Happy Halloween!

Thanks to all of you who visited my "Scavenger Hunt" post this past week. Many of you ventured to make a guess as to what the mystery item was in #10.  Some were close, but not quite close enough. If you recall, I gave you a hint that this item could "possibly be related to the title of my blog."  

I thought that was a pretty good clue myself, but perhaps just not quite enough information.

So, in my post yesterday, "What Do You See?",  I gave you another clue, but I am not sure that many of you caught that it was a clue, so here is the picture again:

Does that help?  Any further guesses before I reveal the real answer?

Well, here is another clue...does that make it any easier to guess?

I'm sure some of you are saying "Ah Ha! I see it now!", while others may still be scratching their heads. What does "Closed Doors, Open Windows" have to do with these pictures? Well, what do you use to close a door? 

Eureka! You've figured it out!! Yes! A glass doorknob in the sun on our back porch!

Yes, the mystery object was none other than the sunlight shining through a glass doorknob from my collection of antique doorknobs!

What do you use to "close a door?"  A Doorknob!

 Whew!  I'm glad we finally figured that out! 

Now one more "creepy" picture just for Halloween:

We were standing out on the back porch last night after supper, visiting with our kids, and I just happened to look over at this tree in our yard and noticed something I'd never noticed before:

What do you see?  Is it just me, or is there a scary Halloween face in that tree?

Never saw it before, so I'm thinking it is just for Halloween!

Boo! Did I scare you?

Now, in case you wonder what I do when I'm not taking pictures of glass doorknobs in the sun or creepy faces in trees and other crazy stuff, I do have a real life.

Yesterday, (well, actually the last two days), we decided to go car shopping. After much discussion, praying, and counting the cost and studying our budget, we decided it was time to do something about our 14 year old car with 200,000 miles on it before it decided the issue for us by breaking down. Now mind you, our sweet silver 2006 GMC Envoy has served us well for the past almost 8 years that we've owned it, and we have felt that it was a blessed by God vehicle that rarely ever gave us any trouble. But we have been thinking for a while that it was time to make a trade.  And so we went shopping.  After two days of test driving and haggling over prices and how much they would give us for our trade (not much!), we decided to take the plunge and buy a "new to us" car. We never buy a real "new" car. Looking at the prices of even the used cars gave us sticker shock and about caused us to back out of any deal several times... But finally, after more prayer and discussion we decided to sign on the dotted line and drive home in this:

Yes, another GMC vehicle...we figured the one had been so good why not try another?

This one is a 2017 GMC Terrain. Kind of a sparkly charcoal gray.  There was another beautiful sapphire blue one that I really liked, but it was more money and we couldn't quite make it work, so I compromised on the gray for less money.

And we pray that God will bless this vehicle the way He did the other, and that it will also last us a nice long time.

The family all came over to check it out and make sure we had a good deal. And they even brought us supper!

Our daughter in love and her sister (who is visiting for a while) brought a delicious homemade chicken noodle soup and some wonderful "Red Lobster Cheesy Garlic Biscuits". It was a perfect supper for a chilly fall evening after spending our day in a car dealership haggling...

And then after supper we all played a game of "Scattergories", which was a lot of fun.

It was actually rather brain teasing for this old gal, but that's a good thing. The older we get the more we need to keep "teasing" our brains and keep them functioning.

Back outside, a flock of Canadian Geese flew over the pond and house.

I hope they will decide to land in the pond and entertain us again soon!

A perfect ending to a perfect day.

Happy Halloween!!

Psalm 105:1

 

Oh, give thanks to the Lord!

Call upon His name;

Make known His deeds among the peoples!