Mr. Wind blew alot of them across the street into a yard belonging to an older man who had already raked his yard clean for the season. I felt bad but I can't control Mother Nature! 
They are both outside mowing leaves this afternoon. Today was 'pledge Sunday' at church; the bell choir played while the congration came to the front to drop their pledge cards into a doll house sized wooden church. There weren't alot of people there but I know some of the snow birds have flown south for the winter.
Speaking of flying . . . Jason's in-laws have invited us to go to Maui with them in February! They have a time-share but rented another unit thinking one or all of their own kids might go again. The kids all seem to be short on funds (and long on toddlers!) so we were offered the space. I need to get more $$ details but it sure sounds good to me!
Maggie -- Our new jail will be in an existing building that the city already owns and is in a commercial zone with a low income housing development across the street. Needless to say, there has been alot of hoopla because they don't want to live next to a jail. There were other commercial buildings and businesses there when the houses were being built 20+ years ago. DH is on the Board of Adjustments and he had to do the tie breaking vote. There are 2 families we know from when we first moved to town and were in Welcome Wagon card clubs together. Now neither one of them will speak to us because of DH's vote! Anyhow, the new jail will have room for juveniles as well as adult men and women so we won't have to pay neighboring counties to house them. The majority of them are Mexicans. Thanks for the bread info -- my grandma was the bread maker but I only remember her making white bread. I'm so sorry that I didn't take baking, crocheting, and tatting lessons from her! She did teach me to play Rummy though!
I hope everyone has a relaxing day! I'm off to the landfill with DH and a pickup full of leaves!
Jean --
from Iowa!
) and found that German Baking chocolate makes a really wonderful chocolate pie. I used 6 oz and it was creamy, smooth and wonderful taste. One problem, we are going to have to roll Jack to Indiana because his guinea pig testing 
is 
him up! 
Dunkin Donuts has some slammin' good Toasted Almond coffee! Yum-o! 
Y'all know what this calls for don't y'all? Oh yeah...a special treat!! 
Like I said, pies from Faye and bread from you . . . hmmmmm, hmmmmmm good! 
We only have one unless we want to travel to another town and they are all evening meetings. Ian was bribed with jelly beans and stickers when they started potty training. 
I'm going to put in my request for Maui time tomorrow so we'll see . . . there is a "no school" day on Monday unless we have 4 snow days to make up by then, I have one and a half days of personal time off, so I'd only lose two and a half days of pay. If they say 'no', I may just call in 
from Maui! 
from Iowa!
Luckily for us we were not hurt and only cosmetic damage done to my jeep. The deer was not lucky. Awful feeling. So much traffic on the highway. Next thing we knew the deer was there in front of us. 
At least when my daughter did her naked dance in the sprinkler we were living in the country and no one but Mom saw her. She at least folded her clothes up nicely before she took the plunge. What was neat about living out there was the place was owned by a school principal and he had a lovely wife and 6 children. They lived in a huge house and we rented the old farm house which wasn't so small but not big enough for all of them. It was all in the middle of a walnut orchard. Anyway he was an avid surfer and had an olympic sized swimming pool which had a nice high chain link fenc around it to keep out wild animals. In the summer time he taught swimming there. My daughter would watch through the fence. He let us use the pool when ever they weren't using it so one day he came home and saw her doing the exact things he had been teaching the older kids. From then on he took her with him as an example of how things were supposed to look. She watched him and learned it that way and he was a good teacher. 
There was a bad boat accident, on Okoboji, resulting in the death of an all around nice guy -- family man, church goer, dentist, etc. The guy who hit him has a police record 7+ pages long of OWIs. Anyhow, we enjoyed watching the surfers in Hawaii but I never had any desire to try it. Do you still have your surf board stored away somewhere? Thanks for posting the salad recipe! 
I hope your day was a good one?
I was watching a program on the travel channel last weekend on cruising and saw the part where they make everyone do the lifesaving drill and I kept thinking, "Boy, those puppies don't look none too big. Sure hope they have those babies in plus size!" 
) As for surfing, I have enough trouble just walking on my two feet, you know?