pumpkin carving

This year we managed to find some time for pumpkin carving...with Dan & Jenn, Chris & Allison. We had a good time. Any guesses as to who carved what?

Michael did the mountain scenery on the far right, and I think Jenn did the middle one, Chris & Allsion did the left one.

happenings in October...

So, I mentioned that October was crazy, and it really was. Michael is too embarrassed by this to let me post a clear picture of this, but I couldn't resist putting up in some way or another....

I suppose in fairness to Michael I won't say much more about it, but if you'd like to venuter a guess, feel free to.

Another project for this month was dealing with our garage floor. Our first winter we noticed that it was sinking, because we painted it the night we got possession, and there was a now a gap between the wall and the floor where the paint used to meet up. We let it go another winter, which was probably good, because it sank some more. A total of 4.5 inches I think it was. Anyway, we had it jacked up this fall. Here's the pictures:

Last, but not least. We grew lot and lots of hot peppers this year. So, we harvested them as the frost threatened, and decided to dry them. We tied them altogether on one long string and then had to come up with a good place to hang them. Michael thought this would look good:

Thanksgiving at the Cottage...

Well, it seems to have become a tradition.  How many times does something have to happen to be considered tradition?  Michael and I spent our first Thanksgiving when we were dating at the cottage with Henry & Shirley, his sister Angela and my Mom.  That's where Michael said the "m" word to me (marriage).  It's also where we went out in the row boat and he broke an oar in his efforts to get back to shore asap when the rain started pouring down!  Since then, we've spent every Thanksgiving that we've been in Manitoba there as well, I think that makes it a total of 4 times.  

Dan & Jenn joined us this time.  Mostly the weekend consisted of good food and lots of relaxing.  The weather wasn't too great, so we spent most of our time indoors by the fire.  Reading, doing homework or knitting, depending on who it was.  Dan & Michael did go out for a hike and got soaked, but had fun apparently.  

Unfortunately, I really don't have many pictures, probably because nothing eventful happened, and the few that I have aren't that great, but just so you have something to look at I'll include them.  We had turkey dinner, but in a very untraditional format.  It was BBQ turkey roll ups.  Turkey pieces that were pounded thin, and rolled up with stuffing inside them.  Yummy!

first day of school & first day of work

Ok, so this may seem totally dorky, but for us it's kind of a big deal.  Michael is taking a class and I'm finally going to be working.  I thought it'd be fun to take a picture of Michael's first day of class and my first day of work, kind of like back in the day when our parents took pictures of us on our first day...only it never happened.  

But I did want you to know about the role reversal, so I'm posting this anyway, sans pictures.  

Michael is taking a course to learn how to use Access software, and I officially have a job(s), which you will hear about in future posts.