Wonderfall

Fall is beautiful here.

So many great colorful plants and leaves.

Fall is a time of lots of yard work though!

We've been raking leaves every weekend for a couple of months.

Yesterday I hope was the end of the raking . . . .

I didn't think we had many leaves but still got 24, 39-gallon containers.

Lincoln is thinking a total of 160 of them for all the weeks.

WOW!

This year there has been an over abundance of acorns.

I thought we were imagining it, but have heard on the radio

that there may be triple the acorns this year.

(have I blogged about this before? hmmmm)

We got an entire 39 gallon container of them a couple of weeks ago.

Probably another one this week

and haven't even STARTED getting them off of the backyard.

We've got to get them up as they will choke out our grass.

No rest for the weary!

Some pictures I took last month:

Random place to eat

A few weeks ago

McKay needed to be in downtown DC

for a youth activity.

The walked from the Lincoln memorial to the DC Temple

about 13 miles.

Since we made the trip into DC we decided to stay the day.

We went to the Fine Arts Smithsonian museum

and then made our way back to Union Station

where we had parked our car.

We were on the lookout for a place to eat and found this:

A sushi place like none other that we've seen before.

As you can see from above, the sushi came by you on a conveyor belt

and you just picked which one you wanted.

The prices of each were determined by what color of bowl it was in.

Each spot had its own water spigot, supply of chopsticks, napkins

and other stuff.

Yummy!

and fun!

I guess this one is the only one in the United States

and I can't remember the name of the place!!!