Hello my dear friends …. I am hoping and praying for all in and around Hurricane Florence and her rain and winds. Meanwhile, the Captain and I have been entertaining family and friends who left the Midwest to come to visit. We love having company and we try to show our guests around our community…
Friends, I have readers that say to me, I don’t want my home to look like Macy’s Display Windows, I just want to add a little Fall/Autumn to my decor. This is easy to do and most likely you have all the pieces to do just that without going overboard, as they say. For example…
Yes, it is Link Party #145….and as I sit on the Lanai enjoying the waning afternoon as it slides into evening, I am reflecting on the day’s happenings. I know there are floods and hurricanes and all kinds of happenings and I pray for each and every one who is going through a crisis of…
Reading Raccoons, you say. Really? Yes, really. Another Fall Tablescape and I have to admit …I adore this one because of the reading raccoons. You might say, where are the reading raccoons? Bear with me and they will pop up. I LOVE raccoons. Years ago, when I was a little girl, we had a baby…
Hello comfort food! Hello Pot Roast… Hello Oatmeal Raisin Cookies! You haven’t been around for a while, but it is time to dust off the crock pot and haul out the cookie sheets because Fall and Autumn means comfort food. If you haven’t made a pot roast in a while, may I suggest an old…
Today’s Woodland tablescape is celebrating the Crispness of Autumn as the Simmering Summer Slithers away. Here in Florida, we notice our streets of traffic begin to get a little busier, and we know that our nice long leisurely lunches at waterside cafe’s will soon be replaced with long lines of Sno-birds swarming like flies over…
Dear Apple Pie, I have not forgotten you even though it has been a long time since I have picked fresh apples from orchard trees. Sigh! I liked riding back to the apple farm stand with apples of every variety in my tote bags and drinking apple cider, with the Captain while munching on…
I’ve resisted, truly I have. I’ve resisted, truly I have…I was not going to start my Fall decorating before Labor Day,… I confess that I it is still Summer, albeit late Summer, here in SW Florida. Summer like in drinking cold glasses of lemonade and frosty glasses of sweet tea with a sprig of home…
Hola! Sing along with me. It’s good to touch the green, green chiles of home Yes, they’ll all come to meet me, arms reaching, smiling sweetly It’s good to touch the green, green chiles of home. OK…I did stretch the lyrics of that old country song, “the green, green grass of home” a bit, but…