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I'm lost! We started out on an adventure, on this cloudy, fall-like day....we were going to the apple place! The place where we pick those apples out of those big wooden crates, and put them in paper bags. Big bags of apples for six dollars a bag.

Well, we went to the wrong town. "We" as in, "ME", as I was the driver. Sonja K. tried to tell me I was going the wrong way, but did I listen?

Sonja, Me, Suze, then Camille, Char, Jon in the front...Evelyn took this one.

Evelyn in this one....

It was a lovely place, the place we discovered by accident. We had taken the wrong road. Turn around and go back? Ha! I am a firm believer in Keep Going, Eventually The Right Road Will Show Up. So we drove and drove and drove, until we saw a sign that said, "Dead End". We pretended to be scared, I declared that at least we weren't running out of gas, to which Evelyn retorted, "Do not jinx us!". The road got smaller, more narrow. Hmm, where in the heck were we? Yah, we had smartphones, but we didn't check Mapquest, this was more fun. Char was getting nervous, she said, "If the road ends on a cliff, please don't drive off the end of it!". I told her the road would NOT end in a cliff. Well. It did. A cliff overlooking the beautiful Lake Ontario. We were pretty far away from the apples, but it was very nice there.

We did turn around, we found our way back, and we got apples. We also got peaches. The place we go has a 24/7 barn sale. Antiques, odds and ends. Camille had a dollar in her hand, and asked me like one hundred times if she could buy something if she found something for a dollar. I told her that it wasn't likely, but okay. I do think the lady behind the counter heard her, because when Camille found a plastic bag with a Barbie in it, plus a few brand new outfits and lots of Barbie shoes, and I asked the lady how much it was, she said it was a dollar. Seriously? Oh happy day. Char took it really well that Camille got something and she didn't. I tell them that life isn't fair, sometimes one of them gets something and the other doesn't, to share, and to be happy for each other. If it were the other way around, Camille would have been a different story. Anyway.

Evelyn and Suzanne found some cool candle holders and some other old stuff, and then we headed home, eating fresh peaches.

Home....yes, we baked pies. Three apple, one pumpkin. I told the girls it must be, "Pee-pee" day. Pies, pizza, pumpkin, aPPles...Margaret and Jonathan made three pizzas while Evelyn and I cut up all the apples and Mirielle rolled out the pie crust. Joseph requested the apple pies to begin with, so we guilted him into helping peel some apples.

Emily and Aaron drove to work together today, so they came in and had some dinner and pie after work.

The house is a mess, thanks to the little girls who have been playing house all over the living room. The 12-pack of paper towels made a nice wall for their house, but now it has opened up and there are paper towel rolls all over the floor at my feet. They also used the huge package of toilet paper, but that is still sealed. They used a toy bin and a laundry basket, which they turned upside down and put couch pillows on, plus they got out toy dishes and blankets and books. Books aren't just for reading, they make great walls for houses.

Someone covered up with a quilt, now it is in a heap in a chair. A few sweatshirts, a stack op papers, a princess cup, a magazine...oh, how cozy it is in here.

I have done enough today, it will be here when I wake up.