Phoebe and I made yeast bread.
With Elizabeth gone, we've got to pick up the slack on the baking.
And I do mean 'slack.'
The above was our first attempt. It was my fault. I told Phoebe to microwave the water for, like, two minutes. And then I told her sometimes really hot water could kill yeast, but I'm sure this time it would be fine.
It was not fine.
But the second attempt was delicious.
We carved pumpkins!
Way too early. They are dying.
The roasted pumpkin seeds were a hit.
I want to be sure and make the garlic ones again next year. And work on the sweet and spicy ones. They needed more salt or something.
Our pumpkins by daylight.
We said goodbye to Charlie the Beta Fish.
He was so sad and still and wouldn't eat. But he was surprisingly alive every new morning. So we googled a humane way to put him to sleep. Now he sleeps beneath our Purple Heart plant.
Phoebe spent hours curling her hair just because, so I had to get a picture.
And we spent this past weekend at a cabin at Paradise Canyon.
This is our way of camping without a tent.
We found Paradise Canyon when Liz' youth group hosted the senior's graduation party here this past year. It was such a fun cool respite and we wanted to come back.
The water was a little cold this time of year. But it's wading friendly in a lot of spots. And we were able to tube down it on Saturday with hardly anyone else in the water. There was a small baptism service on one end and a couple of people fishing on the other.
The cabin was so cute and cozy! Harrison is cracking pecans.
Jonathan is our main fire starter these days.
No S'mores for us this time!
They were just too sweet last time we had them. So we roasted bacon and bits of canned rolls. You have to do the roll dough just right so that it will stay on the stick while you turn it and not burn it. We might try canned biscuits next time.
We had very intermittent internet and phone service. It was so nice for all of us to get a little bored and just spend time together. We missed Liz though.
It was the perfect weather.
Seventy-one on Saturday. Cool enough at night that you want to cozy up to the fire. Absolutely a wonderful time.
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