A Day in my Life - October

 I'm finally getting around to sharing my first day of the month with you.  It was a Saturday, so it's a little different than my usual workday posts. Here's how the day went.

I got up in the morning to a quiet house.  I thought the living room looked peaceful in the early morning light.

Bob had gone outside for a walk, I headed downstairs to walk on the treadmill.
After my walk I had my customary boiled eggs for breakfast, checked my e-mails and started some laundry.
Then I headed out to do a few errands.  I had to stop at the bank, stop at the drugstore and I wanted to stop at one more place - a pumpkin stand.

Bob's stepbrothers and kids have a pumpkin stand.  I wanted to get some gourds and pumpkins for our porch.  

It was a beautiful day and I enjoyed my drive back home. We were just starting to see a little color popping out on the trees.

When I got home, I found Bob hard at work in the garage.  He's been hanging drywall, putting up trim and on this day was doing some painting.

I brought all my pumpkins and gourds to the porch and arranged them.  They look nice with the mum I already purchased. 

Bob and I had some leftover pizza for lunch and then each got back to our work.

I got a hot dish ready for the crockpot as we had a church potluck the next day.  I finished the laundry and got the kitchen cleaned up.

We wanted to take advantage of the nice weather and go for a drive. I usually go to check on my Dad on Saturdays, so we decided to stop there first. They live about 25 minutes from us and we got there about 3:30.

Dad and Ann were also enjoying the weather.  They like to sit outside in the garage.  They don't have to deal with the sun, but can still enjoy the fresh air.  We had a nice visit with them, then drove to Grand Haven for supper.

We had supper at a restaurant called Snug Harbor which is on the channel from Lake Michigan.  It was nice looking over the water.

The food was delicious!  I had a Chicken Fiesta bowl and enjoyed it.

After supper we walked down the channel a bit and enjoyed the water.

Then we walked back to our car. We had parked on a street a little way from the restaurant.  We got to our car and I went to get in on the passenger side, and realized there was a woman sitting in it.  At the same time, Bob was opening the drivers door!  That woman probably wondered what we were up to, but she laughed at us.  It was a car just like ours, and our car was 2 cars further up the hill.  We still laugh about it when we are looking for our car in a parking lot.

We stopped on the way home to get Bob a new pair of jeans, then enjoyed another pretty drive home.

I'm afraid our porch time is nearly done for this year, but on this evening it was nice to sit for a bit. This is the view to the side from our porch.  There's a little maple tree putting on a show!

I had some cards to get ready before church the next morning, so I did that, and then we relaxed the rest of the evening.
What a lovely start to the month!