and the rain stopped

 The rains finally went on their way, and the sun came back out. We spent an evening on the beach.

Children frolicking in the salty water and couples enjoying the colors in the sky

Gorgeous white dog!

Lots of dogs and people out enjoying the pretty sunset and warm evening.

Surfers, paddle boarders, young girls having fun

Beads today: lots of color and a little bit of everything! LOL

What in the world? At first we thought it was a jet, they are often spotted coming and going over the ocean. But it kept going more and more vertical, and Mr. Front Porch and I looked at each other and said "jets don't go THAT STRAIGHT up". LOL

It left behind pink billowing smoke

......and kept climbing and climbing......

the rocket zooming into the sky!

A closer view

Then we saw pieces breaking off it! By then we were pretty sure we were watching a launch of something. LOL

the piece we watched break off the rocket

A close up of that piece

We found out that we had viewed the launch of a

 classified NROL-101 spacecraft from down at Cape Canaveral. It launched atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket.

The launch of this spy satellite kicks off a flurry of more launches which included the  Crew-1  mission for NASA which I believe went up successfully this weekend and took up 4 astronauts to the Space Station for a long stay.

I've never seen a rocket go up before, so I thought that was pretty interesting. How bout y'all----ever seen anything like this?

Saw any good movies lately? We enjoyed this movie on PureFlix. A sweet little romance movie about a young Amish woman.

And we watched all 22 episodes of  "Hope Island". (1999) I wasn't sure if I would like it....but after a few episodes, I started falling in love with the characters and the pretty scenery of this island somewhere off the coast of Washington. It's about a young Reverend who arrives on the island to re-build a community church.

(below)Christmas Truce, the story of a young Army Captain and a Belgian girl he meets during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. A sweet War time love story, nice history, and takes place during Christmas. I loved it!

IMDB

ION

I also loved this movie, Apple Mortgage Cake, about a single New Jersey mom of 3 teen sons, broke and struggling to pay her bills, her mortgage, and repair her falling apart home on her part time teacher's salary. She has ten days to come up with the money to pay her taxes and her mortgage. 

Hope everyone is having a good week so far, thank you for stopping by to see me!--I'm now on my way to catch up with y'all!

on a rainy Fall night

 It's raining tonight in our city. We are walking anyway!

It's been raining off and on for a few days now.

Umbrella and boots.........I'm ready!

"Raindrops keep falling on my head...."

                                      BJ Thomas 1969

Little doll is missing her shoe! Maybe her name is Cinderella....

"Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain......."

                                               the Cascades 1963

Wet peppers......glisten in the rain

Arm candy--telephone bracelets, LOL and tiny beads

"Well I love a rainy night, it's such a beautiful sight.......".........Eddie Rabbitt 1975

Happy flowers dancing in the light rain

Lanterns light the way...........

I love walking on misty, mysterious nights!

Fall is in the air

 

It was a quiet trick or treat night here..

We went for a walk and enjoyed that big beautiful moon!

college girls hurrying off to a party

this cute little doggie watched us from it's window perch!

our girl's costumes! LOL

love how these flowers sprang up in the crack in the sidewalk!

Hope everyone is having a nice Fall season!

I'm NOT doing well with the time change...nope, don't like it one bit. Trying to adjust.