Sweet October.

I love this time of year.  If tulips bloomed in fall, I would be most content living my entire life in October.  The colorful trees make the daily driving around town more interesting.  The piles of pumpkins at storefronts and on house steps provide me an odd inspiration.  I just want to drive my car up to a pumpkin patch and say load it up!!  Carve 'em, paint 'em, stack 'em, bake 'em...who doesn't love pumpkins?!  This weekend I picked up some pumpkins of my own!  Finally!  While the picking was good, I'm loaded up on those wonderful globes of orange!

I already had some decorative gourds and mini pumpkins from the garden at Green Acre!  And now I have four beauties from a pumpkin patch north of town.  It was windy, cold, and we were tired when we were there so I don't have any pictures.  I pay still hit up another pumpkin patch next weekend.  I love me some pumpkins!!!

Brent and I spent our Saturday up at Green Acre gifting my mom with labor for her birthday.  She had a list of things that she wanted done and I think tackled most of them.  Using a mini-track hoe we dug up more roots and turned soil, cut down a tree and tore up the trunk and roots, and emptied more junk from the garage.  Monty and I needed to show some TLC to the '67 while we were there.  It turned over like a champ and we took it up to Laporte for a fuel-up, wash, and air in the tires!

We also planted another blue spruce tree out front and emptied the last of what the garden had to offer before tearing up all the plants and dead and corn stalks.  I took home a box load of green tomatoes ... and made fried green tomatoes for the first time.  They weren't too bad!

Yesterday Brent and I watched a movie and ran some grocery store errands.  I made some mini brownies and smores brownies.  The s'mores brownies were a concoction on the fly and it worked.  I lined the bottom of my square brownie dish with graham crackers and then poured in the rest of the brownie mix left over from the mini bites pan.  I baked that until almost done and then sprinkled mini marshmallows, chocolate chips, and graham pieces on the top and baked it for about five minutes more.  It turned out awesome!!!  And it was delicious!!

We ended our weekend with dinner at his parent's house.  It was my last two day weekend.  I have my last five day week ahead of me and then my schedule changes, hopefully for the better.  I have a four, yes FOUR, day weekend ahead of me next weekend and I can't wait!  We're heading to Laramie for the homecoming football game.  GO POKES!!  Can't wait to see my UW girlie girls!