Autumn Decorations

Welcome! 

  Autumn will be here in a few days!  Oh, this is such a sweet time.  I wanted to share my minimal decorating with you.  I've never been very crafty or artistic in any way.  But I've learned over the years to display just a few decorations that I really love and I will feel more at home.  Warning: all of these are store bought.

 I love the squirrel salt and pepper shakers!  $1.99 at Walmart

 (Made in China)  We have grey squirrels but that's ok.

Just a few autumn colors to decorate the side porch.  In October, we will fill this space with plastic pumpkins!

A scarecrow lady seems to be a common theme in my house! I wonder why????

And that's it!  I have a pretty fall tablecloth I forgot to take a picture of to show you.  It is really not about the store bought decorations.  It is all about love and home and winter coming down the road.  My heart goes out to the people in Colorado with all the floods and destruction still going on.  Just like the people in New Jersey and New York with Sandy and the Gulf Coast with Katrina, it is about love and home and winter coming down the road. 

Thank you for visiting today!

Love,
Lottie

Putting Food By

We've been busy freezing blueberries, peaches, and okra.

  DH has been canning apples, applesauce, apple butter, and pears.  

We have been "putting food by". 

"To 'put by' is an early nineteenth century way of saying 

to "save something you don't have to use now, 

against the time when you'll need it.' 

...Putting Food By, 1975

 We will enjoy these pears on those cold days of Winter!

"Putting food by is the antidote for running scared." 

Love,

Lottie 

Pink House Dreams!

I just love pink houses!  But I don't live in one.  My blue cottage is our home and I'm happy with it.  DH calls the color gray, but its blue.  We both love our home ... and there is no way I'll ever get a pink house as long as I'm married to DH so all I can do is dream.  I don't mind. I've been married to DH for forty years this year and its like living with Cary Grant some days and Sean Connery the other days.  Not too bad!  I have a lot to be thankful for, but back to a pink house...and dreaming.  If you haven't been to OLD HOUSE DREAMS, you must visit it and "pick out" the old house of your dreams.  That is what I do when I can't sleep at night.

1900 – $99,900 ( listed on link now $85,000)  – 59 E High St, Union City, PA – MLS #24020

Kelly's blog has over 2,000 houses with links to more pictures. She has nothing to do with selling these houses nor do I.  I just wanted to share the website.

Sweet Dreams and Happy Pink Saturday!
Lottie