Hi! So here are some of the things we've been doing as of late. Toppest photo is the cat tower C made for Pumpkin. He used white elm for the wood and debarked it and sanded it down, then we took lime bath mats and tacked them on. We still have to cover the trunk of the tower with sisal rope so she can scratch. Then we made fresh yellow heirloom salsa and tomato sauce from the tomatoes we were given. The salsa was gone before we had a chance to can it. And that'll likely be the case for the tomato sauce as well. I roasted some pumpkin seeds from our carved pumpkins, E did most of the face drawing for the jack-o-lanterns and while the seeds are pretty good they could use a second roasting. Oops, next time I suppose. C made bagels and I helped out with the boiling and coating with the toppings. They taste pretty yummy. It's not nearly as hard to make bagels as I thought it would be, but it was just as with anything... Making the time for it.
Time seems to be of the essence more than anything these days. I thought perhaps things had begun to slow with Winter approaching, but such is not the case. Now to focus on creating a balance of work and energy for those very precious loved ones. I've been tapped to paint a few signs for outside of the local natural foods co-op that my husband works for. For some reason, it got put on the backburner by none other than myself so I have to rein it in. I've been on this blog with mainly my image posts reigning. But I promise I'm still here.
Halloween was celebrated on Monday by the town so the kids cavorted around long enough to get tired and pick up some treats. E had spent most of his day in class at school so it was awesome to be hanging out with their cousins and visiting the G ma's. Traipsing around the neighborhoods. Ready for a quiet day now. Autumn is so beautiful around these parts though!
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Happy Dia De Los Muertos! Love to our old ones who have gone before us. May their wisdom flow through us and may we honor them well!
Work post soon!
3 comments:
this post made me smile a lot! all the photos are lovely and the cat tower is dreamy, whatta lucky cat
glad things are going well!
Ack I deleted my comment. Anyhow Hi Callie
oh golly thanks, so good to hear from you! thank you for the cat tower and post appreciation!!!
hope all is well w/ you too! doing the best to keep up the ol' spirits. loving your photos! :D
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