OCTOBER 1-31, 2013

Nobody came to visit us this month, so we have been taking advantage of the opportunity to work in the yard and work on family history research and autobiographies.  A gentle month with little rain.
October, we have learned is the month of calm change on the Oregon Coast, least wise it has been that way in Gold Beach, Oregon.  We get to see the fog come back with a beautiful vengeance as we have the weather changing, but virtually no winds blowing.  The sunsets have been varied in their style and color.

The sunsets in October, we think, have been the best, with different ones each night.  The fog bank out in the ocean creates beautiful ones with magnificent colors.

 The cloudy days have even brought their own beauty!  We love to look out our west facing windows.  In fact sometimes we spend a little too much time doing this view gazing.

We took time to bake some home made bread to eat and share.  We took one loaf and some home made jam down to the missionaries as they worked in the Family History Library.  Yummy!

We also got to attend a couple of our church congregations famous pot luck dinners.  This one was a farewell lunch for Elder and Sister Kieffer who are leaving the first part of November to go home.  We will miss them greatly.  This is not them.  This is Kenny and Beth Ashcraft who decided to luau up our meal .

 And we thought we should Halloween the night up.

 There were lots of people there from our church and the community to say good bye to the Kieffers.  They have had a large impact on us all.

 Lots of people and as usual.....

 ....lots of food!  We love our little branch of the church out here in Gold Beach!

 Ann aged another year this month.  To celebrate we took a full day to celebrate.  We began the day by inviting the Kieffers to go out to breakfast with us at a restaurant in town we had not been to yet.

 The owner of the restaurant surprised Ann with her own personal birthday cake and sang happy birthday to her all by herself!!

 Then we went to serve at a local food bank that was packing weekend lunches for some of our local needy school kids.  After that we headed south towards Brookings.  On the way, we stopped and explored a few trails we have not frequented yet.

 One of those trails took us to Whales Head Beach where we let Bobby run a little and had a nice stroll and explore on this beautifully peaceful beach with only one other couple on it.  Bobby ran and ran and ran big circles around us, through the water and around the rocks.

 As you can see, he was a happy dog!!!

 When he finally slowed down a little, Ann and I got to do a little exploring.

 This is Whales Head Rock and the beach where we were.

 Then we got into Brookings, ran a few errands and went out to dinner at a Thai Restaurant .

 And then went out to a movie.  We saw "Gravity"  Intense!  Good Popcorn!  Good Birthday Date Day!!!

 So, anyway, the month has been kind of laid back, slow and relaxing.  We ended it with Ann decorating up the house, inside and out, buying lots of candy for all the Trick-Or-Treaters (because we live in town) and then we spent a nice quiet night with not one single visitor!  Wayne was happy!  He does not like to share his candy.  Ann was sad.  She likes all those little kids coming over!

 We spent half a day helping the Kieffers clean their apartment and load their car and then took them out one more time before they left for home.

 Then we ended the month with Wayne being called as Branch President to preside over our little Gold Beach Branch of the church.  He will be a much busier little boy now.  Here he is with his two counselors in the front row and the Stake Presidency (they preside over the coastal region from the California border up to north of Florence) in the back row.

 So, there you have our month!  For more detail you can check out Ann's Facebook Page.  She's really good at keeping things up to date!  On to November we go!!!!