Just a long ramble tonight...

I just walked Hobo. We walk every evening, usually after the kids go to sleep, sometimes after dinner if Luis isn't busy with a project. Tonight wasn't our longest walk (30 blocks), but it was our best time. 20 blocks in 22 minutes. Woohoo!

Today's science club activity was at a local state park - a tree walk, nature scavenger hunt and then a chromotography discussion. I even learned something, what makes the leave yellow/red/orange/purple/brown in the fall.

We had our first soup night of the fall yesterday. Soup night is when I make a couple of large batches of soup or chili and a bunch of bread, then we invite a bunch of interesting people over for dinner. Whoever can make it, comes, but we never have any idea what type of group will show up for sure. I tried cream of broccoli soup yesterday, and it was very good.

We picked up three more chickens last Friday. I didn't want to pay shipping, and I didn't want to get 2 month old birds this close to winter, so I found someone through the Backyard Chickens' board who lived about 1.5 hours away and had grown hens we could have. I picked up two Rhode Island Reds (1 year old) and a Brown Leghorn (6 months old) for myself, plus two birds for my friend P. Even with the stress of moving them, we've gotten two eggs every day so far. Can I just say that it is SO COOL to go out to the garage and come back with eggs? I can't wait for the others to start laying. One or two are very very close to being ready to lay, the others need to grow a little more still.

Abigail has her first Brownies meeting tomorrow night. She is very excited about the idea of Brownies. I hope the leader and the other girls are nice.

I have finished another pair of socks for Isabella. I've also almost finished the second sleeve on the cable weave sweater, but I've realized I do not have enough yarn for the neckline. I called the store I bought the yarn at (an hour away) and luckily they had some left. They are shipping it to me. I've also got one sleeve on my Rosemary's Sweater nearly complete. I've completely stalled on the Jig sweater. Maybe once I get some of the other projects actually finished, I'll be ready to pick that up again.