Last of the Summer Wine

As this Summer closes, the weather has turned even here in sunny California...some warm evenings still prevail, but the local trees are turning all the glorious colours of the coming season and the winds of change are upon us! As Cricket always reminds us - Summer is not over until my birthday!

Drippy castle

sculpture by Little Gandalf

Cricket checking the tidemessing around on the trampoline

woolly Indian summer picture sneaking in........

Harvest Moon is early this year (15th) and we will hopefully have a clear sky to view it, this season we'll look forward to trips to the Griffith Observatory with the children and roast beast!

Sharing a week...

Well, this week has been a blur of activity, yep I know - what's new? The boys very proudly dismantled the Admirals fine work to create original Legos so they can post them at Lego.com!

So it seemed only right to have the online debut here..

Little Gandalf's creation "The Forest Fighter" ...

....and Donovan Boy's build - "The Ultimate Mining Vehicle"

We also saw an excited Zoe the Wonderdog yesterday, when we shared Shabbos with Challah and her family and we made bread from scratch. Most of this batch below was scarfed with sea salt and Manischewitz last night, but my batch is home, dough is risen, frozen and waiting for next week....

Jamie found this beautiful leaf that reminds us that Autumn is coming soon and so for felting purposes I will begin the transformation on our nature table too...
Oh and my Tuscan melons are just hanging around!!

We said goodbye to some friends we met in la Leche Lague many years ago and have since played every week at our park playgroup for 8 years! They are leaving the States to return to Canada and so we wish them a fond farewell.