Daddy lets me fly!

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Sorry about the camera angle!

TGIF

Here are some pictures from the week:
This year's pumpkin, carved last night

Trick or treaters in the office

Halloween paper toys. I really wish Olivia was old enough for them .....

I wore the sweater I knitted on Wednesday.

Olivia's flashlight show

And more office.....the kid has a train track sewn to his sweat suit with trains attached. Awesome!

Mondays

Mondays aren't quite so terrible when you've had a great weekend. A perfect run, lunch and a museum exhibit with Ryane, time to work on art and knit, time to clean neglected corners of the house, time to stock the cupboards and try a new recipe for dinner, laundry and much needed sleep. I hope this feeling lasts.

And because I don't have a more recent photo, here is one of the bathmat I made a couple of weeks ago. I've been seeing painted river rocks on different blogs around the internet. So I decided to try it and put them together on a bathmat. Have a good week!

Super Hero

She did it! We have a super hero in the family. She even has the silver cape to prove it. 26.2 miles! AWESOME!

Lunch at the lake

This is the second Friday in a row Hali and I have taken our lunch out to the lake. The weather has been splendid! The water is so beautiful since they drained and filled it. We sit on the dock, eat, talk and laugh. Then we lean over the edge to watch the fish. The water is so clear. Today a dad and his son were fishing off the jetty next to us. It sure makes it hard to go back to the office.

Books and Doodles

Two days of meetings produces a page of doodles. And since I haven’t posted any pictures of them lately….

And now for the books portion of this post. I finished Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman the other night, certainly not one of her best. Now that the summer reading season is over I was thinking of what I enjoyed the most, definitely Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. And if I had to pick a second, it would be Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, but a distant second. I think my problem might have been that I only read one non fiction book this summer. I went for a long period of time when I only read non fiction. Maybe I need to mix it up more. I started a book by Eduardo Galeano yesterday. I heard him interviewed on NPR the other day and found him very interesting. I’m reading Walking Words, Latin American folklore. I’m really enjoying it. But I need some book suggestions……

I think our president is

I think our president is an incredibly brave and moral man. … “Now is the season for action. Now is when we must bring the best ideas of both parties together, and show the American people that we can still do what we were sent here to do. Now is the time to deliver on health care.” … I listened to the president speak last night. And now today I’ve read it again word for word. So I don’t understand. It’s not like we are asking for the moon here. If you have a problem with the bill, what are your ideas to fix it? But fix it and fix it now. What is wrong with trying to eliminate waste, abuse, and fraud and trying to eliminate the practice of padding profits? No, it might not fund the entire health care plan, but isn’t it a step in the right direction? And that’s the problem. It’s time to take a step forward. I would like to send a message to congress. Be brave and lead. You ran for the office. You took the job. Now do it.

Photo credit: last week I saw this moon through the living room window and my camera wouldn't do it justice so Paul shot it for me. He literally gave me the moon.