It's Here!

I knew that it was only a matter of time before the snow got here, and this morning the fluffy white blanket decided to grace us with its presence. It is rather beautiful don't you think?
I don't hate snow at all, it's just the wet and the cold that I dislike. So if winter was warm and dry but still kept the snow, it would be my favorite season. But seeing as it is not I will probably whine about it more in the near future.
We have our bird feeders all filled now and this afternoon I saw a Carolina wren! Hopefully she will come back, we usually only see her once or twice.

The Last of The Leaves

Most of the leaves here are on the ground, everything looks on the gray side now. They raked the other day and with the few leaves that recently fell the yard has a poke-a-dot look. It snowed again this morning, nothings sticking yet but it will. All too soon.

Nine lives

My cat fell down the stairs this morning. He's not a stupid cat ( as some people would think) he's just old. But we have no idea how he managed it. I was just out getting out of bed and I heard the loudest most horrible cat screech ever, several thumps, and then a rain of cries for the bottom of the stairs. Everybody rushed out of their rooms to see what had happened. Dad yelled up the steps " The cat fell down the stairs" Spencer added " He's dieing". Slightly panic stricken I got to my cat as fast as I could. Mom was already leaning over him stroking he gently, he seemed fine. Spencer said when he hit the ground he put both paws over his head laid there and yelled " I'm dieing" in cat lingo. Well he was fine just a little shocked, he laid there for awhile and then got up and found a quite place to lay down. We are now wondering what life he is on, he's been shot, fallen down the stairs, so that and all the other things he gotten into I'd say maybe on life six or seven.

Passed

I passed my road test today. I'm free....well maybe not entirely, I don't have a car. But I can go places without my mother. I can actually do things all by myself, I'm a big kid now ( OK that is just silly, sorry) Power to me, I'm loving it.

Pumpkinville

We went to Pumpkinville on Sunday for no other reason than getting out of the house. It is good because with work, school, and other things, I can go days without leaving the house. Sad, I know. Anyway, Pumpkinville is made for little children so there is really nothing there. They have pumpkins, which it why it is called pumpkinville. Their little hunted house is a shed and as you can see Mom and Spencer are terrified. They have a hay ride ( with no hay), pony ride, petting zoo, and food. Their apple cyder it amazing. There is also a corn maze, which we did, lame compared to the last one we were in. We got little pumpkins for finishing. We didn't get pumpkins there though, we have friends that sell them and we are going to get them from them. Hopefully very soon before they all die, it getting really cold.
It snowed here this morning for the first time. Can't say I'm thrilled but bring it on baby...bring it on! My fuzzy socks are ready.

Field Trip

Yesterday we want on a field trip to a corn field. Interesting. This however was not an ordinary corn field it was a corn maze, which is much cooler. We also went to see the wind towers. The towers are much bigger up close than the look, something like 300 feet tall. And even though it doesn't look like it, at the tip of the blades they are rotating at 130 miles an hour. In about a year the towers record for killing birds is only 1.5 birds, everybody wanted to know how you can kill half a bird. After we were done at the wind towers we started our two hour drive to the corn maze. We have been to the maze several time before and had a lot of fun so I was really excited about it. The mazes are cut in the corn so that they have a picture it them, we went to the planets and the cow boy in the past years and this years was fitness. There was a runner, swimmer, biker, a bar bell, and a heart beat. After you enter the maze you look for mail boxes along the path. Each box has a piece on the maze in it, twelve in all and you try to complete the maze so you can find your way out through the heart beat. They have a tower somewhere in the middle if you need help, we had to ask once because we couldn't find pieces two and five, it didn't really help. At one point the guy told us to walk down the path and then keep the corn on our left, there was always corn on our left. We had some problems frustration, our team really didn't work that well together. Part of the problem was that the team was to big, we started with six and ended with seven. One of our teammates walk off because she was mad but she didn't have the map so she came back. Our team was called the "Mighty Inchworms" and we live up to it. We were in the maze for about an hour and a half, we walk several miles, and we did have fun.

A Gentle Reminder

This is obviously a reminder to mom to paint the wall. She spent half the day walking around the house with a can of paint touching things up; meaning don't touch anything.