I decided to try something new this month and try to take a photo every single day. I marked the new moon, full moon and Samhain on my collage just to make it feel more like a calender. These aren’t all great shots (I had quite an icky flu for part of the October which partly accounts for the blurry or the random shelves around our home) but I accomplished my goal! It kind of makes me want to try and do it every month for a year, just to see if I can. 365 photos? We’ll see… Make sure to check out the larger version of this month’s collage over on my flickr page (just click the image to get there.) This little version really doesn’t show much detail at all.

Anyhow, October, October… What happened this month?

• We harvested the last tomatoes and radishes from our garden.
• I received another few lovely vintage Countryside magazines from my grandma.
• It was sunny, rainy, foggy, windy… Snowy! We had our first snow of the season.
• Evening walks with my two guys, enjoying the Halloween decor in our neighborhood.
• Taking time to indulge my developing knitting addiction.
• Being knocked flat by the flu for a week but luckily no one else caught it.
• Witnesses Damian’s first strings of words… What’s this? Woke up! Thank you.
• Michael and I wonderful date night at Clinkerdaggers.
• Canning pluots, drying apples, storing squash. Preparing the pantry for Winter.
• Beautiful gift packages from my family. Halloween themed cookie cutters!
• Making chocolate sugar cookies with Damian with said cookie cutters.
• Sweeping the leaves of our porch and deck – very therapeutic.
• Carving our Jack-O-Lantern. Also very therapeutic! Stab stab stab!
• Decorating for Halloween, welcoming trick-or-treaters, embracing Samhain’s ghosts.
• And last but not least a continuing healthy pregnancy, week 35!

I hope your month was as lovely as mine and your family is as blessed. Now for November and I have a feeling it is going to be both exciting and incredibly hectic!