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<\/a><\/p>\nI have been painting two pictures. \u00a0Painting paint by number pictures has become my new obsession. \u00a0I can get lost for hours applying paint to a picture as it slowly begins to look like something. \u00a0Sometimes when you are up close to a picture you are painting, it just looks like blobs of paint and then you step back and see the picture. \u00a0I take pictures in progress to really see what they look like. \u00a0I am loving this picture. First one I painted with 36 color paints instead of the standard 24 I have used in the past. Some of the numbers \u00a0to be painted are sometimes difficult to see even with my lighted magnifying glass.<\/p>\n
I just ordered another picture to paint and there are others I would like to get eventually. Now I am going to have to find a wall to hang them all on.<\/p>\n
David was off for a week so we took a road-trip. \u00a0Back \u00a0country roads, as usual. Indiana is glorious in the Autumn. With my trusty driver and partner in crime off we go. We both thought this one was especially pretty. I took a picture of this stool because I want \u00a0David to build one like it to set a couple of plants on in my greenhouse. The night before they got married was Halloween and for the first time since our children were young, we got to take part in handing out candy to kids. \u00a0It was so much fun. \u00a0Across the street, a man was actually serving hotdogs. He made 300 and they were all taken by the end of the evening. We even got some. \u00a0And he was dressed up like a hotdog and his wife as a bottle of ketchup. \u00a0How fun was that? \u00a0We saw all kinds of costumes. One family had dressed their baby as a little mouse, set him in a wagon and had made a mousetrap that fit over the baby and wagon. \u00a0It was so darn cute. Saw Where\u2019s Waldo, soldiers, princesses. There were a lot of teenagers trick or treating also which I found quite reassuring. They all were so polite. There was only one boy, who grabbed a whole handful of the candy, but his father made him put all but one back which was good parenting. \u00a0I saw on Facebook where a woman was shown on camera dumping a whole bowl of candy into her child\u2019s sack. \u00a0People had left the bowl out believing people would be honest and not take more than one piece. \u00a0That woman was teaching g her child a very bad thing. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yep, here she is. Annie, stripper extraordinaire. \u00a0Isn\u2019t she beautiful! \u00a0Actually this is their darling dog. \u00a0She is so sweet<\/p>\n Our daughter-in-law loves decorating for Halloween. Annie even dressed as a bee. Some trees are just perfect.
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\nI am just going to show you the beautiful foliage we saw as we drove. \u00a0Enjoy the view.
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\nYou can\u2019t be in Indiana without seeing cornfields. \u00a0This is ready to be picked. \u00a0As a farmer\u2019s daughter, I love seeing these ripe fields of corn and soybeans and always hope the farmers have a bumper crop.
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\nWe crossed this bridge that had been spray painted probably by some teenagers having fun. \u00a0I rather like it.
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\nLots of colors. \u00a0Maybe there is an artist beating in their breasts!
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\nWe got on a wrong road which turned into the right road because we came upon this beautiful lake out in the middle of nowhere. \u00a0Houses surrounded it.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nLots of old barns on the backroads.<\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nOur duck passengers enjoy the ride.
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\nTrump McDuck is telling his little friend he is going to rename Indiana Trumpiana.
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\nMinnie and Ice Cream duck just ignore him.
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\nWe have had some beautiful sunsets this Autumn. This doesn\u2019t do it justice.
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\nWe had the full Hunter\u2019s moon. It was so big and bright. \u00a0Seen through a dirty windshield.
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\nThrough more towns with murals on the buildings. \u00a0That seems to be the thing now. \u00a0Murals. \u00a0I do like seeing them and they do brighten up the landscape.
\nWe drove to Cincinnati to our son\u2019s house. His stepson, whom we have never met because he lives in England, was visiting with his fianc\u00e9 who he was going to marry in the states. She is from Lithuania.
\nThey went to the justice of the peace. They didn\u2019t want anyone there, just them but we all met afterward at a little out of the way farm where there was an antique store and another little store and a place to sit outside under the trees.
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\nIt was a beautiful place to sit outside and there was even a sandbox where children could play while their parents were at the tables eating lunch or having a drink.
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\nThis is the sandbox along with toys in it to play <\/a>with.<\/p>\n
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\nThis is the happy couple. They are showing their cheap, plastic rings they got married with. They are having their real rings being made over in England. I enjoyed meeting them. Both very nice people and she is a hoot. Would love to get to know them better.<\/p>\n
\nOur sonwas telling me about the stag party the guys had for the soon to be groom. All they did was sit outside smoke cigars and drink a beer. Oh, and they had a stripper. \u00a0Here she is.<\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0 yep<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nSadly we had to head home after a fun weekend, but we took the long way home along the Ohio River.
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\nThrough wonderful river towns. We have several of those in southern Indiana. \u00a0I love the houses in those towns. Let me show you a few of them.
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\nThis is Lanier house in Madison.
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\nTwo toned house in one town.
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\nIn one town the courthouse trees had been toilet papered heavily. \u00a0Must have taken rolls and rolls of toilet paper to do it. \u00a0Remember when we had a toilet paper shortage during the Biden years? \u00a0Must be a lot around now.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nWe just love back roads.
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\nMagical.<\/p>\n