Seal up all your cuts with a line of hot glue so you don’t get any fraying.

It’s cheery and big and you can see it from the road.. You want a closer view of our corn thresher don’t you?.He’s actually updating the decorations by adding more pumpkins and some leaf piles since I took these, but alas, I haven’t been out there with my camera again yet..

I keep thinking that when our house is all big and fancy and renovated in a few years, these photos will make for good “first year” memories..The 13 giant maples around the property are just starting to change color and drop their leaves.What are we going to do with all those leaves??!!?.

We have some red too..Looking back towards the house.

You can see the soy fields here are starting to change.

Many of the other fields around here are already completely brown and are being harvested.. A blue sky and the barn peeking out over the browning corn fields.So I guess that’s where my sense of humor is right now!

Stuck in the third grade.. Just don’t tattle on me to the teacher for saying the word “butt”!Let me just tell you, there are so many good reasons for me not to decorate my dining room at all this Fall.. -The floors look really bad next to my nice old rescued wood floors in the front hall.And that makes me a little crazy.. -The walls are still a weird turquoisy color that I just can’t really like no matter how hard I try, but there’s no point in painting until we re-drywall the whole room.

And that may not happen for… I don’t know… another five years?And that makes me a little crazy.. -I broke the office-style tile ceiling in the summer when I was trying to hang a big lantern from it so it droops, but it doesn’t really matter because the whole ceiling needs to come out, be raised up to original height and be re-done.