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Happy Thanksgiving! We hope that you have wonderful and safe Thanksgiving! This time of year is the perfect time to remember what you are thankful for! We are thankful for all of you and hope that you have a great Thanksgiving!

Fall home maintenance is an important thing! It helps keep your home nice and clean. It also helps protect your home from something that could potentially cause some damage. Here are some things you can do to help maintain your home! Change out air filters. You want to breathe clean air during the winter right? This is the perfect time to check your air filters and change them out for new ones! Remove your garden hoses from the faucet! Leaving them on during the colder months is not good at all. With the freezing weather, it could cause some preventable damage. Rake the leaves! It is easier to clean up debris and leaves outside when they are fresh than in the spring when they start to decompose and mulch. Winterize sprinkler systems! With the colder weather, you want to make sure your sprinklers are ready for it. If something happens to them it won't be good for your wallet. Winterizing them can help them from freezing and prevents damage. Prep your home if going on Vacation! Leaving for Thanksgiving or Christmas? Make sure to open cabinets that have pipes in them or leave them dripping. This will keep them from freezing and causing some serious damage to your home. Deep clean your house! This is the time to deep clean your home. Especially before your relatives come. Clean out those rain gutters! Rain gutters can get filled with leaves and other debris that will not be good if they get too packed. Cleaning them out with help protect your home when it rains and not cause damage from the gutters getting to pack. This list isn't everything you can do in order to keep maintenance up on your home. If you need more ideas a google search can help with that! We hope our little list gets you starting and helps you keep your home nice and protect from the colder weather.

It's the week before Thanksgiving, are you ready?? Here are some tips for Thanksgiving. Clean out the fridge! You will want room in your fridge for all that delicious food. Not only for leftovers but for all the food that will eventually get prepped and made into Thanksgiving dinner. Make A Plan! Be sure to have a checklist of things that need to get done before and on Thanksgiving. You don't want to forget anything. Grocery shop in advanced! If you haven't already, go to the store or do a pickup and get what you need for Thanksgiving. You don't want to go out on the day when everything is gone. Pre-cook/Pre-make it! Prep as much as you can before the day! The more you prep the less you have to do on the day. These are only a few things that you can do before Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving isn't too far away so start getting things done! Remember that Covid is going around and it is the start of flu season. Please do your part to keep everyone safe and healthy.

Need activities to do this November? You came to the right place. Here is a list of different activities you can do! Do the basic turkey activity and make turkeys by tracing your hands! Fun to do with friends or family. Watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. A cute show that will get you in the Thanksgiving mood. Make Turkey shaped pancakes. Makes for a delicious breakfast... or lunch or even dinner. Write thank you letters to friends, family, veterans, or someone that you would like to thank you for something. Learn to bake. Baking is a fun activity and it is a different more fun way to heat up your home. Host a Friendsgiving. If you aren't hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year might as well host a Friendsgiving. It is a fun way to spend time with friends and eat delicious food. (Of course be cautious with this as Covid is on the rise). Volunteer to feed the homeless. Learn how to say Thank you in as many languages as you can. These are only a few activities that you can try doing this November. Please remember as the weather is getting colder and Covid still around to be safe and respectful to people around you. Happy November!!

To all those who have served and continue to serve this country, we thank you! There’s no way to thank you for everything you have sacrificed for our freedom, but on Veterans Day, we try! Thank you for your sacrifice, your bravery, and the example you set for us all. In short, thank you for your service!

This is the month remember what you are thankful for. Especially this year it is a good idea to remember everything that you are thankful for. Whether the things you are grateful for are big or small it is the time to remember them. We challenge you to make a list everyday that you are grateful for.

Happy Halloween! Tomorrow is the day! We hope you have a fun and safe Halloween! If you are trick or treating please remember to be safe and wear a mask. If you are deciding to stay home here are some ideas of activities you can do. Halloween Painting Decorating Halloween sugar cookies Carving pumpkins Have a Halloween movies marathon whether scary or family friendly Taste Test Halloween Candy Have a Halloween music dance party Do Halloween Crafts These are only a few activities you can do but they can make Halloween a little more fun. Happy Halloween!!

Halloween is Saturday!! It has finally arrived! Have you gotten candy yet? If not, this is your reminder. Whether you are buying to treat your family or to make those yodas, princesses, and super heroes happy when they come to your door. This year is a little weird and you may or may not go trick or treating or have trick or treaters at your door but Halloween isn't Halloween without that Halloween candy so treat you and your family or even just yourself with some Halloween goodies!

Pumpkin carving is one activity that is under the definition of fall and Halloween. Pumpkin carving is an activity that a lot of people enjoy doing during the fall season. It makes for a fun activity with family or friends and a fun decoration for your home. If you are planning on doing it this season here are some safety tips to help everyone keep their fingers. Find a sturdy location. You don't want anything wobbling or moving while you are carving away. Use the correct tools for pumpkin carving. Using the wrong tools can make it difficult to carve and make it easier to have something go wrong. Do Not Rush! Take it slow. No need to rush through the process. Rushing it can lead to mistakes for you and the pumpkins new face. Do not put your hands in the pumpkin while carving. Have you ever hand-sown and accidentally poked your finger with needl? Same situation here but a little more dangerous. You don't want to poke yourself with a pumpkin carving knife. Keep your hands and the tools clean. Pumpkin juices makes your hands and tools gross and slimy. Keeping hands and tools clean keeps you safe from a slip of the hand or tool. Use fake battery powered candles or glow sticks to light your pumpkins. This helps prevent the risk of fires. Using a real candle has the possibility to lead to a fire but using a fake candle or glow stick prevents that from happening. Don't want to carve a pumpkin? Then paint it! Painting a pumpkin can be just as fun as carving. Its a little less messy and doesn't involve sharp tools. If you do carve a pumpkin we hope these safety tips help and save your fingers! Enjoy carving!