Boo!!! I just know that scared you on this dreary Halloween morning. I would appear that it has sprinkled on and off throughout the ight. This morning it sprinkles for maybe five minutes and then quits; then it starts all over again. The weatherman said last night that we may get less than one tenth of an inch today but it will be just enough to be miserable for the kids out trick or treating and then they will go back to school Monday with colds.

One lone squirrel sits out there on a feeder; he not eating, just sitting there. I've had a few small birds here this morning but at the moment the squirrel has the whole place to itself. It's 48 degrees out this morning so the temperature isn't too bad and the air is still. I don't see a leaf moving anywhere which is a bit strange.

Ms. Kate and I had an industrious and adventurous day yesterday. We did our morning chores around the house; I got the back yard cleaned up and she worked on the Chistmas cards she's making. Then we went to Sam's and Walmart. That would normally make for enough adventure for a Friday but --- she and I used to just pick a place and go try and find it, or maybe we would see a road and wonder where it would lead to and go find out. Well, we are getting ready to do a vacation locally during Thanksgiving week with Julie and Jim and the pupperonis. I found a place on line that is a log home that sits right on the Ohio River in a little blink in the road called Magnet, Indiana. The broshure said it was only about an hour from home. We decided to scout it out and see where it was and what it looked like. We didn't really have a good map or directions to the place so we just "headed east". We knew it was off of Hwy 66 and was on the Ohio River. Well, --- we took the wrong way to get there for sure. We got to Hwy 66 just fine but did so way too early. That Hwy 66 has to be the most narrow, currvy and twisting highway we've been on in a long time. Our average speed had to be about 35 mph. Finally, we pulled out an Indiana map and saw that we were going the right direction at least. Eventually we found the place and it looks like it will do us fine; but we now know the easy way to get there. What should have been no more than an hour and a half drive took us almost twice that. The good news of course is that we had an adventure; we saw lots of deer and wild turkeys, we had dinner at a really nice resturant that we've eaten at before, and we did it together. So, in reality --- it was a successful day. In fact, putting it all in perspective; --- yesterday pretty much summed up our almost fifty years of marriage: we had an idea of where we wanted to go, we weren't sure how to get there, we've taken a few wrong roads along the way,  but the the scenery has been great and the adventure has been fun, and we've gotten to our destination. What else would one need?

With that --- Have a blessed day!