Busy Day

I'm sure glad we had a dead day planned today because otherwise we couldn't have done all that we ended up doing. Everyone should have a day with nothing scheduled once in a while. Brian is helping some great friends rent their home while they are away (and hopefully coming back in a few years). Last night we put out "For Rent" signs on the main roads around the area. I'm not kidding, within 15 minutes of returning home, we had our first call. Today he's shown the place three times and taken several calls. It is so convenient to be around the corner because he can just tell them he needs 10 minutes and run out the door. He did get one call while we were at the lake with the kids throwing rocks in the water. He told them he needed about 10 minutes...so he was a few minutes late. I think he forgot we had to walk home from the boat dock with two little people with short legs and then he could jump in the car and go over. In any case, it worked out. Ben was a trooper and walked fast, even if we did have to trick him a few times to keep moving. I'd tell him to listen to the crunch, crunch noise it made when we walked through the leaf covered paths in the forest and see how the leaves flew out in front of his feet. Then we'd try to make them fly out higher and farther by walking faster. My favorite was racing to the top of the mini-mountain path to get back home. Picture a 8 month pregnant mommy, a tired four year old and a dad carrying a two year old in a backpack racing up a super steep hill with slippery leaves. No one was injured in the end and we had a lovely excursion to the lake. The weather was perfect, no jackets, gorgeous fall colors on the trees and the ground. Probably only a week or so left before all the leaves are gone and the beauty of autumn gives way to the bare trees of winter. Maybe the temperatures will stay mild again this year though.