Today was to have been a day of catch up. Admittedly "the boys" did the best they could helping wipe the kitchen and pantry floors clean before they left. One forgets how much fun it is to slide around in your stocking feet. I'm grateful to them (even if their parents aren't) for taking home all the dirt their socks and pants picked up from the floor.
Because it was a rainy drizzly day typical of November, it seemed like the perfect time to make the arrangements for Thanksgiving. I had taken advantage this last week when the weather was beautiful to pick wild rose hips along the field and to "shuck" husks off silver dollar seed pods. (If you see silver dollars at the farmer's market and you think they're high priced, take my word for it, they are NOT. It takes a looooooong time to uncover those beautiful pods.) Wild rose hips and silver dollars make beautiful arrangments that work for Thanksgiving, Christmas, late winter, you name it and stay looking beautiful until one day you realize they're too dusty for words. By that time the spring bulbs are blooming and you're ready to throw them in the compost pile anyway. Our cat, like any cat, really doesn't care so long as there's a good basket available for him to use.
Sooooooo, where are all those arrangements? Well, I have to be honest, the one you see next to the pig is all I did for the day. Lots of excuses... guests for lunch and they brought a nice bottle of wine and lots of pictures and stories of Italy to enjoy and an invitation out for dinner and... well there's always the next 10 days to catch up!
Today was to have been a day of catch up. Admittedly "the boys" did the best they could helping wipe the kitchen and pantry floors clean before they left. One forgets how much fun it is to slide around in your stocking feet. I'm grateful to them (even if their parents aren't) for taking home all the dirt their socks and pants picked up from the floor.
Because it was a rainy drizzly day typical of November, it seemed like the perfect time to make the arrangements for Thanksgiving. I had taken advantage this last week when the weather was beautiful to pick wild rose hips along the field and to "shuck" husks off silver dollar seed pods. (If you see silver dollars at the farmer's market and you think they're high priced, take my word for it, they are NOT. It takes a looooooong time to uncover those beautiful pods.) Wild rose hips and silver dollars make beautiful arrangments that work for Thanksgiving, Christmas, late winter, you name it and stay looking beautiful until one day you realize they're too dusty for words. By that time the spring bulbs are blooming and you're ready to throw them in the compost pile anyway. Our cat, like any cat, really doesn't care so long as there's a good basket available for him to use.
Sooooooo, where are all those arrangements? Well, I have to be honest, the one you see next to the pig is all I did for the day. Lots of excuses... guests for lunch and they brought a nice bottle of wine and lots of pictures and stories of Italy to enjoy and an invitation out for dinner and... well there's always the next 10 days to catch up!
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