Friday

It's our second group Play of the week.

I had scheduled a meeting at a far-away park, and wasn't sure anyone would be interested, or show up.  (I co-administer our local unschooling group, so put together lots of events.)
The plan was to collect owl pellets, dissect them, and see if we could find the resident Great Horned Owls.

On the way out, the babes and I were very happy to see a few snowflakes falling!

We started talking about snow, and the holidays, and how many people don't want to talk about Christmas until after Thanksgiving,

and I started getting sentimental over thoughts of eggnog and glasses of wine with the family, and told them it was all (for the next two months) one big long holiday of family lovely time for me.

I love the holidays.

Soon enough we were at the park, and scouting for pellets.

Found some!

Lots and lots of them.

And there are the owls....

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It was a lovely afternoon, spent with friends.
It's a wonderful life.

Halloween

This was all Halloween, and pretty much no Samhain, but this Mama fully intends to remedy that, some time in the next little while.

In the meantime....

No shiny mummies here.... gotta be authentic.

 A murder of crows!  For Halloween!

All of a sudden there was a wild cacophony, and about 60 crows circling and cawing!
"Happy Halloween!!"  we yelled to them, "Caw!  Caw!!"

Okay... time to go!  (After the store, and downtown to pick up a couple of yum platters and a thousand other must-do's...)
Off we went to play with friends..

and to my very favorite part of Halloween.... trick or treating.
(Thank goodness they said I could come with them....)

 

...and finally back to our friends' house.

So, so good.
It's an outrageously awesome life we've got.  ♥

Friday's Party

It's a Halloween party!

just a few of the gang

With our unschoolers.

"Has anyone seen Maddie?  I haven't seen her since we got here a half hour ago!"

Stuck.

"There you are!!  I've been looking and looking for you!"
"I've been calling and calling for you!!" she says.

 

 

It's a goodly sort of life.

Unschoolers Play

 An autumn celebration:

and then out to the corn field.

Gotta love October!