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Lunch Date With My Girlfriend
I’m having quite a busy week getting ready for our trip. However, today my friend Evelyn and I went to a nice little restaurant for lunch. The restaurant is an old home converted into a restaurant and a gift shop fills the upstairs portion. The inside is so cozy, warm and so inviting. Each table is an old table from the 50’s era and the décor inside suggests that era too. So from the old wood floors and beautiful area rugs to the decor, it’s the perfect place to visit with friends.
The front of the restaurant has little benches lined in front of the parking with boots on each one. It sets the mood for a nice visit once inside.
This is truly a lovely atmosphere
And my autumn bisque soup in a bread bowl was positively delicious.
Lucky for us we went for a very early lunch as I was able to take the pics before we ordered. It’s a good thing because it was packed with people lining the front entry when we left.
Leisure Day
Today was a leisure day where I didn’t have to be anywhere at any certain time. Hubby left bright and early on his trip to
I started off by crawling back in bed as Hubby left before daylight and got a few more z’s before starting the day. I went down to breakfast around 10 and met my buddy Evelyn down there. We had a nice little visit until sometime around 11:30 or so and then I was off doing my thing. I went to the mall and splurged on a few clothes and enjoyed browsing through all the wonderful holiday displays.
Then it was time for a little drive where I ended up taking a few more pictures. It was truly a peaceful day filled with lots of blessings.
I thought all the leaves would be gone by now but the beauty hangs on a bit longer.
I also took time along the way for some pretty flowers
One Moment In Time
I’m still clearing my throat a smidge and the Kleenex box is not being reached for as often today so I’m hoping the rest of this stuff clears out soon.
It’s a bit gloomy and the rain has come and gone off and on today so I’ve been getting nice and cozy and doing a little bit of reading and scrapping. I dredged up an old picture of friends at a Thanksgiving banquet and made a little page of us. We girls had on about every color in the crayola box so I antiqued our picture for scrapbooking purposes.
One moment in time friends stopped what they were doing for this picture. And that moment was captured many years ago. I just wish all my buddies were in this picture. Happy times indeed and this brings back so many fond memories of days gone by. I’m so thankful for my life and the wealth of all my yesterdays memories have surely added so many treasures for my tomorrows.
Monday’s Blessings
I still have symptoms of the nasty bug and woke yesterday unable to breathe out of my nose. Wasn’t feeling all the greatest so I went back for a mid morning nap. I woke just before noon feeling in the mood for a drive so that’s just what I did.
I made a little lunch for myself before my trip, cleaned up and away I went early afternoon. I enjoyed the beautiful blue skies and the cool fresh air and the sights I saw almost melted my sickness away.
Here are some pictures taken from my afternoon drive.
Couldn’t Resist This Barn
I pulled my truck over and got out to enjoy both the pond and the babbling brook. What great alone time I spent at both of these places. I love the reflection of the bench in the pond and the views were amazing from my point of view.
I also captured this pond but the sun was not in the right spot for me to get a clear picture.
The leaves continue to fall fabricating a beautiful colorful quilt above the earth.
I believe these are going to be the last of the fall pictures this year.
Hubby called on his way home from work last night saying that Donnell and Michelle just called to see if we would like to join them for dinner. Hubby and I both were thrilled and me especially as I was just telling Hubby over the weekend how I would like to go there next weekend. While we were on our way over to the restaurant, Donnell called to say that the restaurant was closed on Monday evenings. So we met at TGIF instead and enjoyed a great meal and conversation with our buddies. Now we get to have another dinner date with them this weekend because we’re dying to go back to the Asian restaurant.
Home Sweet Home ~ There’s No Place Like Home
Home is where the heart is, The soul’s bright guiding star. Home is where real love is, Where our own dear ones are. Home means someone waiting To give a welcome smile. Home means peace and joy and rest And everything worthwhile. –Author Unknown
Another picture I took over the weekend and thought it went with my story.
We’re coming to the realization that humans need a place to call home and with that, we have just decided to take a much needed trip back to home. We’ve been gone exactly 9 weeks as of right now and there will be nothing like walking through that door! As Hubby and I were talking about this over the weekend I couldn’t help a couple ‘happy tears’ that trickled down my cheeks. One of these days our new home sweet home will be up here and we both know that day will come in the right time.
Bobby finalized our tickets and we leave here the 10th of November and fly to
We’re thankful for this two week window of time in Hubby’s schedule as he’s going to be in
We are two very ‘happy campers’ in the meantime and Hubby continues to thank me for following him to the ends of the earth. There’s no other place I’d rather be than to be with him and where he is is where my heart is and where my heart is, that’s home.
A Visit With Great Grandpa
This picture is of my brothers and me visiting my Great Grandpa. I’ll never forget our little visit with him that day. I still remember to this day his daughter (my Great Aunt) commenting how my little brother was “the baby”. I still remember in his own little sweet way not enjoying the fact that he had just been called “the baby”. It was at that very moment that I was so thrilled and relieved that I wasn’t “the baby”. How crazy the silly details I remember.
A Damp Autumn Day
We started out on this cool damp rainy day. But to tell the truth, there was still so much beauty to behold no matter the cloudy conditions. Here are a few pages of our day that I put together and I hope you enjoy.
I’ve always been a lover of barns so I captured this one as it spoke to me.
These autumn days are still producing beauty in spite of the weather.
This is a picture I took of the leaves through the trees. We stopped to look at this piece of land and I truly found beauty.
Feelin’ Punk
I’m feeling a little worse for wear and tear and stayed in bed until just before noon. My throat is a mess right now and I’m feeling punk as my pop would say. I went for a nice bowl of vegetable soup and water first thing and that seemed to taste pretty good. But I think I’ll be dragging for a little while. Fortunately Hubby is feeling a little better but not 100% yet. We’re both looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow with no alarm waking us before the crack of dawn.
This picture has nothing to do with this post but I just finished putting it together so I thought I’d share. This is a picture of me and my cousins in 1969. I’m the baby girl on the far left with the hair sticking up.
More Scraping Fun
I’m ever so thankful for my scrapbook program as it’s given me something to do to keep active and I’m really enjoying what few scans I do have. I have a lot more scanning to do when I get back to mom’s house! I’ve been working on a couple more scraps this afternoon and this evening and thought I’d share what I’ve been up to.
Pop Taking Us To Bed…
My Tom-Boy Days
That picture was taken the year I was in the 7th grade living on a hundred acre farm. I did everything with my brothers that year from digging fresh worms in the backyard and fishing in 4 ponds on the property and if we brought home enough fish, the fish fry was on for the night, helped care for 22,000 – that’s twenty two thousand chickens – we raised them for layers and when they got big enough to lay eggs we would gather eggs and clean eggs every day after school, there were only 75 roosters in the whole batch and we got to keep them. We moved those roosters to a little chicken coop behind the house and kept them separated from the hens. When the roosters got big enough for some really good eatin’, my brothers and I helped with the cleaning of them including plucking feathers, and helped to make them freezer ready… I played in so many barns on the property and in and out of hay lofts was a ton of fun, worked in a very large garden, helped mom can fresh veggies from the garden, made fig preserves from our huge tree in the yard and on and on…
Hump Day News
Hubby was hit with the ole sore throat and cold Monday and is feeling worse by the minute it seems. Last night he crashed around 7:30 in hopes to get some sort of relief. As he lay there next to me I noticed his face looked a bit flush and when I felt him, there was no doubt he was burning up with fever.
Back to work again like a trooper today, but I just got a call from him saying that he may be home this afternoon. I feel so bad when he’s this miserable and I hope he’s able to get some rest and knock this yucky stuff soon.
It’s been a morning of phone calls and getting more stuff taken care of. I actually spoke with another realtor today (realtor #10 to be exact) and she sounds like she’s a real go get ‘er. She’s checking on a 10 acre plot of land for us and she’s also offered to check out the entire MLS for listings other than the ones she has. Realtor #8 (the one I really liked and thought for sure she was the one) dropped off the face of the earth and I have not heard from her since October 4th. Realtor #9 was the one I called on the land we looked at this past weekend. The land was advertised with a picture of the lake but when I spoke with the realtor, we found out that the land was not on the lake but had the lake access, no deal for us. So when I tried to find out about more land in the area, the realtor asked me if there was anything else I wanted to see. She didn’t offer check out other MLS listings or anything. We have never had this problem but perhaps some of these realtors would rather sell only what they have listed so that they don’t have to share the profit of a sale or perhaps they would prefer to sell a home vs land as they don’t get as much profit from selling land. I don’t know, this is just a mystery but I’ll continue to call as many realtors as it takes to get the job done.
Ac or Heat
In the course of 24 hours, I’ve been switching from ac to heat on a perpetual basis. Yesterday I woke feeling just a bit nippy so on went the heat. Just 30 min. later I was hot, extremely HOT. So, off went the heat and on went the ac. Then all yesterday afternoon I couldn’t get my feet warm, so on went the heat again! My feet finally warmed and I was completely comfortable until I started in on some ironing. I got so HOT that my hair went up off my shoulders and I like to believe I was going to roast; it had to be all that steam from the iron! So I turned on the fan as fast as I could possibly get those blades to turn afraid that if I turned on the ac that I would get cold feet again. Poor Hubby had no Idea what temperature to expect in here and he was a genuine sport! Fortunately I was completely comfortable by early evening.
I’ve been out and about this morning and early afternoon running errands, did some shopping at the mall and ran over to my favorite grocery store. And By the time I got all my loot carried in, I was on the warm side so I revisited the ac. Now I’m cold and have no idea what to do, there has to be a happy medium and I’m desperately trying to find it! On the bright side, at least I’m not sweltering nor are my feet cold.
Beautiful Autumn Day
We have just spent a beautiful day together! Ah, this land is truly beautiful, offering such quiet, peaceful, and breathtaking landscape! Now, when we were here in April on Hubby’s job interview, there was not even a sign of spring in site, the branches on the trees were still bare but this place was still so beautiful to me. Now having spent the end of summer and fall peaking I’ll have to confirm that we are still in paradise! I keep saying that I have never lived in a place as beautiful as this.
We spent quite a bit of time running errands checking into a PO Box, running to the bank to open an account (we didn’t open it yet), visited The Cider Mill and drove the country side to look at some lake front property.
On the way I couldn’t help but snap pictures of this land which I have yet to do. So below here are pictures taken of our lovely day.
A visit to the Cider Mill.
Pumpkins, Oh The Pumpkins
A beautiful autumn day ~ Picture taken on the way to the lake front property
Another view on the way to the lake
Another Beautiful View
Riding A Bike For The First Time
We’ve got a busy weekend planned so I thought I’d post a little picture that I worked on in my Scrapbook Factory. This is a picture of me on the day I learned to ride a bike at my Grandma and Grandpa’s house. I still remember that day so vividly; I still remember my little hat and that dress. I feel as though I can go right back there to where I was on that bike that day and it does not seem that long ago. My how the years go by.
Breakfast
It’s so good to be surrounded by friends no matter where I go. This morning Evelyn and I made it down to breakfast at the exact same time and we sat enjoying the early morning hours in our own little space. People came and went but we sat until after everyone had left having such a pleasant visit.
Breakfast Line Includes: eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, biscuits, sausage gravy, waffles, French toast, pancakes, cereal, oatmeal with nuts raisins and brown sugar on the side, muffins, bread, bagels, donuts, fresh fruit, yogurt, boxes of skim, 1%, whole and chocolate milk, apple and orange juice, and packaged pop tarts, granola bars, and pastries to go.
Some of the tables with a fireplace in the background
Each table is adorned with a pumpkin that’s filled with autumn leaves. It truly is a wonderful atmosphere.