Ready for winter ....

On Sunday I spent a little bit of time cleaning

up the deck and patio .... getting ready for winter

 

the flowers have about had it for this season

so I cleaned all of those up

and good grief.......had pine tags everywhere

so I got all of them bagged

and the furniture stacked up and covered

 

I'm ready for the first snow now :)

below are the before pictures.......

 

 

I brought the lanterns in as I'll use them in my Christmas

decorations. I may give the large ones a new coat of spray paint

they really got dull during the summer from the sun

and now look, all cleaned up!

 



 

later.....



Fall flowers ...

Who doesn't love the colors of fall flowers

so rich, so beautiful

 

I was grocery shopping at Trader Joes on Saturday

and they have the best prices on their flowers

well, they do on their food too......ha!

 

So I treated myself to a bouquet for the kitchen

 

 

later.....



Pumpkin seeds ....

I roasted the pumpkin seeds from our pumpkins

on Sunday afternoon

 

after giving them a good wash, I dried them off really good

then spread out on a cookie sheet

drizzled with melted clarified butter

and a good dose of sea salt

 

In to the oven for about 30 min

yummmm

 

 

later......



Pumpkin carving ....

Jake came home for the weekend and suggested having

dinner on Saturday night since he always misses

Sunday night dinner

and with it, we could carve pumpkins

 

what fun.....except that Nicole and crew had to leave

as Gabe was getting sick and had a fever.

So we missed them

 

But Jake and Bucky enjoyed carving them up

 

Both of them drew out their designs before carving

and both of them had to turn the pumpkin around

and start over .... haha

 

Going to roast these seeds later....

Declan's first Halloween ...

 

Not a good picture, blurry.......but his look is so precious

 

I saw this idea on Pinterest and asked Jake to do for me

He did a great job!

And Bucky did his design to show his pumpkin is in shock
at Jake's pumpkin eating somebody.......zombie pumpkin!!

 

later.........

 

 



More about fall ....

Another thing that I love about fall is that

we see the most beautiful sunrises and sunsets

they are so beautiful....

here is our sunrise on Oct 8th
these were taken at 6:50 am right before heading out to work
no touchups......the colors started as
pink and purple
and in a matter of minutes changed to orange
breathtaking......

later.....



Fall ....

I can't believe that I have

had these in my house for a couple of weeks

now and haven't had a single one

and I love them......

 

Losing weight, outstanding lab results and feeling great

are all things I have gained through clean eating

but I think the biggest thing I gained was

WILL POWER....haha!!!

 

later.

It's fall....

Even though the calendar doesn't say fall

it's fall at my house

and here's why...

we had our fall small town parade

the one that lines up in our neighborhood leaving us

all trapped until it's over....haha

but it's fun

I didn't go this year though but here they are starting

to line up!

and look, I've put up my fall decoratons!

and Maddox had his bithday....

AND.....the leaves are changing!!

also, our weather is changing with the upcoming season

little bit of crispness in the air in the morning

very low humidity

and wonderful temps in the upper 70's, low 80's

I love the fall of the year!!

later....