Golden Light is Back

There is a time each year that my backyard just seems to glow with a golden light…and the above photo shows the source of this golden glow.  It seems like the colors are coming later this year…I’m just glad that we are starting to see some color.  I was afraid that the dryness of the last months would keep us from seeing much Fall color.  The gold color is so welcome! 

I worked around the house today…cleaning some things, washing another load of clothes, putting more things on the guest bed to pack, and making decisions about what to pack.  I had some special notes to write today so that took a bit of time.  My painter came and finished the painting and now just has a few finishing details and to fix the doorbell (Nathan's request of the handyman!) and, he will be done. He has done a very good job and I am very pleased.  The front of my house looks all spiffed up! 

All that I have done today hasn't lead to any sewing.  I have just gotten home from Bible study and think that I will have a light supper and then go up and think about making an ornament or two…let me just say that "thinking about it" won't get it done…and I do realize it! 

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Closer!

Tonight’s photo shows the finished part of the porch rail with the finished front door.  He painted another column that I didn’t show in tonight’s picture because the rail part between the two columns isn’t done yet.  Maybe I should just call the tall parts of the rail just posts…rather than columns?  Pretty skinny columns but they do the job that columns do! You decide the correct wording!  More painting to take place tomorrow afternoon.  The house numbers still have to be put back next to the door…several little finishing jobs after the painting gets done, but definitely much closer to a finish.

I have done various things around the house today.  I got some more things laid out on the guest bed for my trip.  I did a load of wash…due to starting to change over my closet from summer to fall/winter…may need some of these items for trip.  They will be ready if I decide to take them.  I’ve been checking the temperatures where we are going and they are only slightly cooler than we are here.  

Looks like we will make it through October without any freezing temperatures.  The weather has really been nice here temperature wise.  But we really do need rain.  It's DRY! DRY! DRY! here.  But despite lack of rain, I noticed today that my little shamrock plant that Linda H. gave me has pushed up new leaves and has flowers, again…even though ground around it is dry as a bone.

I have spent more time in the sewing room today…didn’t accomplish much, but a little.  I think that a few ornaments may see a finish tomorrow. 

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

A Bit of a Forgetful Day

I woke up quite early and did a few things…including putting in a few stitches in the sampler I am cross stitching currently.  But after I had been awake a few hours, I decided that I needed a morning nap.  I think that may have put me off, time wise, for the rest of the day.  Since I don't have a Sunday School lesson to prepare this week, I gave myself permission to go about the day doing whatever. I did plan to do some sewing.  I want to make the Christmas stitching I have been working on for most of the year.  So that was part of the sewing that I wanted to do, but I also had some t-shirts that I wanted to hem.  My other plan for the day was to begin thinking about packing for next week's trip.  I have started to put things on the guest bed that I won't need between now and Marie's and my trip.  And, I started thinking about what clothes that I want to take.  Just some preliminary planning…

I was cleaning off a table and found the shirts that I have been wanting to hem for some time.  I decided that was the sewing that I would start with.  So brought them into the sewing room and got things ready for hemming them.  They are knot tops so that involved setting up my serger for cover stitching.  That takes a bit of time…mainly because I don't change the serger back and forth to different stitches too often…so it takes me following a diagram and holding my mouth just right to get it set up correctly.  I managed the first time to change needle positions and threading it correctly and it sewed correctly when I tested it out…always a "hoorah moment" when it works correctly the first time!

I decided that I would watch TV while I sewed.  My TV in my sewing room isn't connected to my antenna, but my TV being a Roku TV, I can stream some things to watch.  I turned it on to see what I might watch and decided on old Columbo shows.  Of course they stream one show after another and I have no sense of time when watching TV this way. Because of my morning nap, I ate brunch around noon.  Then I got underway with my sewing.  And, I have really accomplished a lot.  I did get two shirts done and am planning on doing at least one more…that will eliminate that stack of "sewing to be done!"  I went downstairs to get something and Nathan called.  He wanted to stop by and borrow my Little Green Machine to clean some upholstery.  So he came on…I paid no attention to the time.  I gave him the machine and then I went back upstairs.  Not long after I got back upstairs, my phone rang and it was one of the people who attends the Furnace Room Prayer meeting that I do.  She was wondering if I was coming!  Oops!  I had totally lost track of time and really wasn't really thinking about what day it was.  I guess I had checked out on the day and was just concentrating on what I was doing in the moment.  I hopped in the car and did get there before it was over.  🙄 I don't think that I can just chalk this up to age…but then maybe this is a time to use my age explain something away!  I did remember to text the group this morning reminding them about prayer meeting…I’m just the one who forgot despite  my reminder!  I will say that I never looked at my iPhone or iPad this afternoon.  I did have my phone in my pocket…but somehow the settings have been changed and it no longer vibrates when a call or text come in.  I always have them on silence so they don't disturb…that way I don't have to remember to turn them off when I don't want to hear them…up to a few weeks ago I would know that they were ringing due to the vibration…but…either I or someone else changed something and I haven't figured out what to change back.  So I didn't hear when responses came in about to night's meeting…so once I sent the reminder, I got no other reminders to my knowledge.  Those are my excuses and I’m stitcking to them!  Hopefully I will be more tuned in to day and time tomorrow! 

Painting porch rails is supposed to start tomorrow afternoon.  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Sunday Photo Favorite

Domestic Saturday

Today, I pretty much just stuck to doing things around the house. I cooked and did a few things around the house all the while listening to another audio book.  So I added another book to my list of books read…though I had already read it years ago.  It was an Agatha Christie mystery.  I will say that I did remember the premise of the book…but not the outcome.  I did make gingerbread and since I made something sweet (I don't make a lot of desserts for just me.), I made a vegetable medley for my supper…trying to be a little healthy! But never got around to doing any sewing…did things downstairs and my sewing is upstairs.

I have read through the Sunday School…to see if it makes sense…sometimes when I plug things in (copy and paste) things into the IPad Pages app, they don't always land where I mean for them to…also sometimes the typos can be quite confusing when I try to share a statement and it no longer says what I meant it to say…and have to think on my feet as to just what I had meant it to say.  I think that I have added, fixed, deleted what I needed to and it is as ready as this lesson is going to be.  I will read it over again this evening or in the morning…just to have things planted in my mind as to what I hope to convey!  This will be my last Sunday to substitute for a while.  

This coming week I will be getting ready for Marie's and my trip to northern Georgia.  I’m looking forward to planning for another trip.  Got to get my cameras ready.  I do hope that we will see some color…not a lot of color around here at this point…wondering if we will have much color since it has been so dry these last couple of months. Anyway, my suitcase will come back out this coming week.

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Accomplishments

There are three major accomplishments that I can report tonight…I voted, as I will be out of town on Election Day, the painting on the door, both inside and outside, is finished, and I have the Sunday School lesson is ready for a final perusal…that might mean some changes, but it is "all but" finished.  And, I know that if something happens that I can't do any more work on it, there is plenty on paper to share on Sunday morning.  

I did make a quick to Kroger after I voted.  I needed a couple of things for a recipe and then shopped sales for this week.  I actually bought some non perishable items that I will use in holiday baking…items that were on sale this week.  So some Thanksgiving and Christmas food items have been bought and are ready when the time comes!  

I was getting ready to put away a recipe book and I was turning the pages in the notebook and saw a recipe that made me hungry for it.  It is my gingerbread recipe.  I guess it is Fall…gingerbread just goes with Fall!  That was one of the recipes that I needed an ingredient.  I "think" I will make it tomorrow.  Since my Sunday School lesson is about ready, that frees up my day tomorrow…time for some cooking and maybe do a little sewing on the Christmas ornaments, 

I finished listening to another book today.  I think I will stitch and watch a FlossTube or two or…this evening before I head upstairs.

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! 

A Little Bit of Everything

Today has been one of those days when I have worked some of several things around the house.  Did some cleaning.  I bought a long-handled scrubber for the bathtub/shower.  I got it put together and decided to see how it works…hoping that it will help me since I can't very easily get down on my knees anymore to scrub.  I think that it will am going to like it…I think it did a pretty good job on my shower/tub.  I will do the guest bathroom when I have my next spurt of energy!!! I will say that since the temperatures have cooled down, I do feel like I have more energy.  I had one last load of wash to do so did that this afternoon…I still have to take them upstairs…they are either on hangers or folded ready to be brought upstairs.  My door did get some more work done on it today…an attempted fix to get the door hanging correctly in the frame…at the moment the deadbolt opening on the frame doesn't line up if the metal is around the opening.  He thinks he has figured out a fix, easier than his original plan.  He took it off the hinges and painted the hinge edge of the door and also did some touch up on the door.  He plans to paint the panels on either side of the door tomorrow afternoon.

I have done a little more church library work here at home today.  I have gotten underway with the Sunday School lesson…have it outlined and have started plugging in things in the outline.  I hope to be able to draw it to a close tomorrow and, as I say, put it to bed before I go to bed.  Which means that I hope to have it printed out. The kitchen got a little attention paid to it…dishes put away, counters wiped off and the floor dust mopped…just usual routine stuff.  

At this point in the day, I am ready to stitch and listen to a book.  Listening to books is helping me catch up with my lagging goal of a book a week…that would mean 52 by the end of the year…so far I have read or listened to 31 books this year…so I doubt that I will make it to 52 since the weeks left in 2026 are some of the busiest ones of the year!  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!