Simple Pleasures #2

Still enjoying the cooler temperature...still wearing my hoodie--inside the house...

and have a pot of homemade vegetable beef soup cooking on the stove and those wonderfully fragrant apples baking in the oven...ahhh.....lovely just lovely....

just welcoming the Fall!

Hey! Embrace the child within and do something...FALLISH!

For the record...

for the record...in my previous blog I wrote the word "here" meaning to write the word "HEAR"

and for some reason blogger won't let me edit it.... oh well!

I am a pretty good "speller" and know how to use most words correctly! ;)

Simple treats and pleasures!

Okay...I know what you're thinking. Here she goes with those blasted windows...again!

Well.....sort of...just humor me, okay?

This morning I got up and unlocked the doors and went out on the screened porch. CHILLY!

57 degrees! WooHoo!!!! Got my hot coffee in my Alice Jules mug and had to grab a hoodie!

Even turned on the "fire" and had the fountain bubbling. (can it get much better than this??)

Then I realized that I could OPEN the windows!!!!! This may seem like a"nothing" to you but it's a "something" to me. First of all, I've never been able to open too many windows in our house in quite a while. Old windows, old screens with a few holes here and there and windows that wouldn't even open. NOT anymore! Oh what a treat for me! I went about opening windows all over the house and bringing the outside in! Now I walk around and here the birds, the insects...even car and school bus sounds. I'm loving it! Oh this cooler morning has really brought out the "child" in me!

Even having thoughts of baking some Galas and Granny Smiths with cinnamon, Stevia and a bit of butter! Hmmmm....am getting a whiff of them already!

Welcome Fall!!!! Welcome!

Some glimpses of Autumn in our house

I so love to decorate for the seasons! I do believe my very favorite time is the Autumn...

the richness of the season adorns most rooms and I can enjoy it for three months. I never tire of autumn scenes all around our house, spilling out onto the screened porch.

I'll share more of "autumn" throughout during the next days and weeks.

Saturday Night Festivities!

Part of our evening with our family in pictures!

We all gathered to watch the ultasound video of our new granddaughter and celebrated just being all together with pizza!

I had all these grandiose ideas of the pictures I wanted to get but once all the grands arrived

all of that went right out "the window"!

Wanted one of Brittany with her cute belly but it turned out fuzzy as did others. :(

I was disappointed but here are a few. I think Christian took most of these pictures.

Once we were all together they shared her name!

A New Prospect

My normal routine in the early morning is porch time with my coffee, usually my Bible and journal but sometimes I just go and sit and talk to God. And I usually sit in the same spot but this morning was different. I sat on the opposite side. I had a "new prospect", a new point of view and I caught a glimpse of another tree just beginning to display her light orangey-red leaves!

[You do remember how I am with the unfolding of brightly colored leafy displays :)]

Had I sat in my usual place, I would have missed them!

Then I thought, there's a lesson in this. You know there's a lesson in practically everything but sometimes we just don't take time to receive it and learn.

Sometimes we need to mix up our "routines". Take another route...look out from a new prospect, etc. Who knows how many wonderful miracles we've missed!

So today, even though Book club is tonight and the house needs some attention, I'm going to change my routine a bit, do things a bit differently, maybe take time to sit out on the 2nd floor front porch and enjoy a new point of view!

Hope you can do the same!

Welcome September!

"The morrow was a bright September morn;

The earth was beautiful as if new-born;

There was that nameless splendor everywhere,

That wild exhilaration in the air..."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow