Category Archives: Autumn

Frost & Flowers

Happy Sunday everyone! Hope your weekend is going well.

I worked diligently on Patience’s Christmas outfit yesterday and only have to make the tights before it is ready for photo taking. Yay! Next, is a Christmas outfit for Patsy. (See, she is getting some attention!) I think after that I will make something for Amelia Thimble. Sorry, no doll photos today.

Last Friday was my anniversary. I woke up to this bouquet of roses from my husband. There were 5 or 6 different fall-ish colors and types in the vase, so pretty, and they smelled wonderful all day while I worked. My husband and I enjoyed dinner together. We had sweet potato chili and cornbread. The chili was cooking in the slow cooker all day, so the house smelled yummy. I put a little cinnamon in my chili, just half a teaspoon, but it sure makes the house smell nice.

We had our first frosts yesterday morning and this morning. This morning’s frost seemed heavier than yesterday’s. The icy grass looks so white, like snow, and it is sooo cold. I guess it is time for cold weather since October is more than half over already.

As for the melons, these tiny ones got hit with frost. I did pick the two largest last week, one was a cantaloupe and the other was a honeydew. (They were seedlings that sprouted from store bought fruit in our compost pile.) The fruit was ripe, but quite flavorless and almost bitter. My brown thumb lives on!

Bye for now and thanks for reading.

And the Winners Are…

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Firstly, thank you to everyone for your kind and encouraging comments about my last 30 days of daily blogging. It has been fun and, reflecting back I have found that I have lived my life more in the moment. After all, you never know what will make it into a blog post.

Now for the winners of the Craftsy classes. I wrote everyone’s name on a piece of paper and folded it 3 times, so we couldn’t possibly peek! (That’s no fun!) I put the names in a basket—my daughter mixed them up and pulled out two names.

And the first winner is…

The second winner is…

So the two winners are:

Congrats to Rita and Margay! I wish you all could have won, but thank you for playing along.

Rita and Margay, I will forward you both the email from Craftsy so you can choose your free class.

Now, for a change of subject…

Today, I looked up at the sky and realized there wasn’t a cloud to be seen anywhere. We’ve had so many cloudy days lately that it seemed so strange to see zero clouds in the sky, not even a tiny speck of a cloud; the sky was simply painted in shades of blue, really so beautiful.

See, not a cloud anywhere!

And…

How do you get a teenager out of bed early on a Sunday morning (so she can do homework)?

Make her chocolate chip pancakes! It worked!

Hope you all have a great week!

Bye for now!

The Colors of Fall

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Yesterday afternoon I was walking around in our backyard letting my little guy (dog) sniff, sniff, and sniff. I was being a very patient mama. He hates taking serious walks on his harness, but loves to casually walk around the yard. Since he’s a little chihuahua he needs constant babysitting when he’s outside, wouldn’t want anything to happen to my baby. Anyway, I was noticing all of the colors in the leaves, even the decaying leaves were interesting to look at. So in the evening, when the sun disappeared (right before a crazy downpour), I captured some of fall’s beauty close up.

Way at the back of our yard we have an old oak tree. The leaves don’t turn red or orange, but are interesting all the same.

Weed trees and other weeds that grow in the back are interesting too, althoughI have no idea what these are.

Pretty maple leaves… from two different trees.

I’ve been enjoying apples from our tree again this year. The deer, wasps, and bees love them too.

The largest melon growing in my little melon patch is about the size of a grapefruit, not sure if it’ll be edible, probably not. There are quite a few more that are even smaller.