Fall....

The leaves are almost totally gone now.  I feel like we are about to be looking at fall through the rear view mirror.
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Lorelei went home yesterday....even though she is not a loud child, the house just seems so totally empty when she leaves.  

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I am in a decluttering mood again.....we have been getting stuff ready to go to the auction.  Some of it is things we don't use....some is stuff that had been Roger's mom's or grandmother's....the girls didn't want it and I have no place for it so will let someone else enjoy it.

I am putting the baby crib...we had got it used to have when we babysat Lorelei when her mom worked.  Ended up, I think she spent maybe a total of 3 or 4 hours napping in it in all the time we babysat her, and she has spent a couple or three nights in it when she was spending the night.  It is a nice Simmons wooden crib.  We gave $35 for it used, so am wondering what we will get for it.  Since she didn't ever really use it much, it is not hard to part with.

Things really can surprise a person....I put in this old game joystick the last time we put stuff in the auction.  It really had not been used much, but it was probably at least 15 years old and it sold for either $20 or $25.  I had come so close to just pitching it a time or two but always held back.  Now I have a couple more things to put in....an old scanner that still works.  I just got a better one that scans both photos and documents AND slides.  I think there is an old  microphone here...again, it hasn't been used, but it is old.

It is always fun just to see what people want.....

From last year....

This is from a drive in Parke County...taken in 2011.  It looks about the same type of weather we are having today.

It rained during the night, and has definitely taken a cold turn.  I checked the temperature some time after noon, and it was 47ºF.  I wish it had stayed warm one more day.  I was afraid Lorelei would be bored, but she has just played around, watched some cartoons, went down in the basement with me and even let me quilt some while she messed around.

Kids can find entertainment anywhere.  She found a bunch of twist ties that had came out of my garbage bags.  I never use them on garbage bags, but usually lay them aside thinking they will come in handy for something.  Well, she played with them for at least half an hour...she would unroll them and say they were her mat.  And she would spread them out like she was going to sit on them.

Then she found a place to hide them...then she would go find them like it was the first time she had ever seen them.

She was worrying last night about Santa Claus and our lack of a fireplace.  So I took her and showed her the chimney down there...and showed her the old opening for when this house had a coal fired furnace.  I told her he just snaps his fingers and he is instantly little enough to fit through, then he just comes up the stairs like we do.  And that seemed to satisfy her.

Our Princess...

We went this morn and met the kids half way to pick up our Lorelei...oh, she is changing in ways I cannot explain.  In other ways she is still the same Lorelei.  She only wants to come straight here...does not want to stop along the way...does not want to go anywhere once she is here.  I guess I should cherish these days that she is satisfied to just be here. 

Jackson, her little cousin had gotten her the jewelry and sent it home with us.  It had to be opened first thing...and she put it on.  But then we had gotten her a couple dress up outfits at the flea market...she took the jewelry off while she put one of those on, then put the jewelry back on.
I hurried and snapped a photo or two while she was willing.

We have played on the front porch with bubbles, and squirt guns while visiting with other family...and now I suppose we are in for the night.  She is playing with Papaw now...and I had a minute so thought I would just do a quick post.