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| 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)
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| 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)
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| need to add more applesauce next time |
the recipe source:
one day the sky is like this,
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| looks like a painting right? |
an hour later can be like this
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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
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| yes, that's the top of our year round xmas tree behind me |
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| 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.
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| 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
Of course I don't have ginham prints but.... I DO have an abundance of Halloween fun prints!
