November is a full month for us - always with the anniversaries, birthdays and Thanksgiving and this year a wedding. For most of the month, the temperatures were above average.
On the 19th we quietly celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary - an achievement I was most grateful for.
This photo of us is from 2000. Just a few changes in twenty-five years.
Also, without fanfare, we celebrated Bud's 80th birthday and my 82nd.
I should amend that, we did receive lots of birthday and anniversary cards and phone calls.
My favorite is the picture which reads: To my dear Irish ePal "who loses herself between the pages and finds her soul in stories. Because sometimes, her heart belongs to worlds you cannot see knowing the greatest adventures begin when you turn a page."
Yesterday we went to Winterset for Thanksgiving at Preston and Shalea's. It was a smaller gathering this year with some of the kids working and because of the forecast for lots of snow.
First we stopped at grandson Devin's and had a nice visit with him, Jessica, Oakley and great-granddaughter Everly. She has really grown since we last saw her - now walking and talking and just being cute in general - those curls!
Somehow I managed not taking a single photo at Preston & Shalea's. Ayden and Greyson were playing a game of Go Fish. I joined in after being reminded how to play. Greyson won, Ayden came in second and I lost. (No surprise there.)
After turkey and all the trimmings (including shrimp), there was pie. M-m-m-m, pie. And there were still all those warnings about the snow coming and hazardous driving. In order to get out ahead of it we all left around 2p.m. We didn't have snow on the way home but when we got to Creston there was some snow on the streets but none coming down.
A small flock of geese landed on the pond around 4:30 p.m.
They did not stay long - either continuing on south or going back out to Green Valley Lake.
I was awakened at 3:30 a.m. by the sound of a pickup with a blade attached going back and forth clearing snow off the street. It was so bright out with all the snow.
This was the view out my window around 10 a.m. - snow still coming down. It was about 2-3 inches on the deck railing then. Looking out now I would guess about 6-7 inches and still snowing.
That is the reason for my "changing month" line in this blog's title - after a perfectly lovely November - a big change. I'm not crazy about the snow and cold but after a lifetime in Iowa, I'm accepting of it. If nothing else it is beautiful.
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