Saturday, October 14, 2023

Saturday in October!!

 The sun is back out today. Yesterday we had a lot of rain 2 to 3"!! 

It's only in the 50's, but we have to take what we can get this time of year! 

Steve and I both were off Friday. We went to the gym then were off to get some pastries in Excelsior at the Red Hen. Sooo good! 




We also did a lot of shopping looking for what to wear to the Eras the Taylor Swift Movie tonight. 


We made friendship bracelets to trade or giveaway. 

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We tried on a few wigs. I purchased heart shaped glasses along with sparkly makeup and some jewels for our face around the eyes. 







Thursday, October 12, 2023

Is it the weekend yet?

 It's Thursday October 12th. One more day to the weekend. Thankfully, today is my Friday! One hour of work plus some travel time and then its errands to Costco, the bank, then finally house purging for me! Seems like a good Thursday plan! I got zero done on house purging yesterday after being so productive the day before. 

I'm working on cleaning out the front sitting room and our office and maybe the laundry room. Not sure if I'll get all three done or just a little in one room. It's at least on my todo list for today and tomorrow. I think it helped taking some caffeine in the morning to give me an energy boost! 

It's going to rain today and Friday into Saturday morning.  We are now home till it warms back up in spring. Well, there is a small chance we could go to the lake and do some day clean up of branches and hit up the brewery's Octoberfest. We could also stay home and not freeze over night sleeping in the car or tent. It's only going to be 60 during the day but temps at night look around 43*F, which is pretty chilly! I read that 50*F is probably the lowest to go with not being overly uncomfortably cold all night. I need to try the hot water bottle to see if that would work at night. I'll try that at home today and test it out tonight. Might as well do that for spring camping because if it works, might be helpful to start doing on cold nights. A warm sleeping bag is key to sleeping good! 

Here's a few more photos from last weekend. 





I bought tickets to see Taylor Swift Eros concert at the Movie theater. Tickets were $25 each! Its three hours long and if we were to pay to see her in concert it would have been 1000 times more expensive! I'm excited to have plans this Saturday night. We are also going back to a bakery in Excelsior and then Celina has a soccer game on Sunday. 



Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Time to clean up!

 I need to start tackling our house. Going through each room and purging. We've collected far too much in the 24 years we've lived here. The longest house I've ever lived in by 14 years! 

I started cleaning up our master bedroom. I finally unpacked my bag after having it packed up ready to go all summer. Hung up all the misc clothes and then went through all the drawers and cabinet in our bathroom. Just purged a lot of stuff we were keeping that had been in the drawers for years! I don't think we are ever going to use hotel shampoo bottles from 20 years ago! We have lots of soap bars too, but I didn't throw those away, but probably should since we will never use them. I could probably keep 2 max and they will still be in the drawers years from now. 

I'm going to start going room by room and purging. I should be able to go through my closet a few more times and take clothes to Goodwill.  We have far too much stuff that just takes up space. 

After the purge, I'll clean the room throughly too. Next is going through the half bathroom cabinet and then the front rooms/ office and sitting room. 

Eventually I'll take some photos and post! Maybe not the before! lol.. 



Monday, October 9, 2023

Thursday, October 5, 2023

Thursday!!

 Wednesday night. I didn't take any photos, but we met up with Kirstin in Woodbury for dinner last night. She was visiting her parents for the week. This bird was a cute photo at the bar in the restaurant we went to last night. 

Took a few photos of Zoey on Tuesday in the back yard. 



A throw back photo of me and Kris in our 20's. Early 90's big hair!! Perms


Landsboro and the North Shore!

 Opposite ends.. First off to Landsboro/Preston for the weekend Friday - Sunday and then to the North shore Sunday- Tuesday! 


Starting at the end.. Grand Marais to the beginning of the trip Preston!
Grand Marais view from the Crows Nest Rooftop Bar

71*F degree day on October 1st. 
Hike up the Mountains 2 hours! 



Still some fall colors... all the Maples were pretty much done. 













Lutsen mountains



Lake Clara camping. Only 60*F at night! 




Thick fog coming into Duluth
Sunday morning leaving Preston. Goat farm /Hipcamping

Landsboro


21 mile bike ride on the root river trail. 
Camping in the woods. 







Hike along the river. 










Photo dump.....and future

 Here are a few photos from July..... Logan and friends at the Twin's game, but went for the concert after... Me and Logan dressing up a...