Raking leaves

Julie came home last week to rake leaves...or did she come home to eat turkey and pumpkin pie with family?

Thankful

Thanksgiving cactus

Feast

Powdered

Yellow

Dark

One of the biggest adjustments for me with my new job is that I'm not home during the daylight. It's dark in the morning before I leave for work...

and it's dark when I get home at the end of the day.

Pies

 Thursday evening, Mom came over and helped me make apple pies, which I took to the Thanksgiving dinner for international students at SVSU the next day. 

First snow

Garden cleaning

Paint samples

(Lauren Mae's walls)

Cleaning

The church building smelled like pine cleaner on Sunday since many volunteers tackled the building's annual cleaning the day before.

Anniversary flowers

A couple of the plants that I hacked blooms from in April to decorate Betsy's wedding reception have bloomed again.

Lines

Doghouse

Somehow Charlie managed to topple his doghouse. The next morning I found him curled up on his pile of straw seemingly unaware that there was no roof over his head.

Bird berries

Sipping chocolate

Computer swap

The secretary and I swapped computers this week--my Dell for her Mac. We were both thrilled with the trade. 

Accreditation

Our program was recently granted accreditation. We held a reception yesterday evening to mark the accomplishment.

Playing Bananagrams--leave it to a bunch of English people to entertain themselves with word games

Fall decor

Apples

Official

Light

Counting money

Brown

Dinner

My folks and siblings who live at home came over for dinner on Monday night. Since I've completed my master's courses I've enjoyed having time for activities besides reading journal articles and writing discussion board posts.

Imagination

This is where I pretend to be an artist.

Books

Red and green

Asleep