FALL BREAK 2011

I decided to take off work for the entire week of Fall Break this year. Normally I work part of the week, but I just needed a good break. The first four days we spent working around the house. There was plenty to do there and I didn't accomplish all that I wanted, but I did make a dent in things.
On Saturday, Handyman picked up our new sofa, see here.
Then we drove out to Jackson's Orchard and bought 1/2 bushel of Golden Delicious Apples. Normally we buy Red Delicious, but they had 2nds of the Golden Delicious so we saved $5.00 over the Reds. We ended up freezing 12 quarts of apples to fry this winter.


We also bought 1/2 peck of Bartlett Pears. We peeled and grated enough pears to make a batch of Pear Preserves. We got 4 pints of these. That left us about 6 pears to just eat.


I gave Toby a haircut and bath/shower which he had been needing for quite some time.

Of course Sunday was regular day of worship at our church home, Christ United Methodist.
We studied Chapter 7 of The Story. For those who haven't been able to read completely thru The Bible, this book takes you chronologically thru the Bible. This book is being studied in a lot of different denominations including Baptist and Presbyterian.

With the cooler weather, I had been thinking about Pumpkin Pie. My mother almost always made a couple this time of year. Since she's not here to do it and they were sounding awfully good I made one regular and 2 mini pumpkin pies. We ate the 2 minis that night and brought the other one to the cabin on Wednesday.


And since I make such a mess when I make pie crust, I decided to make and bake one to freeze so it'll be easy later on to make a butterscotch or chocolate meringe pie.


The first couple of days at the cabin we just enjoyed our view, read books, and played on our computers.

View from the cabin.

On Thursday, Handyman had to go to the Corp Office to purchase his launching pass for the year. I rode along with him and then we went to check out the new park by the dam. They have a great concrete walk around that you can fish from or just take a stroll on. There is a boat ramp to launch your boat, a nice playground for the kids and an amphitheater with a tiered seating area.




On Friday morning, Handyman took his boat out to do some fishing. No fish... Then after lunch I went out in the boat with him and I finally got a look at where the cabin is from the lake. You couldn't see the cabin, but I know it was up there somewhere!!


The weather was perfect out on the lake and there weren't many people out, but we saw several boats with kids who were probably on their fall breaks.

Getting ready to take the boat out for the day.

Tomorrow we head back home so we can be at church on Sunday and then it's back to work for me on Monday.

HAPPY FALL Y'ALL!!