potluck

This is a potluck dinner post. It includes all kinds of randomness that I found on recent memory cards in my camera and phone.

 

Last weekend we were in Niagara Falls/St. Catharines for a hockey tournament. Didn't take any photos. Except for this one...a gorgeous rainbow on Saturday morning as we were heading to a game. 

 

This next one is from two weekends ago at the Arthur tourney... Someone is all smiles after winning their last game against Owen Sound. (I think?)

 

The mysterious pink experiment. Solely conducted by Max...

He saved broken coloured pencil crayon leads (which happened to be mostly pink and orange) and poured hot water over them in a jar. This is what happened. They puffed up big, basically exploded and turned the water a very lovely shade of hot pink. A few days later, Keith and him added the contents of a glow stick to the mixture hoping to make it "light up". The pink mixture was too concentrated and there wasn't enough glow stuff to make it happen. The result was a very stinky chemically smelling mixture which we promptly disposed of. This was not a school experiement. It was just Max being curious. He can hardly wait to take chemistry in school. Clearly, he doesn't take after me. ;)

 

Hard at work on his homework. It never ends...

 

Keith left on Sunday afternoon to go moose hunting with his dad in the great north. He is due home sometime in the wee hours of Thursday morning. Max and I have more than enough to keep busy with so the time is flying by. Yesterday (Monday) was a warm and blissfully beautiful fall day. Heather and I texted back and forth and she ended up stopping by for lunch. It was so nice, we ate outdoors on the deck. Until we got chased indoors by bees....they just kept swarming us. We both did not want to risk a sting. They must have been after our pie... ;)

 

So that nice Monday....I knew it would be short lived....lots of rain was and still is showing up on the radar.  In the fall, our backyard is absolutely gorgous. Pictures (cellphone or dslr) just don't do it justice. There is one little drawback of this beautiful autumn splendor backdrop...the insane amount of leaves that fall on our little patch of lawn. Which of course require some backbone and muscle...

  

After Heather left, I dug in and got busy raking. Max helped with loading leaves on the wheelbarrow and carting them into the woods. We made sure there was time for jumping into leaf piles. That's a must.

 

 

 

And climbing trees of course. That's also a must.

 

 

 

 

  

 

Sunday afternoon, LeeAnne and Vanessa hung out with Max and me for a while. They both wanted some pictures done for Christmas cards. So we hopped into my truck and drove into the downtown and took some fun shots. At the very end I got a few of them mugging it up together for the camera.

 

 

 

 

That pretty much covers it all photo wise.

 

Max's hockey coaches have issued at 10,000 puck shooting challenge to the boys. They want to the team to work on their puck shooting skills at home so they each have to shoot a certain amout of pucks within the next couple of weeks. If they hit 10,000 shots as a team, they get a pizza and bowling party. Max is all over that challenge. He's been out there rain and shine.

 

Today there was hockey practice at 6:30am and hockey at The Zone at 7:30pm. And alot of other stuff in between. A tiring day for everyone. Tomorrow Max has a field trip all day and I'm going along. It's mostly outdoors. It's supposed to rain. I'd better get to bed. I'll need as much energy as possible to get through a soggy wet outdoorsy type day with all those grade 4 boys!

 

And only one and a half more sleeps til Keith gets home. Woohoo!