Autumn Greetings!

Yes! Yesterday marked the first day of Autumn here in the Northern Hemisphere and it promises to be a perfectly glorious season.

This pumpkin patch is not too far from us up the road and it appears as though there'll be plenty of jack-o-lantern material for the entire county! The Oquirrh Mountains aren't really showing a whole lot of color yet but I suspect that with the chilly nights ("frost on the pumpkin!") we've had for the last week, we'll be seeing changes very soon. What a lovely time of year; too bad that it is the harbinger of a cold, snowy winter season! haha! Fact is, the older we get, the more we dread the cold weather and the talk turns to "snow birding" to warmer climes!

The last week since my last post has been full of good times. The thought came to me that it was very appropriate indeed that the Sunday my dad was here, the 8th, and we had a little family get-together with him was Grandparents Day! It was fabulous to have all but four of the Allred family here to celebrate 'Ole Bob Carr. 

Our oldest granddaughter Chelsey with her Great-grampa Bob Carr

Chelsey came earlier in the evening and I was very pleased to get this picture of her with my dad. Not only is Chelsey our oldest granddaughter but she's also our first grandchild. She and our second granddaughter Brittany share their birthday with my mom Delta's, September 16 too which makes me very happy :) Momma, of course, would've been 90 years young this last Monday.

Friday, the 13th (ach!) we headed to Cedar City for the Enterprise and Cedar High School rodeos. The 13th was a lucky number for grandson Tee . . . he won the steerwrestling with a speedy 4.45 second run. He received the championship buckle, his first! Saturday morning the arena and surrounding area was a pool of mud since it rained all night long; however, at least the boys participating in the steerwrestling had a ball wallowing in it! All but maybe three of the runs caught and came up covered hat to boots! Both our grandsons had good times (Ty was 2nd) and a muddy bath. Here's a picture of Ty's calf-roping run that shows how deep the mud was:

Shooter, the horse is putting the brakes on here even though Ty's loop didn't make it, and the
mud is flying! Ty is plastered with alot of the arena from his bull doggin' run.

On Wednesday, the 18th, I looked out the kitchen window and saw this:

We're thinking that the local dove population has decided that this archway was put up just for them! Not only were they perched on the arch but there was more of them on the gate, fence, and ground. What a sight! That evening after Clare hazed a few steers for our grandson's practice, we headed down to the Tooele High School football field to watch granddaughter McKenna's junior class kick some senior class butt in the Powder Puff football game. This was just one of the activities held for Homecoming week and although the juniors lost by two points, they put in a good showing.

It was chilly but what a beautiful sunset!

The arrow here is of course pointing to the star, our McKenna Clare! What a stud!

Friday was the homecoming and pre-game activities included a parade from 2nd East and 2nd South, north on Main to West Vine Street and the high school. And guess who got to carry the royalty?! Me and my 1965 Pony :) Way fun! Drove them onto the football field too! 

Notice the royal waves?! Gotta' love this car!

The grandboys and their dads and grampa had left Friday morning for Salina and the Sevier High School rodeo. They didn't have any success Friday but Saturday Ty came away with the steerwrestling championship buckle! (Check out my Facebook page for a post of this shiny addition.)

So, with cooler weather I am planning on getting out in the yard, clearing out spent blooms, and putting in spring-flowering perennials. The sunflowers outside the kitchen window that earlier provided feasts for wild canaries, are now hosting these little feathered friends:

With that "note" I will move on to the day and week!

Ta-ta!