Fortress Of Good Fortune

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Happy Thanksgiving!!! :)

Got my weekly cleaning done yesterday because I'm more interested in decorating than cleaning tomorrow, ha, ha. Today I took my walk, am watching some of the parade, and ready to go to the big feast in awhile. :) By the time I get home later, the turkey will be working on me and I'll be watching football, including my Patriots during the night game. A day of doing nothing but what I want to do. Rare but true! :)

Crossposts: https://bradygirl-12.livejournal.com/1546134.html

It's Halloween Week!!! :)

Fitting Halloween weather, as the Munsters and Addams Family would say, as it'll be raining all week. We are at peak color now, delayed because of our very rainy summer.

Last month my sister treated me to lunch on my birthday at an Italian restaurant I'd never been to before. We both enjoyed baked haddock, my sister ordering green beans and I sampled the linguine. *mmwa* Also great homemade bread.

We topped it off by going next door to the Italian bakery and buying chocolate and vanilla cupcakes. Oh, my, heaven! :)

Oh, the golden days of fall! :)

It's Halloween Week!!! :)

Yes, it's the best time of year. The colors of the trees around here are at their peak, brilliant yellows, oranges and reds, and the harvest of pumpkins and gourds are bountiful. The weather is cool and they are predicting snow showers on Friday!

My sister and I went to the apple orchard the Saturday before last and picked up fresh apples, an apple pie, and giant cookies. I got peanut butter for the cookie. :)

We went to The Old Mill again and she had a big Caesar salad while I had pot roast, red bliss potatoes, and we shared boneless Buffalo wings for an appetizer. We also shared lemon meringue pie for dessert. Yum! :)

The ducks were gliding along the pond and the mini waterfall was gushing after recent rains. It was beautiful as usual. Ironically, it had been years between visits to this restaurant on my birthday last month, and now it was only a matter of weeks between that visit and this one. Ha, life is funny!

The IonPlus Channel is presenting spooky episodes of Murdoch Mysteries on Halloween from 11:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. They do spooky very well! :)

Enjoy the week, folks!

Tomorrow's a busy day! I'll be off-line most of the day as my sister and brother-in-law are taking me out to Sunday dinner at a very nice restaurant for my birthday. We'll probably watch the rest of the Patriots-Raiders game after.

Food and football! What could be better? ;)

It's Thanksgiving Week!

If you're not traveling or cooking the feast, it can be a relaxing week before the holiday whirl really begins. The leaves are down, the days and nights are growing colder and the days are growing shorter. Time for sparkles and sequins and secrets under the tree as the nights grow longer! :)

First, the Feast! :)

Happy Fourth of July, everybody!

May your hot dogs and hamburgers be hot, your macaroni and potato salad be cold, and your day be fun! :)

Yep, it's National Popcorn Day! Celebrate by popping some corn! ;)

Hi, luvs!

Halloween was a lot of fun at work this year. We all dressed up and had a party. We carved pumpkins (mine was a bat!) and ate food that the Culinary Arts students prepared while music played. I had a doughnut hole, two slices of bruschetta, and cranberries on toast. The punch was just right, not too sweet.

I wore my Ghouls' Night Out T-shirt, black pants and shoes, a purple Witch hat, black, yellow and orange beads, a Jack O'Lantern bracelet and a diamond-eyed (not real, ha!) snake bracelet. My make-up was a little wild and pictures were taken of everyone. Others dressed up as a voodoo boca, a cat, Cruella De Ville, zombies and a spiderwoman. Treats were given out (I brought some candy, too) and I probably overdosed on sugar, tee hee.

The lobby was filled with ghosts and mummies (cut-outs) and three Witches bent over a cauldron. The dolls were adorable! In my office was a ghost and a plastic Jack O'Lantern holding a wand. :)

We left all the decorations up for the rest of the week and will take them down Monday. It was a lot of fun!

After work was oohing and aahing over cute little trick-or-treaters and lighting candles for an appropriately spooky atmosphere while watching TV in-between answering the doorbell.

Hope you all had fun, too! :)

I had a great birthday! My sister sent me funny, celebratory pictures this morning on my phone and had treated me a few weeks ago to a birthday lunch after we visited our favorite apple orchard that was holding a craft fair. Very cool stuff! She also bought me apples and an apple pie. :)

She treated me early because she knew she was going to be busy this weekend. I got a real cute birthday card, too! :)

My co-workers were super-nice and gave me a box of chocolates and surprised me with a strawberry shortcake! So working on my birthday was pretty cool. :)

This weekend it's time to visit my local farm stand and get a baby pumpkin and gourds. Best time of year! :)