More Leaves...

Well that's the last of the leaves! Well most of them anyway. The last lot in the back garden were raked up, some burnt and some dumped in the woods. All we need now is a huge wind to blow them all back out again!! There are still quite a few in the front garden, but they aren't too bad and it's quite wet out there, so we'll see how inclined we feel next weekend to finish them off.
We did have a lot of wind and rain last night and we lost power for a few hours, but as we were in bed savouring the extra hour, we were oblivious and woke to a flashing alarm clock.
The past week was more or less the same as every week. Cubs went on a hike at Laurie Park on Wednesday, Matthew & Emma were off school on Friday and then it was Apple Day on Saturday, which is basically gifting apples to the community to thank them for the support they have given 2nd Wellington over the past year. It seems a bit of a cheek to carry around a donation can at the same time, but it's amazing how generous people are. Incidentally we raised $1000 at the bottle drive last week.
Matthew was at a friends house for a sleepover on Friday night and Emma had her friend Emily to stay over, so we lost one child but gained one!
Matthew was invited to a birthday party on Saturday evening at Pirates Cove in Dartmouth. Actually Emma was invited too but she didn't want to go for some reason. Saved us a present I suppose! Anyway, Pirates Cove is within the Dartmouth Sportsplex and luckily for us (or unluckily actually) the annual Christmas Craft Fair was on in the arena. I was really impressed. It was a great fair with loads of lovely things to buy. We were quite restrained and bought a bottle of Oishi sauce (for stir frying - fat free!) and a Christmas Welcome sign. I took a photo in case you wondering....All the rage here, and very reasonably priced.
Today as I said we finished the leaves in the back, Matthew & Emma went Ice skating and we had Roast Pork for dinner! I also carved a couple of pumpkins for the Cub Halloween Party tomorrow (apparently I'm in charge of pumpkin putting) and made pumpkin soup. There seems to be a bit of an obsession with Pumpkin. You can even get Pumpkin Spiced Latte coffee! Sobeys Pumpkin and Walnut scones are pretty delicious though...
And that just about wraps up another week. Halloween this coming week....