A 'Summer' Day With Fall Weather!

I am LOVING this fall like weather we are having!

We slept with the back door open, the attic fan on and two comfy blankets on top of our regular bedding. It was bliss!

I'm happy to say I have spent a most contented day.

After our gazebo time with coffee and reading, I set about filling in my Country Diary.

I was about a dozen days short with a couple days from July, several in August and some in September and even two for earlier in October!

Summer arrived shortly after noon and we sat and visited in the gazebo awhile longer before we went in to the sewing room.I did some mending for her while she used the laptop to take care of some business.

I love to mend. I love to redeem something or restore anything.

Redemption and restoration.

It's a spiritual experience as well as a practical thing to do.

For lunch I made a Suddenly Salad all jazzed up.

I just so happened to have taco meat left over from the other night and it was the perfect addition to this salad.

We ate in the den while we watched a couple of episodes of Chesapeake.

Summer and I seem to be cloned at times.

She sat where Louis Dean usually sits and I sat in my usual place.

We crossed our feet at the very same moment. We sigh at the same time. 

When she saw some stick light bulbs on the table, I gave her one. I showed her the lamp I had put one of them in and took off the dark shade so she could see how bright it was. 

We both said 'wow' at the very same time.

I'm telling you - it's spooky!!!

She left before traffic and I went back to my 'rat killing.' That's we call what we are doing.

Is that what YOU call it? I cleaned the den which means that my whole entire house has had some attention paid to it. I can't say it's all clean because - in this house - that would be impossible!

But it's good enough that I can say we will come home to a clean house after our week at the ranch.

We leave on Wednesday. Dental appointments tomorrow or we would have left today.

It will be 23 days since we have been there. Not bad since it was 37 days between July and September's visit. We missed August all together!

From Dean's Facebook Page

Dean has been busy with chicken houses and peacock pens and I can't wait to get down there!

We had a garden this year and now it is time to pull up and clean up all the dry vines and such.

Louis Dean brought in this watermelon! What a surprise!

We planted both watermelon and cantaloupe and we saw them grow but something always ate part of them before they had a chance to get ripe.

This watermelon was a three bite treat and I threw the rest away.

Still - it was three bites of a home grown watermelon!

Maybe next year we will do better!

Last night I did, indeed, finish the Sledding Santa for the Give Away.

Now he will dry while we are gone to the ranch and then I will glaze him when we get home.

He should be dry by November first when Louis Dean will draw the winning name.

I am pleasantly surprised at the number of comments left on last night's journal entry.

It was more than I have ever had before!

By the way, the painting is a 12 inch square and I painted the sides of the canvas because you cannot easily buy a ready made frame that size and a custom one is pretty pricey. Since it will only hang during the Christmas holidays, you won't necessarily have to frame it.

Louis Dean is watching a little TV while I am going to the art table and work on my Chimney Santa.

He's been loading the truck for our trip to the ranch.

We are both so excited!!