Self portrait of a kitty

We got our Halloween box out and found the trusty kitty ears. Gemma loves wearing them, although I'm not sure she was ready for the response she got from them.

Here she is taking pictures of herself with my phone at the grocery store.

When we walked in, the greeter stopped us and told me they don't allow cats in the store. Gemma was tickled by this and then reassured the greeter that she was a girl, not a cat. Many other people complimented me on me well behaved or very cute cat as I walked through the store. At first Gemma thought it was pretty funny, but then she got somewhat overwhelmed. I'm not sure if she was overwhelmed from all the strange people talking to her or by the apparent lack of understanding about the differences between cats and a human from all the adults she encountered.

Gemma is a ninja

Gemma and I go to the weekly storytime at the local library. I'm not sure why I found it so entertaining, but this was the ninja week.

So, here are a bunch of kids with toilet paper wrapped around their heads practicing their ninja moves.

Fall

Seems funny to be posting this now, but I love our house's position in the trees. Here is the gorgeous view of the fall color in our backyard.

Connecticut

Playing the state license plate game while driving somewhere in Tennessee.

Mississippi River from Belmont State Park

It was a clear day and wonderful weather for taking a walk. The kids enjoyed running around and the grown up enjoyed considerably less running.

It was the kind of gorgeous day that had us marking this place down and as "return visit needed". Being that we had to get back to prepare for work/school and other responsibilities, we had to leave earlier than we would have liked. They had a pretty big campground, so maybe we will be back?

More signs.

I rarely read all the signs. I'd like to blame the kids, but the reality is that I usually am not a sign reader. The teacher in me is horrified about this. So, most of the time, I take pictures of the signs in case I change my mind about reading them at a later time.

I really (really!) do read a lot of them when we get home, but rarely when we are out.

These signs explain how Belmont, Columbus and Cairo were connected during this war time. For those of you who aren't sign readers, the answer is the river. All these towns were on the river, but opposite sides. The river was a major transportation route for supplies and people, so controlling the river was important.

Kentucky: Columbus-Belmont State park

While we didn't start out on a Civil war trip, it turned out a lot of the places we stopped had a lot of Civil war history. So, the closest place to stop and explore we could find was called Columbus- Belmont state park.

It looked really interesting online and the website indicated it would be open on Sunday occasionally. Sadly, the visitor center was not open. We were still able to enjoy quite a bit of the park, although we were wishing we could have seen the full museum.