Happy Halloween!!!

Oh, it's been way too long since my last post here...I'm going to try and do a better job keeping up with my blogging :) I decided to post a few pics from last Halloween, with the exception of the photo of our kitty.

It's really raining here right now and I hope that it slacks off by this evening for Trick or Treating. My kids my been excited about going for weeks and I would hate for it be rained out. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!!! I hope every one has a great Halloween and gets lots and lots of candy!

We're planning on going to the mountains tomorrow to look at the leaves. Hopefully I will have lots of beautiful fall photos to post.

Biltmore in Ashville, NC

We went to Bilmore and couple of weekends ago. It's one of our favorite places to visit. You'll probably see me post lots of pics from there. These photos are from a new area they added a couple of years ago. It is located beside the winery. It has a petting zoo, a wonderful garden area with vegetables and herbs and a demonstration/shopping area. The kids love to go here. They tire pretty quick of the house and really look forward to seeing the animals. I'm really glad they added this new section because the kids just love it.

I also took lots of pics up at the house and the patio garden. They are on my BradyBearsStudio blog, if you would like to see those.

Our New Kitty!!!

We have a new addition to our family. This new kitten, which we have not yet named, decided last week to adopt us. We started out last week on one of our usual family walks around the neighborhood. We got to the end of our street and I heard a kitten crying. I said "oh, somebody has a new kitty" (didn't realize it was going to be me LOL) Up pops this kitten, she zeroed in on us and of course my girls zeroed in on her. She came be-bop-in over and we all took a turn petting her. After a while we said "time to finish our walk". Well, kitten decided to walk with us. So we took her back to the yard she came from. She just turned around and came after us. She followed us back home, up the driveway and past our barking dogs. We took her back twice to the neighbor, but no one ever answered the door. We posted signs and a message on our neighborhood website. No one ever claimed this sweet little girl. I took her to the vet today. She's 3 months old. She's a real doll and her motor runs all the time. So now we have 2 dogs, 2 cats, a 5 year old goldfish and 3 hermit crabs, whew........ :)

Everything for the Garden...

This is a really cool catalog I have that dates from 1938. I came across it last night when I was cleaning out some cabinets. I totally forgot I had it. I love the photos in it. I wish I could order some of this stuff, but then it wouldn't do well in my very shady yard. I selected a few of the vegetable photos to post. The catalog has a total of 144 pages and it's in excellent condition. I have more photos posted on my Brady Bears Studio blog. I posted all of the flower photos there.

Highlights from my garden...

I planted a small garden this year. My yard gets very little sun, but I had one small spot I decided to plant. I put out pumpkins, which have taken over :), tomatoes, peppers, basil, zinnias and sunflowers. My tomatoes have not done very well, they keep rotting. I think we've just gotten to much rain, which is very unusually for us this time of they year. My Zinnias are doing well but I only ended up with a few Sunflowers. I think most of the seeds washed away with all of the rain. Anyway here are some highlights of what came up and some flowers around my yard.