Beautiful Fall Days

Happy Wednesday! It's so hard to believe that it's November 5 already. I have so much to do in the next month before our trip to London, if it even happens with the state of the world and the airports. Who knows what will be occurring in the next few weeks? I need to finish all of my Christmas preparations as well as get cards ready to go out before we leave. Meanwhile, I have doors and windows open, because it's so beautiful outside today and I can see all of the beautiful leaves turning color from my chair where I'm typing this post. 

I'm still struggling with posting on the computer. Not that the computer isn't cooperating. It's me. It's all me. The new hard drive is working well so far. But I can't get the photos to line up correctly. It's a long process to get them from my phone to the computer and then onto the blog itself. The iPad was SO easy to use to post. I have great, great respect for those of you who post daily. So far I've been working on this post for over an hour and it was just getting photos on here! Hopefully I'll get faster with more experience using the laptop.

But first, I thought I would share some of my fall decor with you. I put it out the first week in October. I don't decorate for Halloween so everything I put out is appropriate for both October and November.      

On the kitchen island is the beautiful tray that my blog friend, Pamela's son made for me for my birthday last year.  I really love this tray and it's perfect for decorating for the seasons. The black thing in the corner is a battery pack for the lights inside the birdcage.

The cabinet under the television is always fun to decorate.

Over the fireplace.

Have any of you seen these screen savers on YouTube? They have hundreds for all seasons and they make your television look like a painting, complete with a picture frame. I like to have one of these on the TV when we have company, instead just a big black screen on the wall.

I ordered this solar light for our son Alex's garden on my Amazon UK account. It makes giving gifts to our family there so easy. To mail a box is ridiculously expensive where this is just like ordering from Amazon here in the States. I ordered this and it was delivered the next day! It's a little watering can. I chose one with bunnies on it because I thought "Baby J" would like them. Alex loves to garden and he can see this  from his desk when he's working in his backyard office. His birthday is Dec. 7 so it's a little early but he'll be in Japan on his actual birthday so we just sent it a bit early so he could enjoy it now. They have a small garden as is normal when you live in the middle of London so this seemed to be the perfect size.

Dennis spent the day at the food bank today and now is at our associate minister's house helping him install a new window. He likes keeping busy and his almost 50 years of home ownership projects come in handy for helping others.  Meanwhile I spent the day vacuuming, dusting, giving Zoey a bath, and will soon be knitting on another Christmas gift. I put a roast/potatoes/carrots in the crockpot this morning so dinner will be ready whenever he gets home and is ready to eat. I'm debating making biscuits to go with it.  We're trying to cut back on carbs, but how can I pass on homemade biscuits with a roast?

I finished the hat/scarf set below for "Baby J" on Monday. Both the pieces together only took one day to complete. The color should match her school uniform and was requested by Mom and Dad.

Well, since it took so long to get this written, I better get busy and finish up so I can get a few more things done around here. I hope you all have a wonderful week and enjoy the fall. 

Blessings and hugs,

Betsy

Many of you seemed to enjoy the last video I posted. Here's another that I really like from Phil Wickham called "Homesick for Heaven". I hope it blesses your heart like it does mine. I can't wait to dance with David too. :-)