Spontaneous field trip and holiday

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers" -  Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

After several days of rain, it was a gorgeous October day and we had nothing much planned. It seemed like a good time to check out a local living history farm we had never visited. We had a lovely couple of hours at Kline Creek Farm.





Cotswold sheep

That's K. taking pictures of the cows. He loves cows. He took several pictures of them.




By K.

By K.



And as a treat everyone got a bottle of old fashioned soda and a stick of candy. I'll tell you more about that garbage bag sitting by the picnic table tomorrow.

There was a beautiful sunset as I driving people home from youth group.

Photo by G. (I was driving.)

And finally we ended the day by celebrating P. G. Wodehouse's birthday which we discovered was today. It seemed only appropriate to eat dinner while introducing the younger half of the family to the Hugh Laurie and Steven Fry version of Jeeves and Wooster. We only had time to see the first two episodes, but they were greatly appreciated. If you have never seen them, do yourself a favor and watch them. They are terribly amusing and very well done. 

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