What More Can You Ask For?

They heard a little helicopter and ran
My kids preferred to be above the horses...
This horse is the boss and is awfully forward, I try to avoid him.

So we've got tennis and racquetball, parks with equipment to play on and gazebos to lunch in, a fancy and expensive red clay baseball field, a pool with a slide, a couple weight rooms, nearly 20 cardio machines, an indoor track, a library with any book (they don't mind borrowing from other libraries!) and more DVDs than even a dedicated DVDs addict can watch in 10.5 years...oh yeah the best Chinese food delivered right to your office :) and everyone knows about the buffet at the Grand... I'm so glad there are
We have "wild" horses that are very sweet, it's been awhile since I drove out the road a bit and bonded with them..

Last Bonfire of the Season

Random wacky hair color was the "thing" in October. Thankfully went away after 6 weeks or so...

One of the kids brought an old Christmas tree the river...but bonus for us, a very cool stand was still attached to it and we had a very stable tree this year --albeit a freaking ugly tree! Come on Foreign Language Club! Sell us a better tree next year!

We brought out an old pogo stick, some people just have better balance than others...

October 11 was the last time we had a bonfire....we do it often MAY-OCT right in our yard!
I love my yard. it's more of a driveway really, it's HUGE and flat with room for 10 vehicles or more --we have 4 vehicles plus a big skiff and still have room for a fire! It's on the one paved road in town, no precarious driveway to navigate like a lot of folks here have to contend with, no neighbors crowding like so many people have to deal with and a river in the back yard! Nothing green to fuss with either LOL. There are mountains on 3 sides, we get less light than most people, we don't see sunrises or sunsets, but seem to get a lot less wind too. And after 8 years in an apt on the second floor (Poor Jim and Joe had to hear our extreme loudness all that time!! They were VERY patient!)