I've had a bit more free time now that grad school is over, and it's allowed me to do a whole lot of the things that I've had to put off for a while.
I was able to spend a good bit more time in the garden, and though everything is pretty much dead now, I did manage to pick these pretty nifty colored carrots.
I picked some chestnuts out of my Papa's garden in an attempt to make a type of peanut butter out of them. It took HOURS. The end result was an oatmeal-y paste that tasted like baby food.
Yellowhed wanted to pick apples again, so we checked out one of our favorite orchards. Unfortunately, the rest of the state had the same idea, because there was easily 500 people there that evening (literally). It took us 45 minutes just to battle traffic up the driveway.
Found my Dad a Halloween costume.
It didn't turn out as pretty as I was hoping, but I finally finished the river rock travel chess board that I've been working on. I got the rocks from a local stream, used a dremel to etch out the shapes I wanted, filled the shapes with acrylic paint, and then glossed over the stones to give them a wet look.
Now my little sister and I can play at the beach without the pieces blowing all over the place again.
Yellowhed had to work Halloween, so I spent the day hiking one of the most beautiful peaks I know.
We made pumpkins.
Annnnd, with the fall weather killing off all the underbrush and ticks, I've started going out geocaching again. Here's the one I found yesterday.
