Tuesday 4 ~ An Autumn Day

 An Autumn Day

Hi friends. The weeks go by quickly and summer has turned to autumn so fast its amazing. It is time for Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4.


We have an invitation for a weekend at our friends estate...

1 We have a choice of skeet shooting, horseback riding, a sail on their lake or games on the lawn like lawn tennis, croquette, etc. Are you interested in one or will you stay at the house reading or talking with friends?

Oh my! So many fun choices!  Do I have to choose just one?  I will probably choose a brief sail on the lake (if someone else is doing the "driving"), a game of croquet, visiting with friends in the house or on the lawn, and if I were younger I would love to go for a horseback ride, but at this stage in life I know better than to attempt that.  I would be quite sore for a week if I did! LOL.  It all sounds lovely!

2. In the afternoon there is a hayride to enjoy fall colors and pumpkin or apple picking. Which one suits you best? How about a hayride to enjoy the fall colors and stop by the pumpkin patch to get a pumpkin and then stop at the apple orchard to pick some fresh apples. Then go back and sit around a campfire and sip hot spiced cider while we roast marshmallows and make s'mores while we wait for someone to bake a fresh apple pie! LOL.  I want it ALL!!!!!

3. In the evening there will be a choice of movies in their screening room. What movie gets your vote?   

I am not a big movie fan, but if it's something fun and either full of action or a romantic comedy, preferably a classic movie, not something new and tawdry...LOL, then those sound good.  I'd probably still be outside roasting marshmallows and visiting around the fire...

4. Our last night there is a costume ball. What will your costume or character be?

Oh dear, a real costume "ball"?  That sounds rather formal.  I believe I will be  Cinderella, and at midnight the giant pumpkin will arrive to take me away to dreamland.  This all sounds like a lovely dream! Thank you for a delightful Autumn Day!

Now, back to real time...Actually, this weekend we will be enjoying a lovely autumn day at my niece's home in North Carolina.  We will be having a family reunion of my family.  My next to oldest brother (Clifford) and his family will be there, and my sister (Doris) and some of her family will be there and my oldest brother's daughter and son and their families will be there. My oldest brother Russell passed away in 2019, and at our last family reunion of that particular fall we had a "Celebration of Life" for him.  This will be the first time we've all been back together since then.  Our son Benton and sweet DIL Rose will be going with us. Our son Scott won't be able to attend this time due to his work schedule.

I expect we will be doing some of the above activities while on this trip...playing some lawn games, sitting and visiting with each other, sitting around the campfire and making s'mores, eating lots of good food, and maybe even an apple pie...It will be a delightful time of just enjoying being "family".  

These pictures were from that last trip in 2019, but I expect it will look much the same this time as well:

So, until next time, this is where I'll be and what I'll be doing, for at least part of the time!

Thank you to so many who have sent such sweet birthday wishes!  I truly had a wonderful birthday, and I thank the Lord for so many wonderful friends and loved ones who made it extra special...Here's what happened after my last post...

Benton and Rose created this lovely new sign for my "Secret Garden", since the old sign had pretty well rotted and fell apart.  Isn't it beautiful?  Even has butterflies on it!! Now if I could just find my secret garden...LOL.

Sugar and Spice came to wish me a happy birthday too! Aren't they just precious???

And last, but certainly not least, God sent this beautiful rainbow to finish out my birthday with the sign of His promise!!    What a magnificent way to end a perfect day...God's sign that He is with us and will always be here for us...

Genesis 9:13-17

13 I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 15 and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

It just doesn't get much better than that, does it?  

Thank you again for being here!  May God bless you all with His great love!!