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| in the lane, snow is glistening
it started to snow yesterday morning....
and when we got up this morning, it looked like this...
This is very unusual for October. I checked online and our record snowfall for a day in October is 6 cm, which is slightly over 2 inches. We got maybe half that...which was quite exciting enough for my boys. I had to dig out the snow boots (and if anyone can tell me what happened to the boots that ds7 wore last year, I'd certainly appreciate it) and hats and mittens so they could go out and scoop up snowballs and make miniature snowmen.
I realized last night that snow makes me happy. I like the cold weather, and I especially like the Christmas season that goes along with this time of year. I'm looking forward to the next few months. 
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| fallen leaves, fallen leaves*
grr...Xanga is giving me fits this morning. So you get the pictures and the words in two different entries. And you're not getting many words at that, because I've already typed them up and lost them several times. 
The fall colour is heavenly, but my camera is not. Please forgive the fuzziness of the pictures.
*I actually cannot stand this song. My older boys are big Billy Talent fans, and I like to annoy them by singing this chorus in a monotone. So don't tell them I used it for a blog entry title, okay? 
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| there's a new kid in town
First of all I must say that I really did have this blog entry all planned in my head before I read Kim's latest blog entry.  It is not intended as a rebuttal or argument or anything even vaguely resembling an attempt at controversy.
Having said that...roll over Wii Fit, and meet the future of active video games!
Rather
than a heavy, somewhat finicky balance board, this game comes with a
plastic mat to step on. In the interest of full disclosure, there are
two down points to the mat. The first is, it has to be plugged in to
the console. Secondly, it tends to slid around a bit on carpet, but
I've found that putting my yoga mat under the Wii mat helps to
eliminate that.
This game is much easier than the Wii Fit to just turn on and get started. It doesn't want to weigh me every time I step on it 
. It makes no snide remarks about my weight being up since the last
time, and then turn right around and comment that it's perfectly normal
for weight to fluctuate a few pounds each day.
The games...oh, the games! 
Basically, they are running and jumping. Which gets the heart rate up
just a little. A little? For an aerobic workout, there is just no
comparison to the Wii Fit. The only games on Wii Fit to get my heart
rate up reasonably well were the hula-hooping (hard on the knees!) and
the jogging. But playing this game is like circuit training. I can
choose a jumping game that will get me huffing and puffing for a few
minutes and then pick something slightly easier to bring my heart rate
back down a bit.
There is free play, with a wide variety of
games, from a marathon to a sprint, to log jumping and trampolining.
Then there are "challenges", which are games put together in packages
entitled, "Endurance", "Jumping", "Easy" (Easy? I think not!), and so
on, which run for about 5 minutes.
Even my 4yo can enjoy
these games. He is just not steady enough to use the balance board of
Wii Fit, but he sure can run and jump on this one.
I have
heard that this is just the first in a series of Active Life games.
Bring them on! This is active video gaming at its best.
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| nothing seems as strange as when the leaves begin to change
Here I sit...7:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning. Dh's alarm went off at 5:45, as usual. He switched it off, rolled over and went back to sleep. I fought to wake myself up, and by the time I realized that it was Saturday and I didn't need to wake up, I was fully awake. So...rambles ahead. You've been warned.
Now when I get up in the mornings, it is still dark. Pretty soon we'll be eating dinner in the dark, too.But after the strange, wet summer that we had, we've been having some glorious weather. The skies are bright blue, and the leaves are just starting to turn yellow. orange and red. I'm hoping for a spectacular show from our sugar maples soon. Last year they fell before really turning colours, but it looks promising so far for this year.
Everyone is back at school, and ds18 is working at the supermarket near his school after school. I have never found it a real nuisance before, living in the middle of nowhere, but now that I have a son who needs to be picked up from work nearly every night, I'm wishing we lived within walking distance of something...anything!
Ds7's finger is healing nicely...thank You Lord! He's been really patient about soaking it every day, three times a day. He just grabs his Garfield comic book and reads to me while I work in the kitchen. Have I ever told you how much I love Garfield? 
Oh, and just as I was waking up this morning, I was dreaming that Kim MI and I and her family were taking the ferry to Jellystone Park (evidently the Mackinac Bridge was out and we were coming at it from the north, as my family did the time we camped there on our way home from the Soo, many, many years ago.)
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