We LOVE October...

I was back to work this week with Broker Town Hall meetings, a new listing, Broker Network property tour, etc.  This beautiful family home with a new kitchen and a gorgeous fireplace went under contract in 2 days.  What a blessing for the sellers.
Midweek we drove back to CV to take care of several things.  The weather forecast called for freezing temperatures at night.  We harvested 16 pumpkins, dried plums and nectarines from our generous neighbors and covered our tomatoes at night.  It's a good thing too.  Gone are the squash, beans and pumpkin plants.  Our tomatoes survived.  The deer and elk have been after our garden and fruit trees too.  Jameson and Korinne are helping with the plums.

Thursday night, we were able to attend the CV Realtors Fall Family Fun event at the America West Heritage Center.  They had games, a jump house, hay bales for crawling up and over, train and pony rides, pizza, hot chocolate, kettle corn, a bucking bull ride and an extensive corn maze.

 It was a chilly night so we appreciated the hot chocolate and the fire pits.  It was a really NICE family event.  Thanks, Adam, for inviting us.

Friday night I was in the charge of the dinner for our ward's annual Relief Society Retreat held at a beautiful cabin in Bear Lake.  We had a scrumptious potato bar with lots of toppings and Asian chicken salad, plus home baked cookies.  It turned out great so I was happy about that.  I opted not to spend the night and rode back down the canyon with three other gals.  It was a great evening.  The Relief Society presidency did a FANTASTIC job planning and putting that delightful event together.

 I wanted to attend the Providence Days events the next day.  Britton was in the parade as a student city council representative.  Of course, Jameson and Korinne loved all the candy that was thrown throughout the short parade.  They also served spud nut donuts.

 After the parade, we checked out the local vendor booths and the car show.  The weather was crisp but sunny so a lot of cars were brought to the show.

 We took a picture of this Volkswagon bus that was very similar to the one Steve drove on his mission as he visited and trained elders throughout his mission.

 After the parade and activities, Steve and I did a few errands and then took advantage of the good weather to work in the yard.  His leg has healed enough that he was able to mow the grass by dividing it up into two days--the front on Friday and the back on Saturday.  We also filled the garbage can with frosted vines from the garden.  It was almost dark by the time we cleaned out and separated the iris plants all along the south side of the house.  We are willing to share starts as we have more than we can use now.
We went to the local Sauerkraut Turkey Dinner that is part of the annual celebration.  This community was settled by Swiss immigrants, including my great grandfather, Jacob Spori, who lived here before his mission to Turkey and Palestine, so the sauerkraut tradition is a long standing one.
We thoroughly enjoyed our "lupper"- late lunch combined with early supper as we ate about 4 o'clock.

Back at home, we finished dividing the iris plants and froze a bunch of plums for later use.  Then I needed to finish preparing my primary lesson for Sunday.

Throughout the day, we had frequent communication via text with Libbie and Jeff who were in the middle of Hurricane Matthew.  Fortunately, it wasn't a direct hit, but it was a fierce storm with a lot of damage.  We are grateful that they were safe and protected but suffered the discomforts of howling winds, flooding rains, blown down trees,  damage to piers, beaches and surroundings and a loss of power for about 24 hours.  We are so grateful that it wasn't worse. 

 Steve took these wonderful photos this morning showing the beauty of autumn from our front and back yards.  The trees in our neighborhood are amazingly red and we thoroughly enjoy looking at them.  God's handiwork surrounds us in this community!  We feel very blessed.