oh my!

WHAT A DAY!!!!!

Yesterday rained- it was warm at 19C but WET WET WET.

Last night Matt and I went to a do at the local historical histericals- they had an exhibition of barn paintings. And while I SHOULD have done a submission for it, I didn't

(at the time I was more into mushies). But it was fun and since we got dressed up anyway, we decided to go out to dinner afterwards.

BUT, the thing I noticed most was how many gorgeous frames there were made from reclaimed, weathered timbers. So today was the day to pull apart the shed. The weather was SPECTACULAR!!! The perfect day.

In fact I went out this morning taking photos in the gorgeous sunshine (LOVING my camera-even though I'm limited to my 70-300mm zoom /macro lens.)

I had lots of fun with the reflections in the puddle on the turning circle from all the rain yesterday.

And a photo of the shed before we began taking it apart....in this photo you can't see the damage caused by the fallen tree...

Oh, and some photos of the pumpkins on the stairs all ready to be carved. The ones we did a few weeks ago for the cub scout pack meeting have gone really mouldy and rotten...

An here's the shed...Remi had to do an assignment today where he went without any "technology" for 4 hours (and journaled about it)...perfect for tearing down a shed with nothing other than a hammer and gardening gloves.

Ella and Kit helped too, but it was left up to me to pull out nails hour after hour. And I LOVED it. I loved seeing how this was made ??? years ago. The old iron nails and bolts (I've kept them all). This side with the wonderful hooks I've kept in tact-can you imagine that as a head board or as a "shelf"....both a mantle and hooks! I get so excited by these things...SURE it needs some cleaning up, but it has so much potential.

Look at all that gorgeous wood I've salvaged! I'll have to book in some time at the local wood working place to rip these boards down and make them into frames. I pulled A LOT of old nails out of these...

But all the kids wanted to do today was carve pumpkins....

Me in my daggy sunnies scooping out the middle...

Since it was the perfect weather for it, that's what we did...I only hope they last until next weekend..

While I kept all the old squarish nails from the shed, I gave Kit all the newer rusty nails...I thought he might enjoy making a Frankensteins monster kind of pumpkin...

Boy did I get that one right!

Meanwhile Matt was building a fire to have a BBQ to eat dinner outside- I can't even remember the last time we did that!

Kit, Oscar and Ella got right into the pumpkin carving (Rem didn't want to do one).

Oscar's "wild thing" on the back of his pumpkin...
Ella's cat pumpkin.
Kit's pumpkin that weighs a tonne!

I love the "destructive creativity" in this-it's SO Kit!

Oscar's pumpkin...

Kit's...

Ella's...

Spectacular! I love that they all did these without any help. Totally their personalities. fantastic.

And to top of such a perfect day we got to eat wonderful food cooked on the fire outside.

There may have been some shed in those flames...

And even though it got cold and dark early, it was really such a SPECIAL day!