My Morning Cup: October 2025

It is evening, and I have a Pumpkin-Spice candle burning.

The geese are back in the mornings.

The sun is golden now...and at night there is even a touch of frost in the air.

Decorations are all about sunflowers, mums, and pumpkins.

The exception would be a garden spider which has affixed her flat sheet web securely to a nearby plant and my arched arbor...normally I would clear it away...but this is October and she and her creation are inadvertently promoted to Halloween Decorations.

...and this is a must have item...

Yeah.

I know.

I need to get out more.

Week 5's football was great!

We watched The Colts absolutely trounce The Raiders!!!!

...40-6...

And although The Chiefs did not win...it came down to the last few seconds of the game...very exciting!

A lot of mistakes made on both sides (Jags and Us)

Trevor Lawrence tripped over his own feet and fell..Chris Jones thought the play was over but it wasn't..and then Trevor tripped into the EndZone and scored a touchdown.

...sigh..

You couldn't even make that up.

Kansas was beating themselves with penalties.

...flag...flag..flag flag...FLAG...flaggity flag flag....flag flag...FLAG...FLAG...flag and flag...

14 times.

Mostly holding.

...TBH...for years they have hung off opposing teams like small rat terriers and never been called for it...

Andy might want to let them know when the jersey stretches several feet out...it is time to let go.

...just saying...

John and I are excited for tomorrow and Week Six.

Good Food and Football!

Watching all the spooky movies now.

Vampires...Werewolves...Spiders...Stephen King Stuff...and tonight: 1954's THEM (B&W radiation-mutated ants)

Campy...yes...but a lot of fun!

love,

Carla

Woke to the sound of crows instead of Summer songbirds...

Can the geese be far behind?

The leaves are slowly turning orange and scarlet...the air on these chilly nights smells like a bonfire and hoodies and sweaters are now the fashion!

Fall is back!!!!

Fat Bear Week is over...and there were some serious contenders...

but when it was all said and done...with over 97,000 votes...

Our CHUNK...tipping the scales at over 1200 pounds...emerged victorious!

TBH, even though I started out wanting 602 to win...I ended up voting for this battle-scarred behemoth in the end.

Maybe we all did.

When he first showed up in June I doubted very much that he would even survive the season.

A huge bite to his back, limping from an injury to his leg, and his jaw completely broken along with most of his front teeth...the jaw hung open and at an angle...the one canine he still had was broken and jutting forward...he couldn't even close his mouth.

He was a mess.

But #32 was smart.

He stayed away from everyone for a month or so.

He walked the banks and lived on scraps which were plentiful.

He rested his beaten and broken body and jaw in the ice-cold river water and ever so slowly learned to chew with his back teeth...healed...about 2.5 months in he moved back up to the falls and took his old fishing spot back...started catching salmon...his back and leg now healed and he could sort-of close his mouth again.

And now he has captured the title of Fat Bear!

Things change quickly in Alaska, though...and the bears in the morning mist...