Groot Delivered

I dropped Maddie off at school this morning, and then it was time to get to the Botanical Gardens again.  Mom got the finishing touches on Groot, or at least a few of them - she added more later.  But we set Groot up in the front yard, and he turned out rather well!

Afterwards, we went over to the Botanical Gardens and carefully unloaded him from the car, placing him in the drop zone to get ready for the yearly scarecrow display at the gardens.  This would be our third effort, and again this was mostly Mom who did the work.  Although Ye-Ye built the body some time ago, and I drew out the eyes and cut out the face and top.  But Mom did everything else, and she does enjoy doing that.  So we set him up in the drop zone, and Mom put a few more finishing touches on Groot as an employee was dropping off their own scarecrow as well.  The employee even snapped a few pictures of us together working on Groot, and then posing with him.  Those might show up later although he used our cell phone for one of the pics.

It was a good day.  We got back and I had to finish proofing a book, but it's so lovely out there on our front porch, which is our new habitation of late.  Mom and I set up the infuser out there, make a couple cups of tea, and spend our mornings out there with devotional time.  This afternoon, I was out there reading through and making corrections to a booklet, one of the more tedious aspects of employment.  

Maddie had the tediousness of calculus to contend with, and it has been at such a level that she actually didn't go to taekwondo tonight in order to focus on finishing up some assignments there.  To help with motivation, we announced a break point, the moment when we'd both go out to Oakwood to get some boba tea.

Maddie got some rose flavor, which she thought was good and might get again, although not her absolute favorite.  We dropped by the grocery store after that and picked up a prescription, plus a few things like more ice cream.  Can you believe that the Christmas flavors are already there?  Maddie got some peppermint candy cane ice cream while there, one of her absolute favorites.  All the Christmas blends were there, including egg nog and Christmas coffee.  We just went with the peppermint to start with.  

We got home to check out tonight's feature presentation, "Hotel Transylvania," which we first saw twelve years ago now.  We actually really like these movies a lot, but there's a nostalgia watching them too.  It's almost like the movie where we're the hotel and these characters we know and love are all returning so we can spend some time together.  It'll be great doing that tomorrow with the sequel, and then part three when they do the cruise.  Fun movies!

After that, it was time for reading, prayers, and a good night's rest.  Brooms are about to attack Disney, and the Kingdom Keepers have to figure a way to stop it.  We'll keep reading as we approach the end.  Meanwhile, I've dug out my last hard cover unread RL Stine book for the season.  Some time ago in a thrift store, I found four thick hard cover books, each one a collection of his novels.  I read the one with Sloppy first, of course.  Then there was a "camp" themed one.  And then a whole book with "monster blood" stories.  This last booklet is more of a random collection of short and spooky stories.  Should be fun!

Anyway, off to sleep now.  We tucked in the Plush Entourage, and of course we all said our prayers.  Time to get some sleep!