Wet leaves, gray skies and a toddler who has already pulled every toy off the shelf by 10 AM. We've all been there. When it's too nasty for the playground, these seven spots around town will get everyone out of the house, warm and dry.

01  Brushes & Beans, Murrysville
4550 William Penn Hwy. A cafe and paint your own pottery studio, with hundreds of pieces to choose from. Brewed coffee starts at $2.25, and painted pieces are ready for pickup in about 14 days.

02  Murrysville Community Library
4130 Sardis Rd. Free storytimes for babies through preschoolers. Open Mon and Tue 9:30 AM to 8 PM, Wed to Sat 9:30 AM to 5 PM.

03  Delmont Public Library
75 School St. Baby and Toddler Storytime (birth to 2) Tue at 10 AM, Preschool Storytime (3 to 5) Thu at 10 AM, plus a Wednesday morning Playdate. Registration suggested, not required.

04  Steel City Parkour, Export
5035 Old William Penn Hwy. Any Age Open Gym Tue to Thu 6 to 8 PM and Sat 11 AM to 2 PM, $15 for an hour or $25 for two. Kids under 8 need an adult on site. Homeschool open gym runs 12 to 4 PM on the 2nd and 4th Thursday and 1st and 3rd Friday.

05  Lil Bunny Play, Monroeville Mall
Suite 246. Indoor play for ages 0 to 10, open Monday to Friday 1 to 7 PM. Mon to Thu $8 an hour for 7 months to 2 years and $10 an hour for 3 and up; babies 6 months and under free. Socks required.

06  The Trendy Bunny, Greensburg
123 McKeon Way. Play cafe open Mon to Thu 9 AM to 4 PM and Fri 9 AM to 3 PM (until 7 PM Fridays through January). $14 day pass, $10 on Wednesdays. Socks required.

07  Nesbit's Lanes, Plum
3501 Leechburg Rd. Bowling at $5 a game for juniors, $6 for adults, shoes $3.50. Call 412-793-5556 to reserve a lane.

Partly sunny and unusually warm, high near 78. Rain moves in after 7 PM and is almost certain overnight, low around 60. Thursday morning stays wet with a high of 72, then Friday is partly sunny near 66. The weekend turns cooler, in the upper 50s with lows in the mid 30s.

Full Murrysville Forecast (National Weather Service)

Franklin Regional came from behind to beat defending champion West Allegheny 3-2 on a rainy Monday night at Thomas Jefferson, TribLive reports, sending the Panthers to the WPIAL 3A final for a third straight year. FR, the No. 2 seed at 17-1-2, lost the last two finals and now meets neighbor and No. 1 seed Plum (19-0-1).

The only blemish on Plum's record is a 1-1 draw at Franklin Regional in September. The title game is Thursday, Nov. 5 at 8 PM at F.N.B. Stadium in Pittsburgh, so pack the rain gear and the navy and gold.

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Environmental group PennFuture has released a model ordinance that towns can adopt to require planted buffers along streams as warehouses and data centers cover more Pennsylvania land, TribLive reports. Murrysville is held up as an example: its buffer at Community Park on Farm Road protects the headwaters of Steele's Run, a high quality stream.

Town officials told the paper the project did double duty, making the area nicer for recreation while earning credits toward state sediment goals and helping with flooding. Murrysville generally looks for 30 to 50 feet of buffer on each side of a stream.

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Franklin Regional Middle School's 8th grade performing arts students will host their annual Veterans Day show at the school, 4660 Old William Penn Hwy., according to the middle school's news feed. The evening show is tonight, Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 7 PM, with daytime shows Thursday at 9 AM, 10:45 AM and 1:45 PM.

Veterans who attend the 10:45 AM show are invited to stay for lunch. To let the school know you are coming, call 724-327-5456, ext. 2003. It is a lovely one to bring a grandparent or neighbor who served.

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Long before Export was a borough, Scots-Irish settlers John and Anna McIlduff gave land for a place to worship, TribLive reported. Services started in a tent. By 1831, Lutheran and Reformed congregations shared a log church on the site, and banker Thomas Mellon is said to have attended as a young man.

The Reformed congregation built a brick church in 1856 that became today's Emmanuel Reformed UCC on Hills Church Road. In 1884 Emmanuel Lutheran moved into the white clapboard church on Roosevelt Avenue. From the 1970s to 1995 it housed the first Murrysville Christian Concern thrift shop, paid for in part by burial fees from a pet cemetery on the grounds. Export took ownership in 2001, and it is now home to the Export Historical Society. Look closely in the churchyard: about two of every three stones carry the Duff name.

At 4515 Round Top Road stands a two story log house built around 1785 to 1790, about 30 yards south of old Forbes Road, TribLive reported. Locals long called it a blockhouse, and an addition went on before 1830. Its last resident, Miss Bessie Staymates, was a local teacher, and the municipality bought it in 1977. You can admire it from outside anytime, and the historical society opens it for Christmas at the Cabin on Sunday, Nov. 22, from 1 to 4 PM.

Learn more: White Valley Church history (TribLive)
Export Historical Society
10 unique things in Murrysville (TribLive)
Murrysville Historical Preservation Society events