Day Three Hundred Seven

A Walk In Capshaw Woods

The sky was insanely blue today. Makes me wish I was a bird so I could fly around in it.

Photographs never do the real thing justice. I love these blues and golds.

The trees in Capshaw Woods are pretty old. There are some giants in there.

The sun was shining through this yellow Maple leaf, making it glow.

Is it just me, or does this tree root resemble a rabbit head?

Down in the woods, looking toward Maple Avenue. All I could hear was the wind in the trees and the leaves crunching under my shoes.

I love these chilly, sunny, blue sky Autumn days. There is nothing else like it. I can't get enough of it. I'm glad I got to spend some time outside today walking in the woods.

Day Three Hundred Six

Hello, November!

Not a cloud in my sky this afternoon as I waited for Shelby after school. The trees in Capshaw woods are so pretty right now. A lot of them are already bare.

There she comes, just a walkin' down the street .... Shelby on her way to Granny's house after working hard at school all day--at this point, she's ready to dump the backpack, kick back with a Popsicle (usually a Bomb Pop) and watch something on Disney or Nick. Such a great kid! Love you, Shelby!!

Day Three Hundred Five

Who Could Possibly Sleep?!

Coffee (and coffee houses/cafes) loomed large in my weekend. When daughter Kelly is in town, as I've pointed out before, we have coffee. Saturday after lunch we headed over to the Dolce Cafe on our town square and enjoyed a Dolce Caramel Latte (with whipped cream). About three hours later, I found myself at Poets' coffee shop, also on our fair town square, along with daughter Kelly, nieces Sarah and Julia, and sister Jane. We sat around a big table and played Apples To Apples, a most excellent game (cards are involved). No coffee for me. I opted for a smoothie, and everyone else had either hot chocolate or a smoothie, or in Kelly's case, a bottle of some weird green liquid. We had the best time ever! Kelly has pictures to prove it. I forgot my camera. Duh! Then this afternoon, before Kelly headed back home, we dropped in at Starbucks for ... coffee.

If you take your own containers, you get a whole dime off the price of your coffee. Well, who could turn that offer down?! We brought our tumblers and had some delicious flavored coffee. Mine was a pumpkin spice latte. (With whipped cream....) Tis the season. These are Create Your Own Tumblers. They're fun to make.

Kelly sent her dad to save us a seat while we ordered the coffee. Uh, these would have been nice and comfy ....

but Neil thought hard chairs at a table would be so much better. (LOL!) It was all good. We got to hang out together for a little while longer before Kelly had to be on the road. She got home safe. I got to spend a fun weekend with my family. And to top it off, our Tennessee Titans beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 31-13!

Sure did hate to see October go! But I was thrilled to get my hour back at 2AM!

Day Three Hundred Four

Happy Halloween!

Daughter Kelly channels Michael Jackson. She had all the moves and looked more like him than he did!

Kelly, Sarah, Julia, Jerry, Holly, Shelby and Elijah ready for some trick or treating.

The Myers Family: Jerry was a priest-meets-The Matrix, Holly, Shelby and Elijah were vampires.

The Priest and The Vampire

Vampires!

Niece Sarah dressed up like our youth minister (and looked more like him than he did!). Niece Julia was a very convincing iPod.

The church youth minister doesn't know what to make of the king of pop.

One neighbor used the honor system and left the candy bowl on the porch. Elijah led the way to each door most of the evening.

Trick or treat! Kiss my feet!

Give me something good to eat!

Waiting for the hand out.

We all piled in Jerry's truck and took off for one of the most popular trick or treating neighborhoods in town.

Jane held on for dear life in the back of the truck--a very chilly ride!

King of Pop, Youth Minister, and iPod ready to make their haul. (Sarah looks like she stepped in something....)

Most of the houses in this neighborhood are up on hillsides. So some of the residents offered curb service. One offered not only candy but hot cider.

These two ghouls are niece Ashley and nephew Ethan, who dropped by after making their own candy rounds.

This bunch is enough to give anybody nightmares!

Nephew Chris joined the trick or treaters as they settled around the table to play a game of Nertz.

My little pumpkin I carved free hand. First one I've carved in many years. This is one of the most fun Halloweens I've had in years! I usually stay at the house and feed the spooks while everyone else goes trick or treating, but tonight brother in law Don took over that job for me (he was quite content to stay at the house and watch the UT/South Carolina game while he doled out candy to the spooks). So I got to go along and watch the kids have fun gathering their candy. We ate chili and candy and cookies, drank some hot spiced apple cider and to top off this fun evening, the Tennessee Volunteers beat the South Carolina Gamecocks 31-13!! (Don't you love those numbers) The Volunteers wore black jerseys for the first time in 87 years! They looked great in their orange and black. What a Happy Halloween! I hope you had a good one, too.

Day Three Hundred Three

Happy Birthday, Jane!

Today my baby sister Jane Mabry Foy celebrates her 48th birthday. She's still the same sweet, funny, lovable little sis she's always been--our almost-Halloween baby in the family. She's a blessing to me and everyone who knows her. I don't know what we'd do without her. Wishing you every happiness today and always, Jane! I love you and am thankful you're my sister. Hope you have the happiest birthday ever!