Second Summer

Yeah, that seems to be the season we are now in my neck of the woods. Weather is expected to be in the 90s and 100s for the next week! And during our county fair. Though I have not been to the fair in years, I can't imagine it happening in 100-degree heat. And the Renaissance Faire is also happening (started last month). I've only been to that one once, but would not want to go in 100-degree heat. Staying home or going to the store is going to be hard enough. Also, we're having a pumpkin patch field trip next Wednesday.

I was unable to find this cartoon with
2nd summer highlighted

And I'm still behind on getting my pumpkin buckets ready to display on the front lawn. Need to figure out how to drill holes in the bottoms. Melting holes with hot glue and using exactos to make holes barely worked, so I'm hoping drilling them will work better. And I'm still deciding on a costume.

Yes, I feel this way, but unexpected circumstances have
 forced me to be a little late. I'm going to get the stuff
up by next week.

And I don't even want to get started on the Christmas stuff turning up in stores. I noticed a lot of that at Dollar General yesterday, along with discounted summer stuff. 

October Eve

 

At least that's what I wanted to do, but a cold has set me back a few days. And trying to find a way to make holes in the pumpkin buckets. Along the ones I got more than a month ago, I have since gotten two more at Goodwill, including a dark blue one (not pictured). I saw and wanted to get a white pumpkin there, but there was no tag so they wouldn't sell it. So I settled for getting another orange one. And I ordered the those pictured below from Amazon. They turned out to be smaller than the other ones, but I didn't mind that. I just wanted the different colors. Since I have 10 light stakes, I wanted to get that many buckets.

I experimented with cutting holes in the buckets with an exacto, but was less than satisfied. I got two done that way, but want to find another way to get the holes done. More on this later.

At first it seemed hard to find the round buckets. It seems those with wide rims are becoming more popular (below):

I am hoping to get it started tomorrow since it is the first.

Book Discussion: More Reading Progress

When I made this post in June, I was waiting to complete both Alphabet Soup challenges. Both have since been completed, along with two more, including one I finished just yesterday.

Here is what I have completed since then:

Blydyn 7/25

Alphabet Soup  7/30

Reading With Wrigs 7/30

Alphabet Soup Authors 8/8

Picture Prompt Bingo 9/26

Yes, two finished on the same day. Thank goodness for crossovers. A title beginning with U was the last one I needed for Alphabet Soup, and the book I found for this also fit "Set in a Nordic country" in the Wrigs challenge. Since the Picture Prompt Bingo allows readers to interpret images as they wish, I close to include this book, a locked-room mystery, for the old key picture. 

In June, I had not yet reached 100 books, but now I am up to 133 as of today.

Fall Trivia Video

This is the trivia topic for my class today. I based my questions off this video.

13 Fall Cartoons

Colleen at The Thursday 13 holds a weekly blogging prompt where bloggers make a list of 13 things on Thursdays. The topic is for you to choose. I am once again using the header graphic I made for these posts.

Fall has begun in the Northern Hemisphere. Here are some cartoons for the season, both old and new favorites.

 

Pumpkin Spice on the Way

Today on Paula's blog, I saw this post. Yes, time for pumpkin spice as well. I don't indulge in that one a lot, though. One year, I came across  the following pumpkin spice treats. I somehow got  tempted to try each one:

That was the only time I remember eating these. Maybe they never turned in the years that followed, but if but they did, I either didn't see them or wasn't tempted by them again. 

I've always been more into candy corn. Haven't gotten any this year yet, but I expect to have at least one bag this year.

25 Years Later

 

25 years. Seems hard to imagine. I'll always remember what I was doing on the fateful morning, and I'm sure others will too.