It’s somehow October- and the year is both going by faster and slower then I ever thought possible. Can we PLEASE just get to January 20th already? Fun fact- that just reminded me that I texted all my friends the REM song “Its the End of the World” on that date in 2016. I was TRYING to be funny. Little did I know.

Random Funny Things Lately:

That last one reminds me that it IS the start of fall ’round there here parts!

So it also means it’s this season!

I added some calacas (that’s skeletons to folks who don’t own this) and they are WAY bigger than I expected them to be- I’m pretty thrilled with them:

In other news we went “camping” last weekend. (Was a cabin, and therefore didn’t count as real camping. Well, it kinda counts as it was the world’s shittiest cabin.) We were scoping out places to hold our annual friend’s group camping trip. (Sounds irresponsible I know but… okay it kinda is. All families have been generally careful other than this thing though) This place was NOT gonna be it, unfortunately.

And the campground cat was sweet:

And the nighttime stroll under a full moon was awesome:

That campground used to be my FAVORITE place ever- we used to camp there when I was a kid but the new owners have trashed the ever loving HELL out of it. Place has so much potential too, there were monarchs in the trees, birds, awesome old trees, beautiful bluffs, clean and clear river. But the worlds trashiest cabins, for some reason an exotic animal park, and they’ve let the best primitive camping area degenerate into a totally unusable area covered in downed trees. The place itself remains and may we win the lottery so my husband and I could buy it.

It was nice to get away though.

And yet the pandemic drags on.

And finally, here’s a cactus: