Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Day Three Hundred Thirteen 2011

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"There is music in the meadows, in the air --
Autumn is here;
Skies are gray, but hearts are mellow,
Leaves are crimson, brown, and yellow;
Pines are soughing, birches stir,
And the Gipsy trail is fresh beneath the fir.

There is rhythm in the woods, and in the fields,
Nature yields:
And the harvest voices crying,
Blend with Autumn zephyrs sighing;
Tone and color, frost and fire,
Wings the nocturne Nature plays upon her lyre."
- William Stanley Braithwaite, Lyric of Autumn

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Day Three Hundred Twelve 2011

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You never know when the city leaf sucker is going to come along and make this big pile of leaves disappear, so it’s best to go ahead and jump in while the jumping is here and now. Carpe diem! Seize the leaf pile! Grandson Elijah did just that….while mom Holly and sister Shelby wait patiently for him to get it out of his system so they can all go home. 

"Yellow mellow, ripened days... Beauteous, golden Autumn days."

Author: Will Carleton

Monday, November 7, 2011

Day Three Hundred Eleven 2011

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Busy November Monday. My sister Ann and I took our 90 year old mom to the dentist (she’s in for some oral surgery in her near future), then off to Ocha (our favorite Thai deli) with hubby Neil, sister Ann, and daughters Kelly and Holly for a yummy rice and spicy chicken lunch, then off to Starbucks with Kelly around two for a salted caramel mocha (decaf!) and then home to continue laundry day and greet the grand peeps and niece peep as they came in after school. Kelly headed back home around four as did daughter Holly and grand peeps. House too quiet, all of a sudden. Finally made my wall calendar for November and continued with the laundry until hubby Neil came in from work around five thirty (dark already—he hates that), and off to Subway for a low cal supper and back home again to put laundry away and sit down here with this computer on my lap and realize this is the only picture I managed to take today (other than one of Kelly’s Starbuck’s tumbler full of iced mocha). This picture kind of captures the beautiful, perfect temperature, blue sky, puffy cloud, November day that it was. I thought I’d fill in the blanks of all the stuff the picture didn’t capture, in case you were wondering.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Day Three Hundred Ten 2011

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Some very sweet ladies at our church congregation hosted a baby shower for daughter Kelly this afternoon in our fellowship center. Baby Knox received so many cute and useful things—from a baby camo outfit to embroidered/monogrammed gowns, hats and blankets. And diapers, of course. All very much needed and appreciated by the mom-to-be. Thanks to Angela, Laura, Whitney and Ashley who orchestrated everything so beautifully and to all those ladies who dropped by to leave a gift and enjoy one of those yummy cupcakes and a cup of fruit tea.

Saturday, November 5, 2011