A time to rest.

I drove by a neighboring farmer's home the other day and noticed all of his eight
tractors parked in a row. His combines and hay swathers, balers and plows
are all parked neatly in his equipment yard.
This can only mean one thing...
harvest time is over.
  

My own little harvest is finished here as well.

My mower and yard carts, pruners and clippers

and shovels and hoes are back in the garden shed for another season.

I brought the new turquoise bench in for the Winter and it will stay in the reading room

until next Summer.

Well, maybe not just this room. I have been known to move things around a lot.

Last week Dale's best friend had to come and help move our bedroom back to it's 

post Summer arrangement. He asked "didn't I just come the Spring and help move it here?"

You see, in the Summer, I always move the bed in front of the windows so we can enjoy

having the windows open for the breeze and then move it back before Winter.

I cut all the hydrangeas I wanted to cut before the hard frost came a few nights ago.

I'm so glad I did because it got so cold that all we have now are are crispy,

brown and black hydrangeas.

I have been watching the weather forecasts for over a week now so I could cut the last 

of the flowers

to have in the house for one last hurrah. 

I put bouquets in almost every room in the house.

When I went to IKEA in Draper, Utah, I got these 

woven hanging baskets for the bathroom.

I love them because they hold wash cloths and my makeup and keeps the clutter 

off the counter.

They make pretty cool bouquet holders too!

Roses on a shelf above the tub.

So before the hard frost I thought I would go out and pick one of everything still blooming.

This is the little pail of flowers.

Everything that I knew wasn't going to make it through the 20 degree low we had.

 Those are Landon's toys in the background you see on the floor in the above photo. 

I could have picked them up and shut the doors on the armoire,

 but it looks like this all the time.

If you came to my house and into this room you would be dodging

legos and all kinds of plastic toys on the floor.

This room and the kitchen is where we do most of our hanging out. 

So it is never really picked up.

Landon's preferred toy is a magazine to rip to shreds and so you can 

imagine what the room looks like half the time.  

This is a good day. 

The sweet peas are no more and the roses are now ragged in the garden.

So these blooms are the last of the Summer.

I will be buying my fresh flowers at the market from now on.

They made a lovely centerpiece for the coffee table in the living room.

I can't walk passed them without smiling.

As you can tell, I don't really do any seasonal decorating at my house.

I used to when all the children were home, but now the only only season I decorate for

is Christmas and a little bit for Easter.

I have more than a little bit of 'lazy' in me.

One awesome thing Dale and I did this Fall was go to a Autumn

barn dance that a local rancher holds in his barn every year.

He hires our daughter Kim's band, which plays a lot of country rock and 

opens the barn to anyone and everyone who wants to 

come out and have a great time. 

It is the best time for everyone in town to come together and socialize 

and dance the night away. It usually draws over 200 people.

Dale and I love to dance and I think we danced every dance the first hour of it.

The next day I could hardly walk!

Kim had my daughter Haylee and me come up to sing some songs with her.

We had so much fun!

I can hardly wait for the next one.

But my feet can!