Is Fall in the air?

Here are a couple of pictures from this last week.

I LOVE LOVE fall! It is my favorite time of year. It is peach time, time to start holiday decorating, the evenings are starting to cool down here, we had a couple of days this week below 100 degrees. I spent the week eating and canning fresh peaches, mostly just eating but I did some canning. I only had two broken jars...one I noticed was chipped when I pulled it out of the wash water, and the other broke while processing. This year I made note to not process any cans upside down (2 years ago, I processed my last batch upside down...not sure why I would ever put the jars in upside down.) The kids worked on a Halloween Craft this week. Making sucker ghosts while I washed sticky peach jars. Happy Fall!

Moving up in the world

We are finally moving up in the world. These are the things that have either opened or are coming soon:

Chipolte

Wal-Mart

Wendy's

Cracker Barrel

Wells Fargo

Pay Less Shoes

Pet Smart

Office Max

Peter Piper Pizza

Lowes

We/I no longer have to drive 20 miles to get the basic stores like wal-mart. It is pretty fun to have these new places close by.

Now if only we could cool the temps off here, it would be even better!

Our labor day weekend we are working on finishing up the crown molding in the family room/ kitchen. I will post a picture of what the after looks like. It seems like so long ago Bill's parents were here helping us paint it yellow. I still love the yellow though. And good news for them, we don't really have a whole lot of walls left to paint, so they can come and not have to work! :-) Happy Labor Day!