Autumn Barn

Greeting, my friends!  I was inspired by the photo of our Autumn leaves and our barn that a local woman captured, so on our way home from running a few errands the other day we got this shot from the other vantage point, from the car!  The yellow leaves are on our weeping Birch, the red is the Pin Oak and the orange is the Chestnut tree.  Kind of fun.. in the foreground are dried Queen Anne's Lace.

The Walnut tree is naked, to it's left and right in the foreground are our two ancient pear trees.  

Trying to capture some red leaves before the oak tree is naked for months and mooonnnntttthhhhs.

Now for a funny story about my dear husband.  He keeps informing me that I have enough Jadeite.  I smile and agree.  Yes, dear.  You're right, dear.  Grin.  WELL.. now who do you think went on craigslist to see if they had any Jadeite?  Take all the time you need.  Give up?  OK, I'll tell you.  It was DAYLE!  He said, look, 5 bowls for $40.  So, I contact the seller, offer $30 and she accepted.  So, off we went to NE Portland to the Alameda district and the woman brought them right to the car for us.  6 bucks each.  I just looked on eBay and ONE of them is $45 including the shipping.  

The are marked Fire-King on the bottom which is good, some are not marked but all of these are.

The saga does not end there, no my friends, there is more.  He also likes to look at Facebook Marketplace and guess what he found the next day?  A silver teapot and sugar.  The lady was asking a very reasonable amount and then she showed me a candlestick and marked it down so we got all three.  This is the guy that was telling me to stop buying things.  Silly boy.

This blanket brings me much joy, it is the Woodland design by Lucy at Attic24 blog. 

Lucy just launched a new blanket design called Meadow and so I clicked on the link her website and ordered the yarn package so I can join her blanket CAL (crochet-a-long).

Here is Lucy's yarn selection for the blanket project.  I borrowed these images from her website to show you.  This will bring such colorful joy to work on this winter.

Dayle made us a wonderful split pea with ham soup in the InstantPot.  I showed you the soup cookbook we bought for the IP not long ago.  It was fanTAStic!  He used 2 small ham hocks, some ham chopped small, onion, carrots, potatoes, garlic, bay leaf, S&P, and chicken stock.. and of course the dried split peas.  The actual cooking time was only 15 minutes, but you have to heat it up and cool it down, including prep 1 1/2 hours.  Delish!

If you celebrate Thanksgiving, I wish for you a happy day full of good food and thankfulness.  Be safe.  ((hugs)), Teresa :-)  

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