Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring. ~ Doug Larson

Yep, that’s me. I detest winter that much… I’m so not a winter person!

• Signs of Autumn
• Other Signs of Autumn
• Winter has been hard
• Winter Blues
• Everyone is Staring at Me

Seriously, “my” deer are so crazy. I look out the front door and what do I see?

They were out in the street, eating the acorns.

When I say in the street…I mean smack in the middle of the street! They really like those smashed acorns from the cars running over them.

I guess the deer not only love to eat my tulips, but they’re going to graze in the street for acorns this fall too. Really strange seeing them right out the front door grazing in the street. Not a care in the world. Crazy deer.

Here’s a hint for the silly deer…there is a big old WOODS right BEHIND the house. Try there. It’s safer!

• A Dear Deer Story
• And then there were
• I Don’t Know What it is, but I want it
• The Menacing Deer
• The other thing about deer

SuperGuy really, really wanted October’s Photo of the month theme to be cheese!

He had many variations on this shot.

Did I mention many variations?

He set the silly cheese, crackers, and wine up all over the lawn trying to get the perfect shot.

When he was all finished? What else was there to do but sit down and enjoy a rare bit of sunshine and enjoy the wine and cheese.

• March Photo of the Month Theme
• Sept Photo of the Month Winner and Oct Theme
• Fabulous Swiss Cheese Fondue
• September Photo of the Month Contest
• Life in Focus-Catching Some Rays

We had fantastic entries this month for our October Photo of the Month Contest! The theme was Fall. Obviously, this was a much better theme than last month! We have some new people entering their photos too. Thanks for joining us. I added some titles to photos that didn’t have them and I’ve put some comments on some of the photos…just because I can

I hate to do this, but I had to split the entries between two pages since there were so many entries. I was afraid if I put them all in on one page, it would take the blog forever to load. So make sure you click on the more link to see the second half the of photos and to vote! Vote for your favorite 3 photos!

The photographer’s name is below their entry.

Riet ~  Fall at the River

Capricorn Cringe ~ Through the BluBlocker Sunglasses

Hilary ~ Studio Autumn

Kari H ~ You’re Buggin’ Me (I titled it for her, just because that’s what my boys used to say…also, Kari is sister to Katie L, below. A little sisterly rivalry is good, right??)

Marcie ~ Mighty Mites

Anna B ~  Fall Cold (love the title!)

Sue ~ Withered

Mental P Mama ~  Mama Hits the Road (okay, this title rocks too!)

CLICK ON THE MORE LINK FOR MORE PHOTOS AND TO VOTE!!

Okay, more entries!

Shirley ~  Under the Canopy

Ann Marie ~ Autumn Glory

Cristy ~  Corn without the icopia (okay, there are a LOT of great titles this month!)

Mary ~  Still Water

Katie L ~ Sugar (sister to Kari H, above. Let the rivalry begin!)

Kate (Chronicles of a Country Girl) ~ Pumpkin Top

Kindergarten Girl ~ Fall Captured by Cell Phone

Heidi ~  Wood Smoke

Andrea ~ Sincere in the Pumpkin Patch

Annie B (Tombstone Chronicler) ~ Against the Sky

Crazy Daisy ~ Loving the Leaves

SuperGuy ~ Have Some Cheese
(I guess this is his payback when we laughed at him for suggesting CHEESE for this month’s theme! )

Kacey ~ Fall Flowers

Vote for your favorite 3 Photos of the Month!
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

• July Photo of the Month
• Sept Photo of the Month Winner and Oct Theme
• January 09 Photo of the Month Contest
• March Photo of the Month Contest
• Photo of the Month Reminder for February

You guys know I adore SuperGuy, right? Well, my dear husband surprises me with little things. Like, for instance, he knows of my addiction rather strong liking of all things candy corn.

Remember last year when I discussed how candy corn with the “chocolate” layer in it is just WRONG? I’m a candy corn purist.

Speaking of purist…he showed up with this bag of candy corn for me. Yes, the generic grocery store brand of candy corn.

It. Was. Horrid.

Now I realize that candy corn has no redeeming nutritional value…but, still… how can you ruin it? Give me back my BRACH’S candy corn!!

While it is truly the thought that counts…and it was so nice of SuperGuy that

) he thought of me when he was out grocery shopping

2) he was grocery shopping in the first place

3) he remembered that I love candy corn

I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to add a new rule to my candy corn addiction. No “chocolate” layer. Has to be Brach’s.

But thank you, honey. It really is the thought that counts!

Be sure and check back tomorrow. I’ll have the photo of the month contest up. We had a ton of entries and they are great! See you then.

(what is YOUR candy of choice??)

• No Willpower
• Why is this Still Around?
• When you need chocolate RIGHT NOW
• Yet Another Addiction
• A mother daughter moment

Make. It. Stop.

) Basement Flooding

2) Roof over my office leaking…on my deak…on the floor…everywhere

3) Not related to the rain but the upstairs bathroom leaked into my kitchen…through my newly painted kitchen ceiling 

We took everything off the shelves in the basement. Had to throw out a bunch of stuff. Considering renting a dumpster… SuperGuy is patching up where he sees the leak, and painting something called ugly (UGL) on it. I think we’re going to have to put in a sump pump $$.

So, I’ll be back on Monday…if I don’t float away. Have a great and spooky Halloween. We’re supposed to go to a neighborhood BBQ in the cul de sac…you know, if it quits raining.

Don’t forget to send in your Fall Photo for the October Photo of the Month Contest!

• Shooter’s Choice-Photo of the Month Contest
• Call for October Photo of the Month Submissions
• The other thing about deer
• Kitchen Remodel 101
• Exhausted

Okay, this is the official call for October’s Photo of the Month photos. This month our theme is FALL.

Either link to your submission in the comments on this post, or use the contact button up in the menu bar on the blog to send me a link to your photo. You have until October 31st, midnight to enter the contest.

As an aside…did you notice there wasn’t a blog post yesterday. I forgot to post one!! 

• Shooter’s Choice-Photo of the Month Contest
• July 09 Photo of the Month Theme and Other Ramblings
• March Photo of the Month Submissions
• Red, White, and Blue-Call for Submissions
• June Photo of the Month Reminder

Really, is it EVER going to stop raining? I’m SO over it. I think we’re on track for record rainfall for October. How special.

You know my wonderful dogwood tree right out my bedroom window? A storm came through last night…

Yep, stripped off the beautiful leaves. All that is left? Some bright red berries.

Berries covered in raindrops, I might add.

From our endless rain storms. Sigh. Are you getting all this rain where you live??

Of course SuperGuy someone now has a pretty big raking job in his future…

• Copy Cat
• Other Signs of Autumn
• Oh Look!
• The Burning Bush
• Meanwhile back at the Ranch

I don’t think it does, do you??? 

• The Winner Is…
• Deja Vu
• Kacey’s Cabled Cowl
• I Don’t Know What it is, but I want it
• I Can’t Believe I Missed It

One thing I love about fall? Apples!

Seriously. Crisp, cold apples. These are Granny Smith apples, probably my favorite. Well, except for when I’m baking apple pies. Then I use Jonathan apples. Why? Because my mother and my grandmother made apple pies from Jonathan apples, why else??

Apples are great dipped in caramel. Yum. [I did have dipped in Carmel, you know, like the place in California...]

Apples are also great to dip in my Fabulous Swiss Fondue.  Okay, okay…I confess…it’s SuperGuy’s recipe. I saw that he bought all the ingredients when he went to the grocery store this weekend. (I told you he was a keeper!). I’m hoping he’s going to make it for dinner. No, really, hop on over to that link and check out that recipe. To die for yummy.

Anyway, what was the point of this post???….. Oh, apples…I love ‘em. Do you have any to die for apple recipes? I need to dig up my apple crisp recipe and share it with you…

• Easy 1 2 3 Bread
• Pork Tenderloin Recipe
• Apple Pie
• It Is the Thought That Counts
• Peter Piper