August thru November 2023

 We had some lovely sunsets in August and September.  We love the view from our front porch.

In August, our sweet dog, Daisy, suddenly got ill, with all sorts of scary symptoms.  It was really difficult to see her suffer and lose all sense of anything.  After three vet visits and several treatments, with no improvement, she passed away on my birthday, August 25th. Even though I'm not a dog person, per se, I had grown to love her and her death was much harder than I expected. We all miss her, and BethAnne and Lily (our other dog) miss her especially.

I love spending time with my niece Abbi, she's so sweet.

We had lots of fun with cousin Leeya when she came to visit.

Then in September we went to FanX in Salt Lake City with the girls.

They looked so great in their costumes!

Mark and I went to see the elephants at Hogle Zoo while the girls did Fanx.  It was a lovely day.

The elephants left Hogle Zoo a few weeks later to join the elephants at a different Zoo so I'm glad we got to see them.

We grew some too large zucchini, as usual, so creative Joy turned one into a Veggie Tales guy.  So funny.

We totally forgot about Halloween costumes until Halloween was pretty much here.  Luckily we had some from previous years and the kids looked great. Joy is some kind of mushroom person. Daniel is an Ender Dragon and Andy is Harry Potter.