have a bit of fun while they were at it :)

Abby had a young women activity painting pumpkins...