Brian

It’s been raining here for a couple days and yesterday I woke up to find that the mountains right outside my living room window have snow on them.  One of the peaks was snow-free for only about 9 weeks this year.  It hasn’t gotten quite cold enough at night yet to freeze so my annuals are still hanging on, although some of them are looking tired.  A few perennials are still blooming and I have some lovely roses blooming late this year.  Hurrah for Liquid Fence!  I’m a believer, as the deer have mostly stopped nibbling now that I’m fanatically spraying our property.  They pass through but don’t stay to eat.  So for the first year ever, I have fall-blooming roses because the dang deer didn’t eat off the buds.

I’ve gotten some reading in and finished another challenge: the goodreads.com 2013 Challenge.  I set mine for 104 books and reached it in September.  Still three months left!

A friend and I have scheduled some quilting time together so that we can encourage each other and make sure some work gets done, so this week I started the quilt I’m making for our family Festival of Trees space this year.  I have until Thanksgiving to get it done, but really before then as I’m having this one machine-quilted for the first time instead of hand-quilting it like I do my others.  I’m shooting for finishing the top by Halloween.  It’s chocolate and lime with some turquoise and has a fun rectangular repeating block in a scrappy fashion.

Except for the week when I was laid up with a sprained foot, I’ve been walking pretty regularly around the neighborhood and listening to audio books.  I really like being out and walking.  With the weather turning cooler, I’ve been going later to enjoy the warmth, but this week it hasn’t helped much because it doesn’t warm up.  I might need to get one of those ninja masks people wear in the cold for fall walking.

We went to see our niece, Nika Fazulyanov, in “Shrek, the Musical” at the SCERA theatre where she played Young Princess Fiona.  She was great and looked cute as a redhead.

Brian’s car was broken into and had the passenger window smashed in.  Trust me, that makes an unholy mess inside the car. He was shaken up but not hurt and nothing really valuable was stolen, but I sat for 3 1/2 hours yesterday at the dealer while they replaced the window.  Things like that make it easy to get lots of reading done.

That’s about all the news.  Hope we have an Indian Summer on the way because I’m not quite ready for winter.