Photos

As you may have guessed from my very creative title, I've got a couple of new photos.



The other evening Kenrick lined up his Matchbox cars very precisely across the dining room floor. Precisely where we wanted to walk, of course.

The corn harvest is well on its way. I stopped yesterday to get a quick pic.

As you can see in the background, the trees are still quite green. We haven't really had cold enough nights to make the leaves turn colors yet. Good for corn picking, but it doesn't quite feel like fall.

The pumpkin harvest is also in full swing. Yes, pumpkins. There are a few packing plants in the area, so the farmers rotate the gourds in with the corn and beans every now and then. The pumpkins are kind of light yellow, fairly small, and handled a little differently than your familiar supermarket jack-o-lantern.

That's a row of stacked 'kins being lifted and hurled into a wagon. From the field they are usually piled into big open-top semi-trailers and hauled to the packing plant where they are unceremoniously dumped into a hopper for processing. I don't know what happens after that, but somehow they come out the other end in nice little cans. The breeze sometime smells like cooked pumpkin.

The boys seem to be showing an aptitude for bicycle maintenance. Notice the expert use of the chain cleaner. Wait, I think it's upside down.

This weekend we've enjoyed having Jean and Terry from Boise come and stay. Terry had some business in Chicago and Jean had some business with Andrea, so they took advantage of the timing and came down for a visit. The boys took to both of them pretty quickly, especially since Jean was willing to read them a few books.

I took Terry and the boys out to the park on Saturday to do a little orienteering. The local club was having an event in honor of National Orienteering Day so we picked the shortest of the three courses and took a leisurely hike through the woods. The boys did very well. Some of the terrain was a little rough for Anthony's short legs, but they both enjoyed finding the way-point flags and punching the score card to prove we'd found them all.