The October Country

[pyat]

Today..

Happier and more content than I've been in a couple of months. It's cold and rainy out, and warm and cozy inside, and the house is quiet. It's been a very productive and interesting 72 hours. Autumn is my favorite season. October is my favorite month.

My first day off work was Thursday. I was very productive, taking care of literally dozens of minor home repairs and chores we'd been putting off, in some cases for years. And cleaning! Thursday night ruiskafleck and wggthegnoll were over to make characters for a new Warhammer FRP game I'm running one weeknight a week for them and velvetpage.

Yesterday was my first solo day as a housedad, responsible for making lunches and getting the girls to and from places. kores_rabbit came over early in the day and stayed the evening for fondue and movies. velvetpage can melt my cheese any day. :)

kores_rabbit also joined us today for our jaunt to a Haunted Farm, one of best ways to spend a blustery fall day. We left just as storm rolled in, with powerful winds bending the cornstalks and heavy rain starting to fall.


<sub>Load...


Aim...


Fire!</sub>

velvetpage fired a Pumpkin Cannon.



I love the Fon that She Due.


The posh, posh travelling life...


No, Winnie the Pooh isn't hanging by his neck. This was one of the exciting artistic tableaux vivants en route, narrated by scratchy recordings from Disney movies.


Claire really liked them.


Elizabeth liked travelling in a pumpkin.


The Haunted Hayride was less of a hit. Elizabeth did NOT like it at all, and Claire was scared.


kores_rabbit on her way to the People's Glorious Farm Collective.


Guys like this kept popping out, and there were all kinds of gory installations, a little scene of a 12 year old girl being chased by a man with the chainsaw.


This was more their speed.


Good day!


velvetpage and I exploring "Little Land" as the wind grows fierce.


I never seem to have a neutral expression in photos.


kores_rabbit!


And again!

We all scurried down the Mountain as the rain poured down and lightning flashed, and finished the afternoon with supper at Swiss Chalet.

Tomorrow is the first session of my Star Wars game. Yay!

Comments

[n-scale.livejournal.com]

Although I suspect that you're referring to a Star Wars RPG, let it be known that I have the epic "Assault on Hoth" (epic in the sense that it takes about 10 hours to play), as well as the original Star Wars: Escape From Death Star board game, which can be played in about 30 minutes!

[summerfields.livejournal.com]

Love the pic of Erin and Claire!
(Piet, I never have neutral faces, either...I learned from you?)

[sassy-fae.livejournal.com]

Kaboom!!
There's no better ammo for a cannon than a family of vegetables labelled "Squash." It's like an instruction!

Ever seen the pumpkin catapults?