The screened-in porch was finished! We were really hoping to have it finished up in September but we experienced some delays when we discovered (to our dismay) that the washing machine in the garage was pumping grey water into the yard right were we needed to put a concrete slab. Once that was taken care of it rained for nearly a week so it took a long time to get the slab down. Once that was done, everything else moved along pretty quickly. We're really happy with the final result. We've eaten nearly every dinner outside since it was completed.
We spent a lot of time working in the garden. While I was tilling I found a neat little skink that I showed to the girls. I had never seen one so big before.
We ate the last of the bell peppers, tore up all of the scraggly tomato plants, and planted about 250 strawberry plants.
I put up hoops over the greens so we can cover it with plastic once we hit a frost. We've only had one frost so far this year.
We went to a friend's birthday party at Shelby Bottoms. C and I got there an hour early so we got some hiking in.
We also hit up the Farmer's Market for pumpkins and C got to paint one.
A and I also got to go out on 1 (one) date together. It was a breakfast/brunch, which we found to be quite nice because we weren't too exhausted to talk.
We also went hiking one weekend at Edwin Warner park. The leaves are all turning so it was a beautiful autumn day to visit!
We've been fortunate to enjoy a very mild fall with a lot of outdoor time.