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Grandson Noah - King of the Hill

(Photo courtesy of Jenn at The Schires Five Blogspot)

It was a great weekend to hunker down inside and watch White Christmas! We will definitely be having one of those!!

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Time to Think and Pray

 Brenda, of the blog It's a Beautiful Life sent me this after reading the quote I posted earlier about taking time to watch the leaves change.

"I was reading in a little pretty book I own something that says something similar.  I just read it this morning..."

"Mother Schaefer has a yard full of leaf-shedding trees, and she picks up every leaf unaided in spite of her sons' repeated protests. . . 'They just don't understand.'  (She explains.)  'My basket and I want to do the job."

'You see, this life's just too busy nowadays.  Everybody's busy rushing someplace so they can get back in time to rush someplace else.  They want me to join this and that; they want me to go here and go there.  It's all very nice, but they don't give me any time to think... I need to sort things out, to think them over and then talk about them---with God.'

Even as she explained, the fragile little lady knelt and kept on with the work she loved so well.... She rubbed each leaf against her pale cheek as if to feel each tiny vein.... Then for a moment she closed her eyes, and I knew it was in prayer."

June Masters Bacher
Quiet Moments for Women
(this piece was found in "The Charm of Simple Things", editor Terri Gibbs, (c) 1998v)

Thanks Brenda! 

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Take Time

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn." 

~   Elizabeth Lawrence

The perfect agenda for a Fall day!

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Fall in our Townhome!

Some signs of fall around our townhome:

Jim knows how I love trees so he dug up this little maple for me earlier this summer. It is turning the prettiest shades of red right now.  I'll find a protected spot for it for the winter and hope to watch it grow again next summer.

My one little Cinderella Pumpkin is still on the vine growing in the petunia pot. Being a late bloomer, I doubt it will turn yellow but its carriage shape is easy to see. Next year I plan to intentionally plant some of these seeds in a pot - early enough to maybe have a jack-o-lantern  come October!

This is the extent of my fall harvest but I am enjoying it.
Hope you're enjoying Fall, too!

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Morning Coffee on the First Day of School

School,
Effort, and
Play.
Trying your best
Each hour of the day,
Making new friends,
Being good as you can
Exciting discoveries,
Reading books with a friend."
- Boni Fulgham

Doesn't September always seems to be so full of promise?  It's amazing what a new pair of shoes and a fresh notebook can do for one's outlook. 

I believe I will have another cup of coffee, grab a brand new notebook and begin my day!

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Morning Coffee - a feeling of Fall

"This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders."

~Sarah Orne Jewett

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