Fall Festivities

What a beautiful fall day. It started out a bit dreary and a little cool, but the sun broke through and the temperature climbed to about 65. It was a perfect day and it looks like fall. The trees are actually getting very pretty.

My day didn't begin until about 8:30. I've been sick all week; Thursday and yesterday were not too good. I came home, took medicine, and went to bed. This morning's extra rest really helped out a lot. Thankfully, I'm feeling much better. After a morning of leisure, I got dressed in comfortable clothes and headed to school for the annual Fall Festival.

This is the major fund raiser sponsored by our parent group, PACE, to help support the programs of the school. When you are private, there are no state or federal funds to help out, so this is an extremely important day in the life of RCS. In the pictures that follow, you can see some of the festivities.

The DARE cars were brought out for the kids.

There are games in every classroom for the kids to play, inflatables outside to play on, a bake sale inside, country kitchen outside with breakfast foods and then lunch foods, PACE school memorabilia inside to buy, and the major event.

The silent auction hosts the the most incredible themed baskets you've ever seen. These baskets were valued at several hundred dollars. This picture doesn't do justice to what was inside and the beauty of these baskets.

Last year, this day reaped about $30,000 for the school. New to the festival this year was a 2-mile Harvest Fun Run. Everyone seemed to have a great time. I know I enjoyed being out and about. I bid on a Christmas basket, but it wasn't enough to bring it home. I enjoyed lunch and visiting with the crowd.

After getting home, I walked in the yard a bit waiting on Collin. This pretty golden maple is in my yard.

He killed a 9-point deer last week and upon his return home from Brookland where he had done some odd jobs for his folks, we headed out to the processing plant to get the meat. We drove to the back side of nowhere so needless to say we were WAY out in the country and saw some beautiful scenery on our drive.

I made this one somewhat on the run. This view was beautiful, but the camera just can't quite capture that of the eye.

Happy Harvest,

Marcia