Five for Fall!

Happy Fall Y'all! 

Yesterday (Thursday) was the first day of Autumn, and if you know me, you know Fall is my THIRD favorite season. 

Oh sure, I enjoy all of the festivals,

and colors,

and smells,

and such.

I'm just a spring/summer girl is all.  And when you only have four seasons, and you love two, and strongly dislike one, well that only leaves one place...Third.

I just don't love fall like everyone else does. 

But on Thursday, I donned my fall colors and headed off to crochet.  And forgot to take pictures.  Laaaaawww why can't I remember to take pictures.

Anyway, here are five facts about Fall from my perspective.

ONE

Spiders love Fall.

This one lives in the mailbox, so I think I will call him Bill.  Because that's all I ever get in the mail.

TWO

Odd things appear that you don't see all summer.  I almost stepped on this the other day.  I hear it can cause a poison ivy type rash in some people if they touch it.   I just wanted to know if it means good winter or bad winter.   I've never seen a white one before.

THREE

 In celebration of fall,  I took all of my coupons to Kohl's and shopped their clearance racks for every summer top I could find....that I liked...that fit well.  No capsule wardrobe for me.  I'm going to Mexico next summer and I need summer tops.  And, bonus, I bought a cute Fall sweatshirt too.  Only $88.00 for nine summer tops and a sweatshirt.

FOUR

There is more time for crafty stuff in the Fall.

  Sort of.   OK, not really.  There is more time for crafts in the winter, but I wanted to show you what I'm up to. 

I am actually just trying to frame pictures and get them put on the walls. 

I still don't have anything on the walls at our new house.  So I downloaded the Walgreens app and sent them some photos and they turned out quite well.  I was quite proud of myself for actually ordering online.

FIVE

 I'm still working on my blanket.  Crochet blankets are good projects to start in the Fall.  They should be just the right size to keep you warm for winter, when you work on them in front of the fire sipping hot chocolate.

That's all for Fall Y'all.

Right now I'm drinking my summer wine, and reading my summer library book, that I'm paying fines on because it was due two days ago, and I am not finished with it. 
I'm too close to the end to return it right now. 
So I'm celebrating summer a little bit longer in my own little corner of the world.
My world, my season! 
Besides, we had to turn the air conditioning back on today.

Tomorrow, Horton's Fall Open House.

Be there. 

Celebrate Fall!

Cindy Bee

PS.  I'm joining Amy's Five on Friday party, and I gotta say I am really enjoying it.  Thank you Amy for taking time to do this for us.  Click on Five on Friday and see what other's are up to.

Grandpa's spider plant!

 This picture popped up on my facebook feed this morning as a memory of last year.  Which reminded me of one of the many things from last summer that I never posted about.

So, this is our parents with their bestest of friends ever.  They have been friends since they were kids.  Especially Dad and Don. I think they grew up together.  Last summer they went on a bus trip, and the bus picked them up in Logansport.   My parents asked me to drop them off so that they wouldn't have a car over there all week long.  Sure... I could use one more thing to do (wink)!  And they had to be there at some unreasonable morning hour like 6:00 am which means I had to leave at 5:00 am.

 This photo was taken when I picked them up.  On FB I posted, "picking the kids up from summer camp!"

But back to dropping them off. 

After dropping them off, I went to cousin Vickie's house to drop something off...I think maybe donuts from Dan's or something like that.  The plan was to just hang them on the door and head to cousin Gloria's house, but no can do!  Harley, their dog, went nuts!  Not to mention the motion light that went off and lit up their entire back yard!  Lights started coming on in their house, so I hung out until someone came to the door.

So I talked Vickie into going with me to cousin Gloria's house!  You can see how dark it is outside.  It was early...

I called Gloria and acted like I was just chitty chatting, but did not tell her we were on our way over!  When we got there, I told her to go look in her driveway, that I had a surprise for her.

Yep, Dan's donuts. (it's a Kokomo thing)

We sat and chatted for at least an hour, maybe two!

ACK!!!!No make up!  It was early!!!

 And as we were leaving her house that day, I saw a spider plant on her porch.  I asked her about it.  The reason I asked was because I remembered her having a spider plant that she got from our Grandpa's bedroom.  He passed in 1992 or 1993?  (Gloria will know!)  Anyway, ages ago she had given me a start of this spider plant, that was in his bedroom, and I don't even remember what happened to it.  But, I asked her for another start. 

This would have been my Mom's Dad.  And he was all of our Grandpa.

 I came home and potted up the starts.  All but one are doing quite well.

 This one is even quite fertile, as it has baby starts! 

(I'm going to name it "Hardy" - teehee)

 This one, not doing so well but hanging in there!

 I have put them in the windowsill in our living/dining room.  I plan on decorating the house with heirlooms, plants, and family/travel pictures.

So that's the spider plant story that I promised a blog post about when I talked about them here!
Do you have any special plant stories?

Cindy Bee

Five on Friday- Transitions, Crochet and FEET!

1. TIPTON PORK FESTIVAL

 Last weekend we went to the Tipton County Pork Festival.  They always have good bands at this festival.  Carl Storie was there and I used to love listening to him when it was Carl Storie and the Faith Band.   He was actually the warm up band for another band that played Eric Clapton tunes.  I wasn't a big Eric Clapton fan. Don't hate.

(note: this picture makes it look like no one was in the audience.  Not true.  We were sitting on a side that didn't have a lot of people, but there were a lot more people on the right/front side of the stage.  We found out why when we got up to use the restroom.  The sound was way better on that side than where we were sitting!)

2. FEET 

My Shug had foot surgery on Tuesday and peeps he is having a rough time.  He never takes pain meds, but with this surgery, he's taking them.  No weight on his right foot for six weeks, and a plaster cast for six weeks as well.   At least if he is going to lay around, he can still do it in the sun, as long as it's warm out.

 

In the meantime I'm stuck with plantar fasciitis again!  This time it's in the left foot.  I had it about three years ago in the right.   So between the two of us, we have two good feet!

We both go back to the Orthopedic Surgeon on Tuesday morning and if my foot isn't better, I'm going to grab on to those arms on the chair, squeeze really tight, tell him to give me the shot, the close my eyes and hold my breath.  Because that's just what I do when I get a shot in the foot!

3.  CROCHET GROUP

First of all, look what "K" and Debbie brought for my Shug.  Aren't they sweet.

He is set up for junk food!

Since I have not wanted to leave him for very long, I had crochet group at my house on Thursday.

We've all got blankets going right now.  But for some reason these two 'blanket crocheters' felt like they should steal the show!  These two are kits from Attic 24 (see her blog in my side bar.  This yarn is great, and it's....oooohhh what's the word.......not natural fibers......geeesh...this getting older thing...Acrylic...that's the word!  But it's NOT your rough and scratchy acrylic.  It's soft and washable.)

So us other two blanket crocheters decided to throw in our blankets and re-take the pic! 

"LAW" The behind-the-scenes fussing going on over these blanket pics!

Topics of conversation included...

how much these blankets would go for at Goodwill in 20 years...

what are we going to do about the spider on the wall behind Debbie...

is the 'heart healthy' zucchini bread "K" made, really heart healthy...

and should we start a Yarndale in our town...

(I think we should)

Dixie got a little nervous during the blanket photo shoot and came to Mommy for safety! 

Or maybe he just wanted his picture taken.

 4.  DISHCLOTHS

I made this colorful cotton dishcloth while Shug was having surgery.  I told my Mom that dishcloths do not have to be perfect, we wash dishes with them.  They are great practice for crochet and knitting.  I'm wondering if a blanket out of this pattern might be in order...someday.

Hmmm...I wonder what someone would pay for it...at Goodwill...someday.

5. TRANSITIONS

This is a bit of a serious topic for 5 on Friday so I won't go through it in too much detail.

 I feel like I'm going through a transition period.  Last week I told you I'm not sure about beekeeping next year.  I probably won't be sure about it until winter is over, and I find out if my hives survived. 

And to keep this short...I've been trying to figure out what my passions are.....

This is not a depression it's a transition.  There's a difference, and I believe we all have them, so no worries.

 (I wish I could lighten the above picture up, but I can't figure editing out on my new computer yet.  There is a pond in that picture.)

 I know I like yarn crafts and sewing.  And I like nature.   I enjoy having people over, and planning for events (or at least I used to before I had to do it all online)

 but I don't get excited anymore. 

You know what I mean?
Like when you're a kid and you see the roller coaster at Kings Island.
Or the anticipation of a vacation you are planning. 
Or maybe saving for something and finally ordering it....
Yes, you know what I mean.
I don't get excited about doing things, even the things I enjoy.

 Do you?


I'm joining Amy at Love Made my Home and participating in Five on Friday.  Click on Five on Friday and pop over to see what others are up to.

Click on it I tell ya!

Cindy Bee