A Quiet Sunday and a Sledding Santa Give Away!

We slept well last night with the bedroom AC on but as soon as I woke up, I went outside to see if the cooler air that was in the forecast had really and truly arrived. It did! While not really cold - it was chilly and that's good enough for me!

I celebrated this cooler fall weather with oatmeal for breakfast!

The table setting was for a photo shoot only. 

We ate in the den!

It's been an easy going, slow moving day and I have loved every minute of it!

I spent some time in the gazebo catching up on my handwritten Country Diary.

I was missing a couple of days in the last week of July......

and then others here and there.

Thanks to writing this online journal, I was able to catch up.

If I don't write things down, I can't even remember what I did yesterday.

So many times I have gone back to my diary (or the journal) to look up things.

There's a code page in the back divided in ABC style to write the key words and date.

I should use that for more than recording the first locust of the season and the first fireplace of the year. So far - that hasn't happened. I'm thinking, though. If it gets down to 50 tonight and I open the French doors in the morning, maybe it will be cool enough to light the den fireplace!

I finished Rayne's Aladdin pants. I think she and Summer may come over tomorrow and I can fit them to her.  I also sewed a good number of strips for a quilt I'm making for a Christmas gift.

I laughed to myself as I thought of my dear quilting friends who are so gifted and precise. I just whack and sew and hope it all turns out. It's more of a craft project and certainly not in the same neighborhood as what real quilters make.

I cleaned the kitchen - and strung up another LONG strand of lights above the French doors in there.

Once I have lights some place - when they go out it seems really dark. I guess that's why I put them there in the first place.

I worked some in the yard. Not hard work. Just pulling weeds and tidying things up.

Tomorrow I will blow off the decks. Without the pecans this year (the few that were on the trees have already fallen) it's not as messy as it usually is.

It was a good day to slow down and enjoy the little things.

I don't keep the outside lights on all the time but this evening I lit them all up!

Spooky? Nope.

My heart has been at peace today.

Louis Dean is feeling better after his mishap with his medicine yesterday.

He has rested and played music. He has not done one lick of what you could call work at all.

Days like this don't happen often for him!

I had promised a Santa Give Away - and then forgot.

Glad I remembered before Christmas!!!

I actually thought the Santa was finished but when I took a picture of him - I noticed I have a bit more work to do.

No worries! I have kept the art table out and that's where I'm going as soon as I post this.

I chose the Sledding Santa since I painted THREE of them! 

One for my friend, Brenda, for her birthday. 

One for me.....and the third for one of YOU!

I promise it will be finished and hopefully dry by the time I pick the winner.

I will put your name in the 'pot' every time you comment and Louis Dean will draw the winner's name on November first.

Now I am going to go paint for awhile!