What A Fun Day!

Yesterday was a fun day! We departed Big Canoe for some shopping and then met Anne for lunch at PF Changs. She was tired from all the costume sewing into the wee hours but had the job done. A little caffeine helped. We then went over to Anne's home and cleaned out the pumpkins and had them ready for carving.

The kids are growing up fast - they were all able to cut out their pumpkin designs - even the twins. We used the Dremel tool to speed up the hole making but they could handle the rest.

Anne made some pumpkin pies and frogmore stew for dinner and we all sang Happy Birthday to Ginger (their dog) who has turned four.

Big Helen and I made a quick run to Stein Mart to hunt down Halloween sweaters - hopefully on sale. I had success and got one whose pumpkins lit up and sparkled! My sweater was 50% off and Helen is going back today to get hers at 75% off!

The Trick and Treaters were slow to start and it seemed weird to have not turned back the clocks so the door bell would start ringing at 6pm. In spite of the delayed start the crowds appeared and all the excitement had quieted down by 8:30 when the four grandparents slipped away for home.

Susan A Princess

Vivian The Island Princess

Dorothy The Grey Lady

Helen The Princess

Katherine The Witch

Safely Back in Big Canoe

We arrived back in Big Canoe yesterday afternoon just in time for a meeting - fortunately, since I arrived late, everyone was busy socializing and I didn't miss anything.

We had the fresh water hose spring a tiny leak while we were in Lake Lure, NC and the stretch vinyl repair tape worked just great but we then discovered that there were bulges all along the hose - guess it decided to go bad the whole way.

This morning Bill replaced the hose with another one we had on hand so hopefully this one will work - it is a larger diameter but a new clamp seemed to be holding it. We will find out for sure when we head down to Seaside for Thanksgiving week.

We expect to be here at home until November 16th.