Catching the Light, Baked a Cake and Wonky Donkey.....Thursday.

We have had another lovely fall day - not chilly enough for a fireplace but I did wear a light sweater and we didn't have to use the AC!

This afternoon Louis Dean and I went out and finished up the rain curtains.

This is our third gazebo and wears parts form the previous ones - making it sturdier than just a normal gazebo. This one is- and the others were - planted in concrete and has railings to keep the wind from blowing the curtains inside. Our last covers had corner drapes on the outside and Velcro straps to hold the netting and curtains all together in the four corners. We always keep our screens in place but do like to open up the curtains in good weather. I hung the darker brown corner pieces inside between the screen and the rain curtains. They had faded in the sun but you don't see that side from the interior and the new curtains cover them on the outside. I like the way it looks. We seldom throw anything away if there's a chance we can use it somewhere else. I love re purposing things!

It was late afternoon when we took a glass of wine and settled down to rest after all the tweaking we had done. He was in his chair and I was on the small glider......

when I thought I saw a hole in the gazebo!

After all we had just done - I couldn't believe it!

Turns out it was the sun! We never could figure out where that hole was the sun was shining through and before we knew it - the sun had gone down a bit more and the hole was gone!

We are so happy with all we have accomplished this month.

Bit by bit we are getting it done.

Louis Dean was hungry today.

We've been eating up all our leftovers, cereal and easy food since we'll be going to the ranch next week. He said he wanted STEAK but I didn't have any.

He got chicken!

I had bought a huge package of drumsticks thinking I might cook them when the grands were here for the weekend. So I thawed them out and fixed them three different ways. On half I used Shake and Bake (Louis Dean LOVES that!) and did a fourth with Buffalo Hot Sauce and the rest with BBQ sauce. All three were good.

When I was putting them in the oven I was reminded of a funny story.

Not too long ago Sherry ( the lady Summer lives with in Rowlett) asked Summer to pick up a dozen drumsticks. So she did. Then Sherry wanted to know why she bought so many chicken legs!

THIS is what she was wanting!!

 I remembered I hadn't baked anything for the nursing home visit tomorrow so I whipped out the recipe from Estelle's !

She does things right but I tend to ad lib!

I baked it in a rectangle pan to better cut pieces to serve at the nursing home.

I thought I had over baked it at first but we cut a piece and pronounced it delicious!

To see what it is supposed to look like - please got to her link and see it in all its glory!

My friend Tim picked up his Wonky Donkey tonight and I worked on the last two.

Maybe a few more details and then it will be let dry and glaze time.

This video of the Scottish Grandma reading to her grandson will make you laugh!

I knew I would be cleaning up my art table tonight so I tried to finish up as many little projects as I could.

A little messy but it was a quick painting.

This one is my favorite.

And now my Thursday is done!

I am about to close the house up, turn off all my thousand points of lights and go to bed.