Beautiful and sunny

The past two days gave Portlanders beautiful fall weather! It's sunny and chilly.

Yesterday was a perfect day for going to the pumpkin patch. The sun burned the chill of the morning off the day. Blue skies were spotted with puffy white clouds. Everything was perfect until my daughter ran off and got lost. I saw her run from my sister to the cornfield. The corn was taller than her by two feet. Past the corn was a field. I lost her in the corn, though. My family and friends put on a search. The "security" at the pumpkin patch was notified. She had completely left the farm and ran into the forest. We only found her because she got stuck in blackberry bushes and was yelling for help. She said she was off on an adventure to find wild animals. No animals of any sort were found.

Ian gave me the extra set of the keys to his car so that I could put Maddy into her car seat straight away. We didn't find out that I left them on the top of the car until we heard them fall as we accelerated on the highway. We had to pull over and one by one we found them on the side of the highway. As we were coming back to the car I took off my long sleeve shirt, because it was so warm. This is the gorgeous weather we are having.

It is really cold at night, though, and in the morning. The minimum on our thermostat is set at 60 degrees.