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Relaxing Days .... and more varmints!

I was able to spend all day Saturday with my eldest daughter. We started out going to Grove city Mall, where she helped me pick out a nice jacket that could be worn with blue jeans or a pair of dress slacks. It is a lightweight jacket of beautiful fall colors; I also purchased a lightweight lime green sweater. I usually buy clothes on the cheap side, (WM, KM, or the thrift store) however, I have a couple art galleries I will be visiting and so needed something a little more dressy than my usual jeans and sweats.

After that we made a stop at a yarn shop in down-town Grove city, which has alot of "eye-candy" for knitters. I did manage to walk out of there with only a couple purchases ( I did GOOD .... REALLY!!) Daughter then treated me to dinner at an Italian resteraunt. We both had a pasta meal with salad. It was soooo good! On the drive home we enjoyed the beginning of the turning of the leaves. The sun filtering through a variety of cloud shapes and hitting on the leaves had a very early autumn feel to it. Magical almost..... When we arrived back at Tina's home I took these pictures of her pretty mums.

I just love her whole country front porch, don't you??

Tomorrow I take my .22 pistol over to my son. He is going to clean it up real good for meso I can trade it in on something more usable. I just could never manage a pistol with such a long barrel. Oh yes.... did I mention the ground-hogs are back???

This......

..... came in the mail for me today!

my son had some set-backs so while I am waiting around

( no I will NOT leave till I know he is stable)

I will at least be reading up to prepare myself for the RV'ing adventure!

Oh, and I passed a cute little RV setting about 2 miles from my son's home the other day. I didn't have my camera with me so I will have to go back and take a picture of it to sharewith you all.

That's it for now. Going to make a cup of tea and go read my new book!

Happenings in the life of a painter

This ..... is a true story.

http://atsunnysplace.blogspot.com/2012/09/clown-box.html

Enjoy!

Solar Lights

Well, I made it through my late husband's birthday  (Sept 7th) okay. I wasn't sure how that would go. Also my son got home okay from the hospital yesterday and I spent this afternoon and evening visiting with Him and his family. 

On solar lights... do any of you carry those solar yard lights with you to put at the edges of your awning or camp space? I am putting in an order for a couple post lights at home and got to thinking about that. I have run across some at Amazon.com that were really reasonable and if I order over $25, then its free shipping. I thought it might be a nice investment. What do you all think?

Thanks for stopping by

Stuff from my Garden ......... and Memories

I had fun pulling produce from my garden today. Besides what is pictured here I also pulled a dozen onions and a few shallots which are laid out to dry. I had planned on having these last 2 handfuls of green beans for supper tonight but ended up going to my daughter's home to knit with her group for a while, and ate there instead.

I have 4 trays of tomatoes, 1 tray of mixed peppers, 2 trays of shredded zuchini, and a tray of mixed veggies in the dehydrator. The mixed veggies were in the freezer, but I like to fill ALL the trays so as not to waste any space or energy when running it. Besides I can take them with me and use in a soup pot.

Since my Marigolds were spilling out of their spaces in the garden beds, I decided I may as well bring some inside for some pretty fall color. That Butternut squash is the same one as pictured above. There are several more out there, beets and carrots coming on, and my celery is soon to be picked as well.

Last box (and they were BIG boxes) of sewing stuff is emptied out so now I have my dining area back. One of my daughters will be coming over and we will go through some quilting material so she can make baby Maddie a little quilt. I am still trying to cut back to minimum or a little over.

Re-homing stuff right and left.

Two days left..... just 2 more days and my son will be back at his home just a few short miles from me. I am so glad for his whole family. It has been a long hard struggle, and will still be, but at least they will be together. The rest of us will be going over and pitching in to get the rest of his firewood cut, split, and stacked on their porch for winter.
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I can still stack wood, yes I can

 and if I do say so myself, I am pretty good at it.

and this is the stove that burned the wood that I used to stack

and now.... I am missing 'him', but in a good sort of way. Remembering with fondness all the good times we had and how blessed I was to have him for as long as I did.

"Gathering Firewood"

Kentucky Home 2010

My strong oak, my Love .......still.

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Well, back to the present.  Lets see, tomorrow I might be doing up some corn, if it's ready. Or I may be painting... or loading up my RV. Izzy goes to the groomer next Wed and I plan on heading out within 2 weeks max!

It's Raining, It's Pouring....

Some leaves are falling....

Some are just starting to change...

My grass needs mowed but its wet out there. Here are some of the last blooms of the season.

So I am doing inside chores today.

I cleaned the beta's bowls. I know they are happier.

Oh, yes, I figured if Tex-cyn could take her dogs with her in her RV, (of course I'll take little Izzy) ,

I could also take my bettas :) If I could find a way, I'd take chickens for fresh eggs, but I don't think you can take them across state lines without alot of fuss.

Oh yeh, my new dehydrator arrived and my food processor. Now I won't take these in the RV, but I will dehydrate food to take with me. Better that weighty home-canning jars. so tomorrow I will be heading over to the farm amish farm market to pick up some corn and their later green beans, and see if they have any cukes left. I have more squash to do and tomatoes. Also want to try bananas and apples, Yumm!

My son goes home from the hospital this coming Saturday, so I'll be hanging around a couple weeks to see if I am needed to help in any way before I get going. I don't know if I'll make it to Maine to see the leaves in good fall color or not, but that's my plan. Till next time....