Spooky Decor and VOTE!

Hello my dear readers!  Thanks for stopping by!  I got a new Halloween paper lantern, my old one had seen better days.  This one is fun and bright, I also got some new lights, little lighted pumpkins with witches hats on.  :-)

Kristi got this one a few years back.

Here is my ghost bride, her veil is off, I need to attach it to her head again.  :-)

And my full-sized skeleton Dayle brought home for me a few years ago.  I thought he might look fun in our new rocking chairs on the front porch.  :-)

My small girl skeleton wearing a pretty purple party frock.

When I returned home after swimming on Wednesday, I had the sun-roof open and I just sat there for a bit and admired the red leaves appearing on the Pin Oak tree.

And yellow leaves on the weeping Birch trees.

Yesterday I volunteered at Multnomah Falls and Dayle picked me up at 5 pm, then we headed East up the Columbia River Gorge to find somewhere to have dinner.  

The sun was low in the sky.

We decided on Clark & Lewie's which is right on the river in Stevenson, Washington.

There was live music and beautiful rosy colored mountains across the river in Oregon.

The musicians took a break, they were pretty good!

There are photos of this place on the wall from a LONG time ago, so this place has quite a long history.

Our ballot has arrived for the midterm elections.  I *LOVE* voting by mail!  You can really study who you're voting for, googling for information so you're making a good choice.  We need more balance in Washington DC, please vote!!

We are electing our governor - it's hotly contested - millions of dollars have been spent on tv ads.  We can't wait for this to be over, we hope our candidate wins and we are sick of the attack ads.

I wanted to show you my two stems of cotton bolls in an old crockery jug that Kristi inherited from her father, I think it's a perfect place for them.

I think of my mom and her family picking cotton - not that it was fun or easy as mom told terrible stories of how the prickles would hurt her hands and they'd be bleeding from it - but having these reminds of of how poor and struggling my family was in those years.

We have been having an infestation of "boxelder or stink bugs" during the warm weather and this is the side of our house right now.  Isn't it awful?  Do you have anything like this at your house?

OK.. off I go to swim, thankfully it's a gloriously sunny day again.  ((hugs)), Teresa :-)