{"id":7448,"date":"2017-10-17T00:21:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T00:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=7448"},"modified":"2017-10-17T00:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T00:21:07","slug":"october-how-i-love-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=7448","title":{"rendered":"October, How I Love You"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love the month of October. After March, April and May, it’s my favorite month.\u00a0 It usually starts getting cooler although we have had unseasonable temperatures for the last several days.\u00a0 Today it was in the sixties and I was loving it.\u00a0 I feel so much more energetic in cooler weather.\u00a0 The leaves on the trees are slow to change this year, but that’s okay.\u00a0 The longer the season lasts, the better.<\/p>\n

It’s been a busy month.\u00a0 Aren’t they all?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was telling a younger friend with young children not to expect to take time off when her children were grown because then the grandchildren come and there are things you want to do with them.\u00a0 We had fun at King’s Island with one set of grandchildren a\u00a0 couple of weeks ago and last week we spent time with the other set at Grandparents’ Days at their school.\u00a0 Our older grandchildren go to a wonderful Christian school where their mother also teaches.\u00a0 The school ranks #1 in college prep schools in Central Indiana and 98% of their graduates go on to college. Pretty impressive, I’d say.\u00a0 Our granddaughter will be graduating next Spring.\u00a0 I believe she and our grandsons have had an A-plus education.<\/p>\n

So Grandparents’ Day begins with a sign in and then like a bunch of ants at a picnic, the grandparents\u00a0swarm the tables with the coffee and donuts on them.\u00a0 They serve very good coffee and donuts.<\/p>\n

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Then they have chapel and our grandchildren join us.\u00a0 The first day our sixth grader was with us.<\/p>\n

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Let me just say that a few months ago, he was a short, little boy and now he’s taller than me(which isn’t hard as I am 5’1″) but almost as tall as his grandfather too.\u00a0 His voice is changing and he looks like a teen-ager all of a sudden.\u00a0\u00a0 Waaaaaaa!\u00a0 I told him it was just a short time ago I was babysitting him and he would sit on the piano bench and we would play the piano, neither one of us knowing how to play.\u00a0 He was a baby then. Such a short time ago.\u00a0 Such a nice\u00a0grandson.<\/p>\n

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He plays football.<\/p>\n

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Sings in the middle school choir.\u00a0 See, he is about a head taller than all the others.<\/p>\n

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His class is learning the entire book of James in the Bible and they got up and recited some of it.\u00a0\u00a0 He looks like he is really concentrating here.<\/p>\n

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This is his good friend who we adopted for the day as his grandparents couldn’t make it.\u00a0 A really nice boy.<\/p>\n

We took\u00a0him out to eat and told him he could order anything he wanted and his eyes lit up.\u00a0\u00a0Then back to school and we drove home to take care of the animals and then drove back up to Indianapolis to spend the night in order to go to the second Grandparents’ Day.<\/p>\n

With these two.<\/p>\n

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Our tenth grader and<\/p>\n

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our senior.\u00a0 She painted this mural and she is in the musical in a few weeks. Another trip to make.<\/p>\n

Once again the grandparents crowded the coffee table and donut table and then we sat down for chapel. Our granddaughter is part of the praise team. She said she was nervous about singing in front of us, but she seemed very composed and professional.<\/p>\n

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It so nice to see our grandchildren growing up to be the kind of people they are.\u00a0 So kind. So talented. So grounded.<\/p>\n

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This young man has my heart.\u00a0 He can make me laugh so easily, many times when we should not be laughing!\u00a0\u00a0 See that lady in black?\u00a0 She is from Scotland and her granddaughter is a good friend of our granddaughter.<\/p>\n

We took them both out to Five Guys, a hamburger joint and they got to order what they wanted and then back to school where our granddaughter had an interview for a scholarship.\u00a0 I hope she gets it.<\/p>\n

It was a fun two days.<\/p>\n

Driving home we drove through downtown Indianapolis. When I was young, I really thought this was the BIG city.\u00a0 Our senior class made a trip there and it was so much fun.\u00a0 Now I just can’t wait to get out of it.\u00a0 Too much traffic for me.<\/p>\n

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This is our state capitol.<\/p>\n

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The top of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ monument smack dab in the center of the city.\u00a0 I wish I had gotten a picture of the whole thing. I have\u00a0walked up to the top of this monument several times through the years.<\/p>\n

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Tall buildings. It’s not New York, but it’s big enough for me. This country girl likes dirt roads and trees and no traffic.<\/p>\n

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A very busy downtown.\u00a0 People out eating at restaurants, walking their dogs, skate boarding.\u00a0\u00a0 Fun to drive through. Wouldn’t want to live there.<\/p>\n

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The sky was so blue and it really was a pleasant day.<\/p>\n

On the way home we stopped at a quilt shop called The Back Door where I had a gift certificate to use. I was looking for background fabric for\u00a0the pumpkin quilt I am making.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course, I found more than I was looking for.<\/p>\n

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I just like this fabric and know I will use it in something so I bought a yard.<\/p>\n

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It’s hard to tell from this picture, but this fabric looks grey, but has a tinge of green in it. I like the little swirls all through it which remind me of pumpkin vines.\u00a0 I cut out most of the background pieces\u00a0for the quilt today.\u00a0 Hope I have enough of it.<\/p>\n

But what really caught my eye and made me swoon was this fabric.\u00a0 I almost didn’t get it as I really don’t need anymore fabric, but this is the\u00a0most beautiful fabric I have ever seen in my life.\u00a0 A masterpiece on fabric.\u00a0 A\u00a0Monet.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I just could not leave the store without it.<\/p>\n

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Just so incredibly beautiful. I bought three yards and wish I had bought five!\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t have a clue what I will make with this, but it has to be an especially wonderful quilt.\u00a0 I just love it.\u00a0 Did I say I liked this fabric?\u00a0 \u00a0I love it so much I made it my header for this blog.<\/p>\n

There are a few other things going on in my world, but that will wait for another day.\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n

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