Fall decorations part 2 of 3

 Just a couple pictures today because this is in the bathroom. Tomorrow will be the final post and overloaded with pictures.

Fall decorating part 1 of three

Before I get in to the topic of today's post I wanted to share the message I got yesterday from Sandra a.k.a. Madsnapper. Keep her and all the others who are dealing with this in  your thoughts and prayers.

No power yet and maybe not until tomorrow we're on 38 hours right now who knows when it'll be back on and I'm not doing emails because I'm on my data not Wi-Fi and I only get 25 gigs a month so I'm saving it for answering people if you want to post when you post tomorrow or tell him we're still without power

Now on to today's post.

 I recently took a vacation day to make a three day weekend. The first day was the fair parade and taking Gibbs to the groomer. The second day I spent cleaning my house and putting out all my fall decorations. There's a lot of pictures so I'm going to split this into three posts. 

These are all the pictures of the decorations I put up in the Ann cave. The majority of my decorations are either purchased at Dollar Tree or they are ones that I made.

This one is kind of dark but it's a sign I hung over the tv.

Head in the clouds

 Sometimes it can be said that I'm walking around with my head in the clouds. On this particular day I was actually hanging out with Gibbs in the back yard and I started taking pictures of the cloudy sky.

Week 14 drawings

 At the time I'm scheduling this post I have 2 more weeks worth of drawings after this one. I'm beginning to wonder if I should take a break from it because I'm liking less and less lately. Then again maybe it's just me. Good or bad, here is week 14.

Repeating and adding to it

 Today I'm going to repeat the work doodles that I showed you already. The reason I'm doing this is because it occurred to me the one day that while I've decorated the tops of the paper there's still all kinds of empty space at the bottom of the page that's just begging to be drawn on.

Starting with this one I'm now going to do the top and the bottom. I obviously have too much time on my hands at work. That or I'm slacking off and drawing when I should be doing more productive things.

That wasn't supposed to happen

 While it's still warm during the day, the evenings here are cooler and more comfortable. I no longer need the air conditioner running at night when I go to bed. I decided one evening that I would take the AC unit out of the bedroom window and just leave the window open.

Well all was going well. I had a hold of the AC and I pushed the window up. That's when things took a turn for the worse. The next thing I know the AC unit went out the window and crashed on the ground. Did I mention that my bedroom is on the second floor? 

I went outside to pick it up since it landed right in front of the basement door. Surprisingly it didn't look like it was all that damaged but I didn't bother to test it. It did however hit the outside light on the way down. 

Now I have one light that is hanging straight down. It didn't break either of the bulbs though. 

A quick craft

 Quite some time ago I had made a cling for a glass block I had. I can't even remember what holiday I had made the first one for. I was going to make one for each holiday/season but never got around to doing it. Recently I decided I would make one for fall

It's hard to reach the brown vinyl with the lights off.

Here's another picture with the lights on and it's much easier to read it.

Well that's disappointing

 My intentions were to share all the pictures I took during the fair parade. When I downloaded them to my computer they downloaded as an HEIC file. I had no idea what that was so I asked google. HEIC stands for high efficiency image container. It's the default image format for Apple devices. That's quite interesting considering these pictures were taken with an android phone. I have no idea how that happened and I'm not even going to try and figure it out.

Well turns out that even though I can't open these up on my computer I can upload them to the blog just fine so here are the pictures after all. This is just a few  that I took

Fair time

 Another Albion fair has come and gone. It ran from Tuesday September 10th through Saturday September 14th. Once again the extent of my fair participation was to sit in my front yard on Saturday morning and watch the parade. Today I have 3 videos of the school bands that went by. I apologize for the one that is sideways. 

This one is the local school

These other two are from nearby schools.

Tomorrow I'll share some pictures that I took during the parade.

I just don't get it

 I told you yesterday that I saw something Hobby Lobby that had me baffled. We were walking down the aisle that had all the Christmas ornaments and I just can not figure out why they make these or who would want to put these on their tree.

The first two are the most confusing to me.

The rest of them are also equally baffling.

What happened to the good old fashioned ornaments? Or at least make an ornament that is something that is actually related to the Christmas. I just look at these and shake my head and wonder why? What does this have to do with Christmas. 

Then again, the tree I put up in the Ann cave has wildlife type ornaments along with snowflakes and icicles. I suppose the wildlife isn't Christmasy either but it sure does come closer than any of these.

A day out with Amanda

 Saturday September 7th I went over to pick Amanda up for a day out. I had to say hello to Milo first

First we headed out to a craft show. Neither one of us got anything there.

No day out with Amanda is complete without going to Hobby Lobby

While I was there I saw these gnomes and thought of Ginny from Let your light shine.

After we left there we went to lunch at Panera Bread. It was cold and rainy out and this really hit the spot.

Tomorrow I'll show you something I saw in Hobby Lobby that leaves me totally baffled.

Unicorn wishes.

 I didn't draw this one in my regular sketch book but I thought I would share it anyway. After I took the picture of it I edited it a little bit on my phone.

Go ahead and dare to dream big today and be sure to sparkle all day long.

Miscellaneous stuff

 I'm just going to throw a whole bunch of non related stuff into one post today.

First a cake I recently did at work

After I blogged about the towel bar that I had my son put in for me some of you asked what it looked like. It's a no frills towel bar. Some of them were pretty expensive but I chose one on the low end. I mean it only needs to hold a towel.

Back when I sent out the September happy mail card, I also sent out a card to Presley. It was a happy back to school card.

Last but not least is a few of the latest work doodles.