Pumpkin Overload

 I saw a Facebook post where the lady was drop kicking pumpkins out of her house as soon as the trick or treaters were gone... then moving on to Christmas. Ron doesn't really want me to do that. He thinks that Thanksgiving deserves some time this month. So... I have tons of pumpkins for decor now. I am actually enjoying that alot. It took me a couple of days to get "things right"- lol 😉But now I have arrived. Even my cheap Amazon wreath looks good on the front door, with my fall rug. I am posting now, before I get tired of that- haha. 

Brown Baby Bird for Christmas

 This coming week, I will take some new inventory out to Homestead Handcrafts for Brown Baby Bird. I made some new fun sets. And I am just getting started on some new Christmas sets. (I will probably have those done this week, too.) I have been doing well at Homestead Handcrafts for several months now. And.. I updated my Etsy shop. When I am ready to "post" there, it goes quick... but getting everything ready to post there is very time consuming. Anyway... things should be good for the Christmas holiday coming up.

Halloween 2026

 Today is Nov. 1... I am putting away Halloween tomorrow. Good thing I am getting my blog post done today. 😉😂Of course my October decor is Halloween. I got a new Halloween wreath for the front door... PINK. I made a few Halloween bags for Brown Baby Bird. I think I sold three of those. (Two of those I made from Halloween towels that had an embroidered spider on them.) We had a fun Halloween dinner at the Pete's last weekend. Audrey shared some pics of their Halloween costumes. (She had shingles early in October... and now for Halloween, she has the flu) 😒😕So their Halloween party got canceled. Our "trunk or treat" activity got rained out AGAIN... so now I have two of those in storage. I am glad that we still passed out candy inside of the church on Friday night. I can store my trunk decorations, but I am not storing candy. Another lady did a couple of cute wall decorations that helped to make some great photos. Ron and I just wore our "duck hats" from a couple of years ago... in honor of the rainy "duck weather". Our Val. 10 kids were all there... I got some cute pics of them. Cookies, soda, and candy for all. 😎They had make your own "dirty soda"... Ron had no idea what that was- lol.
The last picture is a fun yard decoration, that is just down the street from us. It is a dinosaur holding a net in one arm and a ghost in the other. (You can't really see the net very well.)

A Sad Thing for October

 Kitty is gone. We had to take her to the vet and have her put down. We have known that she wasn't very well for most of this year. She had a "mass" between her shoulder blades that kept growing. It started out about marble size and finally was about tennis ball size. Ever since Ashley moved in with us, Kitty has been staying in our bedroom. We have a double chair in there that was her "place". When we realized that it was too much effort for her to go up and down the stairs, we moved her food, water, and cat box to our bathroom. The mass between her shoulders eventually ruptured and there was blood and fluid coming out of it. I wrapped a roll a gauze around her and then that same day we scheduled the appointment at the vet. I wasn't really planning on watching the whole procedure, but we did. That meant that we got to see that she wasn't in any pain and just went to sleep and her heart stopped. I didn't really realize how bad she looked until I saw some of these old pics. Anyway, she is no longer suffering, and she was at least 15 years old (maybe more). Ron love to say that "she adopted" us when she showed up when we started building the Bandera house.