What a storm! Our weather has been a bit extreme lately - from 109 one weekend to 50 the next, and then nice fall days to a winter storm blowing through, all in a matter of two weeks. We got 1.87 inches of rain so far, and lots of wind! Luckily, I don't think we lost any big branches, but our yard is full of smaller branches.

Dad got a bit better, but then took a turn for the worse yesterday. They moved him out of ICU Monday morning, but he is still hallucinating, and got out of bed, and fell. X-Rays showed a fractured hip, according to Mom, but I don't know how much damage was done. They were going to do a CT scan of his head to see if they could figure out why he was hallucinating so much.

Dawn and I had a nice visit in Susanville - beautiful fall weather while we were there. Mom sent us home with a bag of apples from her tree, and Dawn made an apple pie on Monday. Mom's tree is full of apples! (Her peach tree was full too, but the wind blew off all but literally about 4 peaches!)



David was watering the lawn while we were there, and the birds were getting their last bath by choice for the season I think! Mom said they had almost an inch of rain yesterday with this storm.

(close up of the bird on the fence)