This, That & Everything

I've snapped some photos over the last 3 days and this post will be a bit of a mishmash... but what-EVAH, :-)  The photo below is our back door and the sun was shining in illuminating my Autumn wreath and I thought it was pretty.  

Come on in! Nice to see you! :-)

Below is a shot of hubby cutting the pasture on the hillside behind the house.  He's wearing his new straw woven hat made in Africa that we got at the fiber festival.

Last evening we went out to dinner at Tad's Chicken'n Dumplins which is just down the Sandy River from us, less than a 10 minute drive from our house.  It's a very old restaurant and very beloved not only with those in our rural community, but people come from all over the Portland Metro area to dine here.  Here is the view from our table of the sun going down over the river.  Hubby had their Fried Chicken and I had grilled salmon.  Simply divine.  :-)

Here's their classic neon sign.. the funny thing is half the neon burned out YEARS ago, and so everyone calls it the "Chic Dump".  Also funny is that they never fixed this side of the sign for old times sake, the other side is fully illuminated.  Don't you love it?

Our new koi, Tiger, is doing well.

We have a few hydrangea flowers that managed to make it after hubby's chop job. :-)

Below is the deck in the sunshine... see hubby's red banana?  He wintered our last one over for 3 years but this year it finally bit the dust.  Here's the new baby red banana.

My good blog friend, Kate from The Garden Bell has been having fun with Pinterest and I noticed that she liked cobalt blue glass.. so I photographed my special art glass punch bowl for her.  I was looking on eBay for a punch bowl and found this one... it's got several Indians on horseback chasing buffalo all around it in a hunt.  I had to have it.  Isn't it neat?  Do any of you know anything about this bowl?

Below is one of the Indians shot from the inside of the bowl.

One of the buffalo running for it's life.

This afternoon, Kristi, our DIL who is married to our youngest son Travis, called and said that Caleb wanted to see "Papa and Gamma"... so she brought them out for a nice visit.  Here is 3 yr old Hayden on the left and 2 yr old Caleb.. I'm holding this fun toy that they can put balls in and the they roll down a spiral and land on the bottom.  They had a lot of fun, soon Caleb was up on my lap and shrieking with joy at the balls spinning around.

They they wanted to go outside even if it was misting.. and here they are at the top of the creek of our waterfall and Hayden has his arms around Grandpa's Chinese warrior - a copy of one from the terracotta warriors that they found in China.  If you don't know about this amazing archaeological discovery, you should google it! :-)

We fed the fish and all 5 of them came out for dinner.

Caleb saying "CHEEEEEEEEESE" and playing on the deck.

Autumn weather is in full force here.  Cloudy and misty.  But we're watching Antique Roadshow on Oregon Public Broadcasting in front of our cozy fire.  Ain't life grand?

I'll leave you with that cute little boy face smiling and hope that you're having a happy weekend.

((hugs)), Teresa :-)