November has arrived

I’ve been having a strange time lately. My ex-step-dad (uh huh) has been extremely nice to me. It’s been nice, but … strange.

He arranged for my brother, his friend Jake, my sister, (with my mom) to all come  over and help take care of a bunch of things around our house.

They broke up and removed the concrete in front of our front stair case. That took some muscles. Believe me, I tried to smash some up, it’s harder than it looks.

We also cut down the giant pine tree that was in front of our house. I liked that tree. I’m pretty sad. But I think it was the smartest decision to make. It was dangerous, or would become dangerous, covered in ice, and the larger it got.

 

It came down very easily and was cut into pieces in no time.

My brother and I had matching butt holes today. LOL

 

My mom brought over the dogs, and a new Diego truck for Ben. He had a good day. Luckily he woke up early, we had the time change, so he took an early nap before everyone got there.

We’re stilllllllllllll raking leaves. We have a lot more to go. James even broke out the leaf blower today. It didn’t go any faster. It was just easier. Raking is really hard!

 

So, what do you think the insurance inspector would say now? LOL!

 

We need to start planning on what we’re going to put in front of the house now! We can actually grow something with that tree gone. And we need to! It looks so bare! We’re going to install a picket fence in the spring. But we need some sort of bush or something in front there.

 

I’m sure the village is going to be so happy when they come by to pick up “sticks and leaves” at our house! HA!

Halloween!

Friday Ingrid and Ben went trick-or-treating downtown Dexter. It was fun! I enjoyed going into all the shops, since I haven’t spent any time in town yet.

Later I took him downtown Ann Arbor, and just him and I hit up Mainstreet for some treats. It was fun, kind of wet, but he really enjoyed it. Then we met James and his parents for dinner at the Blue Tractor, which is always good. Good beer :) 

 

I made a cape for Woof. It was my second cape, and it was pretty funky. It wasn’t the shape I was aiming for, and it wasn’t easy to sew on the “W”.. I made some progress though, it’s a little better than Logan’s was.

 

When Halloween finally came I think Ben was a little tuckered out. After going twice on Friday, he was like ReallY? Again? I've never been into Halloween, but I knew he would enjoy it once we got going.

The first house was an old woman who invited them inside, which was pretty funny.

 

But after he warmed up to the idea, he started having a great time. We only did one block, up and down, but it was enough, it was pretty cold out. 

I took down all the Halloween stuff today, even tossed out the pumpkins, it was fun, but now it’s over. Whew. We have SO much candy. James bought 3 (!) more bags for trick-or-treaters, we ended up getting about six. So we have a LOT of candy.