October and November

 Working hard -- Melanie prefers to do the work that's difficult with company around. If they help or do it for her, that's even better!

 Clucky-ducky still in solitary confinement. Her swollen crop shrunk, but she developed bad breath, a sign that she had stuff growing in her crop that shouldn't be there. And she'd get minor swellings that still needed minor massage treatment. But one night when checked on her I couldn't find her anywhere. After a thorough search I found her roosting behind Philip's car...time to move back to the coop!!

 Evelyn and Jennifer were given coloring pages from Matthew (I think). They really enjoyed being gifted the second hand present. Lots of coloring hours were gotten out of that!

 Jennifer is moving along with her work...but is being taught by her siblings that math is work, not fun.

 Evelyn likes to play by herself outside, and really can have a good time on her own. It's fun to watch!

 We had an early snowfall, which was enough to slide on. Lots of fun, for a very brief time.

 Melanie got sewing classes for the fall until mid-December, and she certainly has been sewing a lot of things since she started going!

 Our Lego is nicely sorted, but awaiting the furniture to keep it off the floor. For now, it is still usable, but awkward.

 Thought our coop was done? We did too, but then we wanted bird netting over the top (so we could relax and watch the hawks circling overhead, instead of panicking (is that a turkey vulture or a hawk!?!?)

 And the chickens got pretty good at sneaking under the netting into the run that was closed and recuperating, so Nathan made sure that they could only stay in their allotted run.

 Daniel and Jennifer played in a marching band.

 And I set up a hopeful rink (beyond the pergola) where we hoped against reality, that the ground might be flat enough for an easy shallow rink.

And one day coming home from dropping off Matthew for piano I found to my surprise an unexpected sign. We're moving? Is the bank foreclosing on us without giving us warning? What is going on???

I called the realtor and complained (after all Nathan and Melanie were babysitting at the time and were a bit nervous about this happening while I was out) and we got a box of chocolates and an apology out of the deal. :)