October?
Impossible!!!
Where has this year gone?
Where have I been you may ask...not far!
Travel far has not been possible due to Bob being tethered to the hospital and cancer center...just a 15 minute drive from home. Our car hardly needs a driver, it knows the way there unaided!!!!
Our only travel has been within North Carolina to visit longtime friends, or other medical facilities. Our hotel stays have been to use up free nights earned before they expire, usually within 25 miles of home as that's where those friends live, and some nights we've checked in downtown where we enjoy an overnight 'staycation' with a nice restaurant meal and a hotel breakfast...a welcome change from cooking for me!
Yes, we certainly do miss 'happy travels' to lovely places, and especially
miss crossing the pond to my home and family in England and France.
I'm now a Great Aunt as my niece in France recently had a beautiful
baby girl - hoping we'll be able to go meet her some day soon.
The arrival of Autumn is probably my favorite time of year. Here in our area many start decorating very early for Halloween. My outdoor decor is now minimal, a knobbly pumpkin on the steps, yellow mums to replace Boston ferns in my porch hanging baskets, an Autumnal flag, and lots of lanterns. No major assembly makes decorating much easier!
As our neighborhood changes with smaller homes being sold and multi-million dollar mansions (the latest build has a sale price of $6,250,000!) replacing them in this now 'hot' area of the city, the Halloween decor changes too. Perhaps you've seen them...........gigantic, larger than life terrifying skeletons clambering out of shrubs or sitting on the porch, spiders in webs stretched across an entire lawn area, huge ghosts flying through the trees. All very costly. I want to know where the heck will they store those 15 foot tall skeletons the remainder of the year? Perhaps in one of the three car garages which come with those big homes.
A glimpse of my indoor decor. The still much loved older paper pumpkins,
a few new fresh pumpkins from the farm, and Diana the Huntress now
sports a witch hat. Pardon me Diana!
Wishing you a happy Autumn season.
I''ll try to get back here again soon.
Mary
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Lovely to see you here today, Mary, and hoping all is well. We dont really have pumpkins here, but our local small farm shop has produced some this year, and people are buying them for decoration.
ReplyDeleteI’m so happy to have stumbled onto your site after missing your posts for far too long! So happy you’re back, sweet friend🥰. Hugs to you and Bob as always 🙏💕
ReplyDeleteJeannette
You’re back !! 🥰💕
ReplyDeleteGoing to France to kiss the new baby girl will be the greatest joy of them all.
ReplyDeleteIt is very good to read from you again, Mary! It sounds like you and Bob, despite all the not-so-good medical stuff going on, are enjoying life as much as you can, and I applaud you for that.
ReplyDeleteDiana makes a very elegant witch!
Dear Mary,
ReplyDeleteHow lovely to see a post from you this morning. I read almost all of your IG posts, but this is so much more satisfying, I find. You and Bob are often in my prayers as you navigate these difficult waters.
Your Autumn decor is lovely and simple. I'm not a fan of those huge skeletons and cobwebs draped all over. I've heard the web stuff is harmful to birds, as well.
Autumn is settling in here, as well. Yesterday was rainy and dark, today there is blue sky and sunshine, but it's definitely chilly. No frost yet. There are still dahlias and cosmos blooming, and roses.
Hugs to you and Bob, with love from both of us.
So nice to see your post, Mary. I have thought about you and Bob often and hope that his treatments are going well.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed seeing your autumn touches. The witch's hat suits Diana. Happy October!
I love seeing your autumn decor Mary! Yeah, October ALREADY....omg...time flies! ♥
ReplyDeleteDarling Mary and Bob,
ReplyDeleteWe have arrived here after far far too long and are sad to read of Bob's ongoing health issues. As we well know, such things do have an enormous impact on life and are so very worrying. You are both in our thoughts and prayers and we trust that you will be soon wandering again on your adventures.