Fall Festivities

This Friday, Joy and I got together with some other couples from our Community Group at church for some enjoyment of all things fall. Positively, October is the best month of the year. Not only that, but October leads to November and Thanksgiving, which brings us into the Christmas season, which really gets me excited. I'm already itching to start playing Mariah Carey's Christmas CD, but for now, it's still October, and we had much to celebrate as the leaves' colors begin to fade and the crispness in the air leads to dew-laden mornings.

One of the couples in our Community Group lives out in the country in the basement of an elderly couple's home. They take care of the property in exchange for rent, and the property is vast and beautiful. And, there are animals! Chickens, goats (my favorite, of course), and even an emu! An egg the size of my head!

We first did some walking through the woods, visited the animals, and then went inside for dinner. Dinner consisted of hot dogs (we were going to roast them, but it'd been raining all day), and, some freshly prepared bear-meat stew. Believe it.

Dinner was filled with laughter and a certain giddiness, and then the knives came out for the pumpkin carving. And carve we did. Joy and I worked as a team, she at the drawing board and I at the blade. In the end, we were quite happy with our finished product.

We then ventured outside to spend a few evaporating hours around a campfire. We told jokes and stories and were thankful and blessed as the logs crackled and the flames jumped with October glee. A very nice evening indeed.