Autumn warmth is lingering here in Wisconsin in a long string unexpected sunny days. Although I've pulled out the sweatshirts and jeans...I am only wearing them now and then. I feel almost guilty when I know there are so many places that are having fires, floods, volcanoes, and hurricanes. And yet, idyllic day follows day after day. What an amazing gift. I'll try to remember this in January!
Yesterday's drive from Madison to Monroe through the farmland was idyllic...barn after barn with those "barn quilt" paintings on them and the corn just that brassy yellow as it just about ready to be picked. Pumpkins and gourds out on the roadside stands and late summer asters and mums by the houses in towns. Not a lot of color in the trees yet..just a few tinges here and there.
The Art Show on the square in Madison this weekend got FANTASTIC weather. I hope we can go next year. I hated to miss it.
The model train show was fun...we hadn't been to one in a long time and Greg was so happy! I worried that not very many people were masked...they left all the doors open and Greg and I WERE masked the whole time. Life is still so scary around the pandemic. I have bad dreams now and then.
Our friend Angie (up north) has tested positive (luckily we haven't been with her in months) but she apparently exposed a LOT of people during the last week. She is double vaccinated and that is even a bigger worry.
So lots of folks are now on a "watch" and keeping quarantined. She found out she was positive WHILE traveling from WI to NC. So they are going to drive straight through from this point on and try not to endanger anyone. Her husband tested negative. So he'll do the driving and pick up food.
Folks here at our campus location will get flu shots and boosters this coming week while we are gone. THAT is a disappointment to miss it! But they have a repeat October date. So we will have to wait for that.
I am packing as we leave for the cabin in a few hours...and I sent out the October Chat this morning as I have better internet here. I am taking my Inktober Challenge (for October) with me. See below.
You can see I've penciled in 31 small areas for the challenge tangles this year (9 x 12) sheet of Fabriano hot press WC paper. So it is just a small sample of each one. The hard part is finding the tangles...many of them are not familiar to me! BUT you get to learn something new in the process!!!
Greg and I have signed up for a 12 week class here at Oakwood called "Active Care" and it's all about healthy living, exercise, nutrition, prevention, etc etc. I decorated the cover of my booklet (of course).
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