Goodbye Fall, Hello White Sh… Stuff

It’s been a few days since my last post, but life’s been kicking up the busy recently.  I don’t know why, but Melissa and I just get stuck in these weird periods when we suddenly have a crazy influx of appointments and meetings and family events that just keep us constantly on the go for a few days.  Then, nothing.  Which is nice, cause now I can catch up on some posts!  Hence, the events in this post happened over 2 weeks ago, back when Fall was still nice and the bitter cold of winters’ creeping hands couldn’t be felt. It’s ironic too, that as I’m writing this, we are getting hit with our first dump of snow.  So, I guess this will be my farewell to Fall, even though Halloween has yet to pass!

About three weeks ago, I wrote about a walk in the woods near my place, and I said at the time that I might have been a little premature in expecting a vibrant display of Mother Natures Fall colors.  Well, after a busy Thanksgiving weekend, which I’ll be telling you about soon, we decided to head out for another walk, and this time we hoped Sam would stay awake and see some colors!  Well, he stayed awake and as you can see from the pic on the left, we got some serious color action!  We then found a quiet part of the forested area to sit down in some leaves and just let Sam explore.  We, of course took some pics, way to many to post here and way to many to be healthy. ;) The weather was nice and the sun kept poking through some shoddy clouds that didn’t offer much resistance.  It was quiet too.  No car noise or other people around being annoying.  Just us and a pile of leaves, and a few curious squirrels.

Sammy and Dad enjoying the leaves

Sam and Mom taking a seat

A good Samaritan squirrel took a family pic for us. He was nice, if a little nuts.

 

We spent a good lazy hour tossing leaves around, playing peek-a-boo and spinning Sam around and through the air a bit, then headed for home as somebody was getting a little cranky because he was a little hungry!  Yeah well, I only had a quick sandwich for lunch alright! I was starved!  Frolicking and merry making family style takes it’s burden on a man!  Should have brought some crackers and cheese… Mmmmmm… Cheese.   When we got home, we decided that five gigs of photos wasn’t enough.  So we propped Sam up on our decorative hay stack and pumpkin outdoor deco and took a few terabytes more pictures… You know, just in case the other thousand come out bad.  Ah to be trigger happy, gone gaga parents in the digital age.  Sam’s only 8 months old and he’s got more documented about his life than Jesus! ;)  And yes folks, Sammy-boy does look pretty kick-ass in his bomber jacket huh?  Before you say it, or think it, or comment it below, we didn’t buy it for him, his Aunt did.  So we are not that gaga.  Close.  But not yet!  OK, gotta run as I’ve got a few Halloween things to prepare and with only 2 days left… time is tight!  Take care!