Ain’t this pretty!!!

And How about this . . .

These are from two different days and we had nothing to do with taking the pics– We left that up to the caretakers.  We suppose we will have to thank them since as we mentioned before that we only see houses, trees, grass and an occasional squirrel from the out doors. 

Hope you enjoy the view from rural Iowa.

 And for you added viewing bonus (and LM[our]AO) pictures of the week . . .

What can we say . . . we laughed so hard.  We hear the trick or treaters really thought Bandit was cool.   Earlier this year Bandit got sprayed by a skunk out at the farm.  Even with a bath with special soap it took several days for the smell to go away and he was not allowed in the house.  His previous caretakers sent him the costume and voila. . . We guessed we just got really lucky and did not have to endure the whole costume thing . . . anyway we would have just hid out in the basement (in our double secret hiding space) until the coast was clear.  Hope there are no Thanksgiving or Christmas ideas for costumes or pictures  . . . and don’t get any ideas.