Hunting and Gathering

A September Saturday at the Stone House. Come in, I've been busy. Nesting for Fall, hunting, gathering and some deep cleaning here today.

This fall I tucked 'R' initial here and there.

This weekend I did some heavy duty cleaning. The farmer next door harvested their wheat and that makes for some dust in the house. I know I have to clean before I can decorate for fall so that is incentive.

Then I hunt up my fall bits and pieces, gather everything up and then create some little spots for some fall decorating. Gathering for decorating isn't all the gathering we've been doing though, Hubby and I did our BiG trip to Costco Thursday evening. Baking supplies, pork roasts, cleaning supplies for the fall were purchased. This morning I went to the grocery store and to a gift shop in town, Surroundings, that had just relocated. I picked up a few things including a Farmer's Market Yankee Candle.

Saturdays and cinnamon rolls go together. It's the first thing I do on a fall Saturday morning. Good thing too, Max was whining to Auntie Shelly that he hasn't had a cinnamon roll in months.

Football laundry, get it started because it can smell up the place. Light that new candle!

Gather some fall reading material. I think the Pottery Barn catalog is my favorite.

Added some Halloween to the kitchen, the book is Ghosts, Beasts and Things That Go Bump in the Night, a campfire collection of short stories that I picked up at eddie bauer several years ago. Don't worry, it's not too scary!

I put together a fall centerpiece for the dining room table. If company is coming I can remove the globes and add some fresh flowers.

Another small vignette in the dining room. I get the filberts from my folk's orchard, they are good filler.

Now for the easiest fall craft ever, I picked up six small pumpkins at the market and then add scrap book stickers to spell autumn. I make this every year with some variation such as, fall is fun, happy halloween, boo, autumn or what ever comes to mind. Maybe pumpkin?

I baked a peach pie for Sunday dinner.

After the house was clean, ready for fall, groceries put away, I took a walk in the yard to check the grapes, enjoy the Fall light and check out the stacks of firewood for winter.

Looks like we are ready for the first day of Fall this week, my favorite!