These are the trees lining the road to the golf course!

We only had a small dry window on Tuesday afternoon in an otherwise rainy week to play 9 holes of golf, but when we did it sure was a beautiful one.
The course always has great views, but with a lot of trees showing of their fall colors right now, they're even better!

It's getting dark a lot earlier now too, so we have to plan carefully to be able to even get our holes in before we loose sight of our ball and the course.



Afterwards we were hoping to pick up some sushi-to-go at a place we went previously but they were closed so we had to settle for Thai from a new-to-us place the Golden Leaf, on main street.
Not a bad second choice as it turned out, because it was excellent too!

 

Here's a few pictures from my walk around the neighborhood ..

First I walk by the blueberry bushes in Doug's yard, no berries anymore but still pretty now in their fall colors.
Through the front yard I step out onto NE Hyland road that starts (or ends, if you will) right there, which I follow, passing some neighbors, for a few minutes ..

                                   

Than I take a right into the forest where the huge oaks are turning yellow ..

Coming out on the other end I than connect with the 'main' road through the neighborhood, where I have a view over the little valley through which Hess Creek is flowing:

It's hard to see, but there's a creek down there!

A little further, this bright little red tree stands in the yard of one of my favorite houses around here ..

Following the road and making a right again, I end up at the Highway , where the railroad tracks on the other side pass over an old trestles bridge ..

I don't see a lot of birds these days, a lot have gone south already, but halfway my hike I came across this cute little guy ..

             

I think it is a Kestrel, a small Falcon ... they mainly eat insects and voles so this cozy trio of starlings sitting only a little away on the same wire were probably safe enough ..

                          

And look, finally, our new fridge has arrived! We'd ordered a new one 6 weeks ago but, like everything you order these days, compliments of Covid, delivery was hugely delayed ..
So, we spent the whole of Saturday swapping them out:

                 

Out with the old!

And in with the new:

James had created a walkway and ramp with some plywood and we were able to roll them in and out quite easily. We did take the doors off, and only had an inch on each side to spare, but fortunately they did fit through the door!

  

We've chosen a 'normal' house-fridge this time, since we're not going to travel much with this RV anymore and we don't need the gas function.
I'm not too fond of the stainless steel but we might put a wooden decal on it or some other sort of cover in the future. We'll see ..

  

In the meantime it's functioning beautifully, I've got a lot more room, and it's nice to have the fridge cooling the way it should, and not the (very) unhealthy 52F of the old one! No more mold also ..

To pay for all this, it's fortunate we both work now (just kiddin')!
Look, that's us, in Doug's office:

                                                             

                               

I can only be there when Doug's on route in the mornings, since we don't have enough computers for all of us, but since I don't want to work more than a couple of hours, that works fine for me.
For now, I'll be going in on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and when they're behind, but with me helping they hope they can now keep on top of things.

With these rainy days I spent a little more time puzzling, and finished the third and last puzzle I got for my birthday this spring.

      

Also, now it's colder and darker, we're also craving more 'stick to your ribs food', so I'm starting to cook a little more , other than just throwing things on the BBQ or going for an easy frozen meal and salads. So, I baked a meatloaf ..

It got a little dark there on the edges (burned BBQ sauce) but it was delicious!

 As for desert: Easy apple dumplings ..

 

(No sugar in those !)

So, life goes on .. but of course there's the (white) elephant in the room .. we soooo miss our sweet baby .. he's left a huge hole that's so very hard to fill.
We're both still so very sad at times .. fortunately we have each other for comfort ..
I'm trying to keep physically busy because reading and puzzling alone doesn't keep my mind of him for very long.
So I'm working in the yard, cleaning up my vegetable garden for the winter, putting things away around the RV, going for brisk (and wet) walks, getting groceries, obviously cooking and baking, and fortunately now there's working in the office also ..

We'll get through this, and we know he's in a better place, but boy .. it's hard!

We loved him so ..