We skipped our walk once again as we needed to leave the house by 8:45 a.m. to get into town in time to watch some more football.  Since it's getting light later and later, we usually don't have enough time to take a walk, get cleaned up and eat breakfast, and leave the house to be on time for these early morning activities.  As we were driving into town, it was amazing to see how much the leaves have turned over the past few days.  The Maples are beautiful with their bright red and orange colors.  Even though the calendar says Fall won't officially arrive for another week, it has arrived in full force here in northern Minnesota.  Today was just about perfect, warm temps in the low 80's and no wind.  This is the last warm day--the forecast for the next ten days calls for high's only in the mid 50's with a low one night of 31 degrees.  That might be our first hard freeze of the season.

John and I spent the morning in at the Bagley High School football field watching Josh play.  The 6th graders remain undefeated and continue to improve more each week.  Hanna also had a volleyball tournament going on in the Bagley high school this morning, but we decided to watch Josh as we haven't missed any volleyball this year.

Josh blocking his man

 

Josh carrying the ball on an end around play

 

 

Rachel, Matt, John, and JD (coach)

watching from the sidelines

This afternoon, John took some time to start the job of cutting up the old siding that he and Matt dropped off at our place.  While John was busy with that, I worked on updating finances and working with a computer program for backing up my pictures on line.  Will have to see how it works out and if it makes it easier to organize the photos.  We took several breaks during the afternoon to watch some college football and ended the day by watching a few more games.