I am not ready for the cold weather… I need it to stay a little bit warm for another month for my daughter’s birthday party. Nevertheless… this is what we have been getting in good ol’ Nevada….
I took this photo from my back porch on Tuesday…. I love the colors! Lake Tahoe must had been beautiful that evening!
What coming out my front door looks like… leaves every where!
My harvest of Sugar Pumpkins… can’t wait to get my pies on!
My kids are so looking forward to Halloween since it is October now. And rightly so, LOL. Who doesn’t like trick or treating.
Anyhow, for the last four halloweens I have dressed my kids up in the same themes and this year will be no different. Last year they were Izzy, Jake and Cubby from Jake and the Never Land Pirates, the year before we had Tinkerbell, Captain Hook and Peter Pan. When my youngest wasn’t quite a year old — he was a horse and my daughter was an Indian Princess and my other son was a cowboy. And when there were just two kids I had Dorothy and the Lion. So I LOVE THEMES. This year we’ll have Elsa, Olaf and ….. does this even look like the character I am going for????
My mother-in-law Sherlyn and I spent about 4 hours working on this tunic. I recommend never working with faux fur… it is horrendously messy like a shedding animal. ACK! Anyhow, she did the sewing machine work and I did most of the hand sewn work on this outfit. Hope it looks like the character it is suppose to look like.
I am so glad I can have my windows open finally. The house was soooooo stuffy and the kids didn’t want to go outside cause they didn’t want to smell the smoke. I think everyone was antsy and on edge because of the lack of being outside today.
The kids said they never went outside while at school. Which is great for health reasons and which is bad due to pent up energy.
I was looking at the Air Quality site and was happy to see we are back in the “Good” category as of 3pm today, bounced back around 4pm — but has been good since 5pm on. But my eyes are itchy and I have been sneezing all day. And my throat feels raw most likely from all the sneezing. Hopefully by tomorrow with the fresh air I will be feeling better. Fingers crossed. Thank goodness it is Friday and I can try to sleep in tomorrow.
There has been a fire raging north of the community of Pollock Pines California called the King Fire. Which is about 70 miles from where I live… and believe me — driving anywhere from my house, you end up driving through the mountains so it takes us about an hour and a half to drive to Pollock Pines. Nevertheless, my little Nevada community is becoming very affected by this fire. Our air quality went from Good to Very Unhealthy in 4 days flat.
I am concerned about my kids – I hope their school forbids them outdoor recess tomorrow. I am concerned about my chickens. What the heck should I do about my chickens? I guess if the Air Quality continues to fall in the Unhealthy Range than I need to look for my air purifiers to keep the good air flow in my home. And of course this had to occur during Indian Summer of all times. Especially when you want to leave your windows open at night to let the cold air in throughout the evening and then close up everything in the morning to keep the cool air trapped during the day. Dang, tomorrow is going to be a hot house to deal with.
I am just afraid we will be in a deja vu episode all over again. A repeat from last year.
Last year we were stuck in our homes for at least a month if not longer from the Yosemite Rim Fire of 2013 due to unsafe air quality. It started on August 17th and wasn’t fully contained until the end of October. No one was allowed outside. Sports were cancelled… kids had to be dropped off for school at the entrance – not the playground and no outdoor recess. It makes it hard on kids who are use to playing outside every day.
Believe me — my heart goes out to everyone involved in these fires… the firefighters, the emergency crews, the people being evacuated, the animals — the list goes on. And I am lucky I am not in the middle of the chaos of such things. But we are and will have to deal with the unhealthy air that comes with such fires.
So we hopped the border and took Highway 4 through the mountains on a Geocaching adventure. We located 3 caches and had a really great time. BUT, I thought I had located a container and then when I opened it I was surprised.
Not certain why that was in the area of the Geocache, but I just left it where I found it. Eeek….
Anyhow, here are some pictures from our other Adventures!
Our first geocache we found
Our 2nd Geocache we stumbled upon
Small Town Living in Maryland 