fall thrall

It's finally OCTOBER, my favorite month!

Halloween decorations are up (more scattered throughout the house).

Leaves are starting to turn...acorns too!

Fall-themed puzzles are in full force.

I probably have at least 30 flannel shirts and I'm wearing one almost every single day!

(Pepita approves.)

Gorgeous sunrises and sunsets.

My roses only look really great in October, for some reason.

Baking intensifies!  This week, German chocolate cupcakes for a birthday party.

I bake bread every week for my daily toast, and have for years.  The past six months my loaves have gotten worse and worse.  I tried replacing the yeast and still got this:

I replaced the whole wheat flour next, and it made a HUGE difference.  Now that's toast-worthy!

The cats are still sleeping the days away...

We had some temporary plastic tubs on the dining room table and the boys loved them so much, we had to make them permanent!  They prefer them even to their heated cat beds.  

Pepita too.

Warm days, cool evenings with our nightly horror movie, a cat in the lap and a dog snoring on the back edge of the couch...it's the best time of the year!

from our SC house...can't wait until the leaves turn here!  Another couple of weeks.