Happy Sunday.
I love Fall… I love October. In fact, October is my favorite month.
It’s usually not overly hot or cold… It’s a great time of year to walk the dogs, hike the local trails, bike, make soup, bake, and plan loads of fun events to dress up to. It’s also the time I usually get into a home-update mood… painting, cleaning out a closet…etc…

So here is what is current –

We have a new deck on the front of the house – YAY! Long overdue, and it looks MARVELOUS!

Admittedly… I can’t stop playing with it…. I bought a bench and added a few things I had in the garage… 😀

We are fostering a puppy. Yup. A. Puppy.

I signed up to be a foster almost a year ago, and finally one came along that felt like a fit for our lifestyle and home, and our two rescues already in da house.

His name, he came with, is Twig; he’s a mix and has these crazy blue eyes. He is about 12 weeks old.

For those not familiar with the terms, here is what this means….

Rescue Foster: Taking a dog into your home and caring for them until they find their forever home (someone adopts them).

Here is another term to know:

Foster Fail: This is when you say you are going to foster a dog to give them a safe home until they find their forever home AND you or someone in your home (*cough cough Al*) decides that we should keep the dog because he really likes him.
Exhibit A:

To all my friends who said I would fail…. It wasn’t me. 😛

And for other things this past week –

I received a cool book gift (left for me on that lovely bench on the new deck) from the Battle Of The Books team, thanking me for assisting with food setup for the kids. Awe….

I dabbled in making my first Grapefruit Smoothie ( A whole grapefruit, a 1/2 cup of plain Greek yogurt, 4 chunks of frozen pineapple, 1 TBLS coconut oil, and a knob of Ginger. It was good… and now that I am thinking about it I want another one.

I have had a pinched nerve in my right shoulder blade since last Monday…. I tried the Red Light Therapy at our local Caribbean Beach Tanning and Wellness, and that was a cool experience, and I felt it made a difference. I will do that again!

Some of our Breakfast Club peeps volunteered for A Kindness Event, and over 1200 people attended. So much fun!

And… a group of us made it to the annual purse auctions for Children’s Miracle Network. always a fun time… no winners to report from our group but lots of laughs 🙂

This weekend I am focusing on yard care – it’s time to clean up the deck, garden, and get everything put away as next week is the annual Murder Mystery Retreat in Deerriver and I will be gone Friday through Sunday afternoon.
Kylie, Al, and I had a little Halloween shopping on Saturday and found a little something fun to add to the deck. Hang out time and campfire in the backyard
My day today continues with cleaning, finishing the book club book for our review this coming Tuesday, and a little ME time to reset before I hit the ground running tomorrow.
Bookish, things will be in my Monday What Are You Reading Post 🙂
Enjoy Today!
~Sheila