Intro to Fall

Fall is in the air. I couldn't be happier. We are getting outside as much as possible because we know cold weather is right around the corner. We had the pleasure of hosting Mom, Dad, and Mozie a couple of weeks ago. They came to help with post-birthday and post-prelim passing celebrations. We were blessed with a beautiful day on a Saturday, and a rainy day on a Sunday. That was fine with us, we we hiking on Saturday and came home for a late night camp fire. We spent our Sunday watching movies, staying out of the rain, and recovering from our Saturday hike and whatnot. Neit was so happy to have his only friend in the world, Mozie, come play with him. We had a lot of fun hosting. We sure do miss our families and love when they come visit.

Mom and Dad and Mozie by an old chimney along our hike

Trekking up the steep uphill. No problem

Mozie trying to make it over one of the two stiles along the hiking trail. No problem.

Mozie trying to clear the second stile on the trail. A little more of a problem this time.

Neit, taking a breather. Good hike!

This weekend we took advantage of some warmer-than-normal weather and hopped on the motorcycle. We took a self-guided motorcycle tour of the beginnings of the fall foilage in the area. It looks like this year we will get some pretty colors as opposed to last year, when the leaves turned from green straight to brown. Next, we took the motorcycle to a pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins this year. We had a pretty productive day today, putting up curtains, cleaning out the garage, and mowing. Good weekend! We are looking forward to another great Fall in Hokieville!

A little color showing from some trees here in Southwest VA, as observed from the back of the motorcycle (at a stop light, of course).

A little scenery from our motorcycle ride on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Ian at the pumpkin patch, trying to find that perfect mini-pumpkin.

Happy Fall! Here's the centerpiece I made from our pumpkin patch mini-pumpkins (and gourd) and some construction paper leaves.

Promises Promises

Good news everyone! I passed my prelims. That means I get to continue getting my PhD, as opposed to not passing my prelims and getting kicked out of grad school. Now that my prelims are over, I have a little bit more free time.

I promise, promise to get a new post up by the end of this weekend. We actually have had the opportunity to do a few fun things in the past couples weeks. One fun thing includes drive-thru animal feeding, and the other includes family visiting. I'll stay vague about it in this post, and elaborate soon. By the end of this weekend. I promise. It's good to be back :)