{I Heart Fall}

I'm not really even trying to knock things off of my

 Autumn List

but I can cross off several already.

I made these pumpkin bars. Yum.

Tried this at Starbucks yesterday. Yum.

And we made a trip to the Pumpkin Patch last week.

We made a quick trip to our local Pumpkin Patch because I wanted 

pumpkins for the kids' Birthday Party this past weekend.

We'll go again to get our pumpkins for carving later.

Oh, how I wish I lived on a farm and had my own little pumpkin patch.

Wouldn't that be fun?

I mean, a lot of work, but fun, too.

We went after school and there was hardly anyone there, not crowded at all. We had the slide and the maze and the climbing thing to ourselves. It was fun and peaceful and it was a gorgeous Fall day. 

We won't even talk about how I made a wrong turn when we left though, just because I was
daydreaming and it added about a half hour onto our drive home....oops.
Other than that and the fear that I might really run out of gas, it was perfect.
You know, not perfect-perfect but perfect enough for me.

I love the white pumpkins, and the gray-blue ones. I love the bumpy, warty-looking

 ones and the bright orange perfectly shaped ones.
I just love how my pumpkins and mums look on the front porch.
I love the leaves and the acorns, all of it.

 I love Fall, I really do.

This gorgeous tree is right in my very own backyard.
We can see it form two of the upstairs bedroom windows.
We live in a 90+ year-old house whose backyard has been
sorely neglected for maybe the last twenty years.
At least.
Trees, grass, bushes, all of it...just ignored.
This tree is definitely the high point,  but I'll take it.

Is it Fall where you are? I really hope it is.

If it's not I would totally send you a big box full of leaves, acorns and buckeyes in the mail.

I really would.

I hope you are enjoying Fall where you are.

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