Dave & I had a really nice weekend together.

Friday evening (Halloween) we sat on the porch and handed out candy.  We had fewer kids than last year, but we still had probably 60+ kids.  We’ve decided that since our house is situated off the street a bit, that kids seem to make a mental calculation of the ratio of potential candy to the distance they’d have to walk to get it.  We say this because we had every light on in the house AND a bright porch light AND we were sitting on the porch and still many kids kind of paused at the end of the drive-way and then walked on.  And we had good candy too…

Saturday we worked on cleaning up the site around the brand new frame for the sugarhouse (shed like building used to boil down maple sap into maple syrup) after the big wind storm took down all our protective tarps and plastic.   The frame wasn’t damaged a bit though, so that was good.  So instead of the walls & roof being a staged project over the next year or so we have to do it ASAP.  We also created a level area where the new evaporator will go when we pick it up in a few weeks.  The evaporator is going to get a real roof and walls now that we know a casual storm can knock out tarps and such.

Sunday we went to church and had a really nice day hanging out here at home.  Dave took care of leaves in the front yard and cleaned up the yard some too.

Today, I’ve got some running around to do so I’ll not be home most of the day.  Since the Farmer’s Markets are over, I’m going to try cutting my running around back to just a couple days a week again to save on gas and money spent.

I hope everyone has a great day!!