Ready for a new season!

Happy first Sunday of November! A beauty of a day, what a treat! We haven't seen the sun much in the past week. Lots of rain, wind, cool temperatures. But today, it is sunny and warmish. As I'm writing the blog, I can see how the sun is starting to fade away. With the return of Daylight Saving Time, it is quite noticeable. Having said this, we did get 50 minutes of extra sleep....couldn't quite make it to one hour...my fault. I woke up, started to move and that was the signal for the pooches to make their way up to our faces and lick us silly. I will admit though that this day seems long somehow.

So, we're ready for the next season. Today, we blew and bagged more leaves. We put away the patio chairs and some garden ornaments. Our Fall Mums are done and will soon be replaced with festive planters. On that note, on Halloween Day, I went to Loblaws and sure enough, the Christmas planters were out. Crazy!

Halloween Day came and went. It was raining so we had about 30 kids in total. Not bad for a rainy night. At 7 pm, we turned the lights off and had dinner. It was a good day as we had my childhood friend over for lunch with Brian. It was a very nice get together and we had lots to talk about, catching up on old stuff. Denise brought a homemade apple pie for dessert. Yummy!

Give the rainy weather last week, I spent some time doing tricks with Coop and Spicy. Cooper learned a new one last week at Fun Obedience, it's called Sit Pretty. It didn't take him long to get it. I also taught Spicy the same trick as well as how to spin right....up to now, she would only spin left no matter what we did. So, thanks to a few tips from Wanda, I persevered and yesterday morning, she did a left and right spin. She was over the moon happy to please me! So, the Spice girl now has a few tricks up her sleeve. Next one to teach her will be "weave" through our legs in a figure eight pattern. Cooper has that one down pat. Those fun tricks keep them busy and challenged, especially on rainy days. It's fun for us and for them, a win win... and they get to show off when we have guests over!

Not much else is going on. This month has just begun and I feel like it will be over before we know it. Everything is about Christmas now.....well, almost.... lots will be happening, or not, in the US on Tuesday. Crazy times going on in this world that we live in. On a brighter note, in a month or so, Russell and I will be going to Toronto and Niagara-on-the-Lake for a little getaway. We look forward to it.

That's my blog for today. It's almost dinner time for Cooper & Spicy and it's getting dark....but the mornings are brighter now, it's a good thing. I leave you with a potpourri of photos. Check out my new Havanese socks, thank you Russell! Have a great week everyone!

Spicy and Cooper were quick to investigate my new
havi-socks...apparently they approve.

My new socks with photos of Spicy and Cooper...
how special are these!

Christmas anyone....the seasons collide...on Halloween Day
the Christmas planters are out at Loblaws.

Spicy and Cooper sat patiently for their official
Halloween photo...complete with zombie eyes.

The Japanese cut leaf maple in our front yard in full
Fall colour...a deep red!

Not to be out done by a maple, the larch in the backyard
in brilliant yellow...stunning in full sun.

Found this stray leaf in our backyard...any botanists know
what plant/tree it comes form....looks suspicious?!