I Like Thursday # 468,breaking fashion rules, donkeys, changing seasons and lunchbox memories

 

from a yard in our neighborhood

time for this week's list of likes . I think of sunflowers as being harbingers of Autumn 

Let's start with some photos, shall we? (I love photography) 

beginning to look like fall in our tree, always the first to color

but still hot especially in the sun, to need this

and although we got our first little mums, flowers are still thriving here

alongside images like this

I made sugar cookies this weekend and coated them in orange crystal sugar to bring on cooler temps lol

we enjoy having cookies as a little sweet after lunch

For a sort of dessert we made applesauce cake with caramel frosting (of course from scratch)

need to add more applesauce next time

the recipe source:

one day the sky is like this, 

looks like a painting right?

an hour later can be like this

but it never even rained! 

we walked to the farm neighborhood again to visit the donkeys and horse.... see the little donkey under it's horse friend? adorable. 

we stood and watched, they all came to the fence to say hello

my favorite one, don't tell the other one

a guy walked up we've talked to several times. He had standard poodles and like us chose to rescue a smaller breed this time. He doesn't seem happy with the choice, and his cairn/ chihuahua mix bolted to the fence to rile up the donkeys

and hilarity ensued. It took a good 10 min after the fence fracas for the two donkeys to stop running around bumping into each other and acting like brothers arguing. Eventually they regained their peace and the horse shook his head over them, and long after the little dog left, it all returned to normal.

a few blocks made for a scrap quilt 

I am skating on thin ice here, wearing white pants after labor day, LOL but as I said, it's hot still. My peepers are swollen from allergies and smoky skies from wildfires, that are clearing out finally

yes, that's the top of our year round xmas tree behind me

one of our wildflowers 

conversation starter this week:

Did you take your lunch and did you use a little brown bag or have a lunch box?

 Oh I loved having a lunch box with a thermos and picking one out was a big deal. I remember the way a baloney sandwich smelled in that box, with a little bag of chips.

I remember having ones like these

I usually bought lunch tickets too, for days when they had a really good meal like, for me, salisbury steak or sloppy joes. We stood in line on Monday mornings outside the cafeteria, bought tickets that we stored in a flip top bandaid box inside our desks. What meals did you look forward to?

I took lunches when I worked in schools, but often someone took mine as if the lunch fairy left it for them

 Oh I loved having a lunch box with a thermos and picking one out was a big deal. I remember the way a baloney sandwich smelled in that box, with a snack bag of chips.

I have three cute adult lunchbox style craft containers I fill with beads, threads, etc

(extra credit if you show a pic of one of yours) (the Smithsonian site has pics of lunchboxes) 

I'll leave you today with a view on our walk to the edge of the neighborhood. Makes me think of that song, "get on down, get on down the road..."

or this one....

long winding road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR4HjTH_fTM

please visit these folks to see what they liked this week, and if they had lunchboxes

http://3poodlesandanana.blogspot.com/

http://littlepenguinquilts

princess bubbles creates   

https://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/

https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/ 

 craftscaviescontras   

https://knittingquilter.blogspot.com/

https://faithtrustandbreastcancer.blogspot.com

https://lavenderdreamstoo.blogspot.com/

taking some time off: 

grammajudyb.blogspot.com

 

https://brianshomeblog.com/  

http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/   

http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com

https://llbinourbackyard.blogspot.com/ 

                                              friday smiles