It's crispy

Finally...we have some crispness in the air. There are still the occasional days where we see the 80+ degree mark, but in general...it's finally cooling off. We spent this lovely cool morning cleaning up the yard and flowerbeds to prepare the yard for Christmas. You see, it's only November 20th, but our Christmas lights are going up today. We are at the time mercy of the Christmas light guy and today is good for him so it's good for us too. I had the kids raking leaves and A hoped she would have enough to jump into when she was finished. Sadly, that would not happen for her. We did not have many leaves. They finally gave up and played around the yard while mom and dad finished the cleaning. Here are a few pictures from today.

Brad got himself a new toy. If you are reading this then you will know before anyone else. I'm not putting anything about it on FB and I'm fairly certain that he didn't mention it to anyone. Anyhow, he got rid of our gas guzzling Tahoe and downsized to a new Volvo. It is really lovely. I don't care one little lick about cars so you won't get much more from me. It's black and it's really lovely. I actually drove it and enjoyed the ride.