Thursday, as I sat at the computer, I looked up and out the window in time to see a heron fly by. I suspect that will be my last glimpse of a heron for six months or so. I haven’t seen an egret since late in October.
The window washer came last week. We’ve hired a new company, and for just $15 more, they do both inside AND outside windows, and the chandelier. Such a deal! He even washed the screens for me! The landscape men came and put the gardens to bed for the winter. I still need to do some raking, and I need to remove the tags from the new shrubs. Dear Husband moved the container garden pots into the garage for the winter. I’m going to try to winter over three geraniums I particularly liked. We had our first snow today. I don’t think anything has accumulated.
The cookies have been baked and sent off to four college students. I started working on the cookies very early on Thursday so that they would be ready to be mailed off at mid-day. I’m not sure what I was thinking. Had I made the cookies 2″ as the recipe calls for, I would have had TWENTY DOZEN COOKIES! I tend to make them over-sized, roughly three or three and a half inches across, so I ended up with 13 dozen. One of the kids e-mailed to say the package had arrived.
I’ve swapped the wreath on the fireplace for one more seasonal. I have silk flowers ready to go for a new arrangement for Elegante Mother’s room in rusts and golds. I have a neutral ceramic container that is about 24″ tall, and I plan to create a bouquet for the front entry way of dried teasel and milkweed pod. Once I start the bouquet, I’ll know if I need to add cat tails or eucalyptus. I think I have seasonal wire-edged ribbon, but I’d better check. One more thing to add to my shopping list.
One of my nieces has been organizing my life, specifically, my closets. She has a rule. If you haven’t used it in the last year, you don’t need it. When I obsessed over a pair of gorgeous dress flats that I may not be able to wear any longer, she let me keep them. But everything else went. My clothing closet, the linen closet, the kitchen pantry, the Tupperware drawer and the mudroom pantry are all gorgeous! I was working in the kitchen, trying to take the gum from labels off canning jars. When I went looking for the Skin So Soft, it was gone. I asked her about it a day later, and she said the container “looked old.” I’ll have to get another. Goo Gone smells worse than Skin So Soft!
Elegante Mother saw her doc on Friday and was given a clean bill of health. On Saturday she was ill. I suspect that she may have picked up a bug from the temporary care-giver, whose one year old daughter was under the weather. The care-giver called this weekend to tell me that she had been called for jury duty. It’s just as well. This will give EM more time to recuperate.
Saturday, I made “Vernice Kastman Swedish Refrigerator Rolls” for the church bake sale. Don’t tell My-Sister-The-Nurse. She adores those rolls and doesn’t seem to be able to make them for herself. I was talking with one of my nieces about Thanksgiving, and mentioned those rolls. She said, “I’m 40 and I’ve only managed to snag five of them!” MSTN steals bags of them, and hides them in her bedroom. Her children know better than to ask for one.
Thanksgiving…..I think there will be about 40 people here. So, now you know what all the preparation is about! *G*
I hope you’ve all been enjoying the Fall, and are ready for the holidays. They’re almost upon us.