It didn't rain on my parade

The skies have opened up and poured upon us for the past several days. That's good news for my neglected mums, but bad news for those of us hoping to do some autumnal celebrating. (Ok, I am not sure what autumnal celebrating is, but I so love using the word "autumnal" and by celebrating I mean long drives down gravel roads taking photos of the leaves in full color, packing a lunch and eating it during a little geocaching or something as simple as drinking coffee on the patio at Starbucks, none of which can be accomplished in the rain.)

Yesterday a much anticipated order was delivered, Kissed Knitter will tell you all about it. Long awaited needle set for her, Knitting on The Road by Nancy Bush, Andean Treasure alpaca yarn in Sunset (aka pumpkin) and patterns for me. Good mail is good stuff. (And I still have a deal in the works with Needlefingers via Kaleidoscope Yarns.)

And that meant a visit with Kissed Knitter, being as she had to come and pick up her stuff and all! Those are too few and far between. Why is that?

I had also made some plans with a friend and her two-year-old to pick out pumpkins. A cold, dark and rainy afternoon did make for a short visit to the orchard, but it was a good one none-the-less, as I carried home two pumpkins. One just seemed kinda lonely and everyone needs a friend, right? And two candied apples for my beloved. I must admit that I heard a collective sigh of relief on behalf of our cats when the active toddler left our household. A cat can only take having its hair rubbed the wrong way, its nose touched or loud, shrill screams for so long.

I dug out the pumpkin carving stuff this morning and even though we are expecting a weekend full of more wet weather, we can at least look forward to creating a masterpiece, eating all of the Halloween candy we have amassed thus far and maybe watching (against my will) "The Omen*" and maybe "Monster House". Oh and knitting on Green Gable, which is actually Brown Gable, as I chose to make mine in "truffle".

*"The Omen" is the one movie that literally creeped me out for days after watching it. Something about inherent evil in a person simply was too much.

A shot of a white pumpkin amongs the gourds at the orchard last night.