The time has come!

The time has come for me to NOT buy anything else for the house or the porch!
No more pictures, lamps, furniture, knick-knacks...I'm done.
I am quite content with the way each room is "decorated"!
I came to this conclusion the other night after thinking about all our blessings.
Our home, our beautiful home to us, is a perfect reflection of who we are- our styles, our likes, colors...our lovely setting nestled in the "woods"...
all our favorite things!
I am quite content!

PS....don't faint, Mike! And I know what you're thinking..."I'll believe it when I see it!"

Grateful

Last night I sat on the porch reading by the "fire", sipping Earl Grey decaf and listening to soft music. I would read and then stop to speak to the Lord, just pondering on how incredibly blessed I am. Everything we have has been given to us by the Lord. He is the "Blesser"!
My husband, our children, our Grands...our home, our friends and neighbors...the very air we breathe...the rain, the Seasons, the beauty of the earth...our jobs, our finances, our gifts and talents...etc and etc!
The book of James tells us that all good gifts come down from the Father. If it's good, it's from God!
Just "counting" my blessings.
Take time to sit, get quiet...sip a little Earl Grey and start counting!

"Chomping at the bits" for...

a little Christmas music!

So, April, who is such a "product" of us who LOVE Christmas music, introduced me to aolradio.com today and now it's playing on my computer!
(she has been playing it for weeks...:)

And on the upstairs CD player.....

So nice on this rainy day.....ahhhhh, lovely, just lovely.

Our family has always been a bit strange when it comes to Christmas music.
Bill use to play it year round. How I would love to hear Johnny Mathis or Andy Williams drifting
downstairs while I worked in the kitchen.

May be a bit early for some but playing it early makes the season last longer.
Or at least that's the way we look at it!

Just for our porch!

Mike bought this yesterday at Sam's! Perfect for our porch! It's really an electric heater but you can just have the fire going for ambience!
Now as I read on the porch I can gaze at the "fire" !
It's the "icing on the cake" for our mountain-cabiny haven!

Absolute bliss!

Rainy, cooler...heavenly, quite heavenly!

Got chilly in church and stayed that way. Sat at Kami's looking out at the rain, geese flying in the sky, sipping hot tea...bliss, absolute bliss!

Am now heading to the porch with a good book and possibly a blanket!

Autumn

"September's Baccalaureate
A combination is of crickets--crows--and restrospects
And a dissembling breeze that hints without assuming--
An innuendo sear that makes the heart put up its fun
And turn philosopher."

Emily Dickinson

How true, how true!

15 and counting!

Fifteen pounds that is! Yippee!