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Outside My Window…it’s overcast. A perfect day to plant the caladiums I bought this weekend. I love these flowers. They are bulbs so they come back double in size every year. They were way too expensive over the summer but have come down to $1.49 each.

I am thankful that…the fall weather is finally making an appearance. Of course here in Florida that means temperatures in the nineties will dip down into the most refreshing eighties. We will graciously accept the gentle breezes that these dips in temperatures bring with them.

From the kitchen…to welcome fall I am actually making some pumpkin bread this morning. Okay, y’all can just pick yourself up off the floor from the dead faint the idea of me cooking swooned you into.

I am wearing…the usual but am thinking about whether to wear my puppy designer jeans today or my regular boring jeans.

I am creating…a memorial scrapbook to honor my father-in-law. I took some photos at the cemetery this weekend that came out quite well.

From the learning rooms…Miss Sam wrote her first book report ever (can you believe that she never had to do one while in public school??) She did an awesome job. Her writing abilities have never been an academic concern for me. She has several ‘books’ that she is working on and drawing the characters for. I wish I could figure out how to encourage more of this without ‘pushing’? Any suggestions Heather?

I am going…to re-rent and eventually purchase the original movie ‘Sybil’. I was unable (due to time constraints as the movie is three hours long) to let one of my classes finish viewing it. However, we took a vote last week and the entire class would like to finish it. This will put my lecture schedule behind but what the heck.

I am reading…nothing. I am in between books at the moment. I was beginning to read Danielle Steele’s book Rogue but my interest lagged by about the third page. I did however, just finish reading an absolutely awesome non-fiction book titled ‘In His Sights’: A True Story of Love and Obsession by Kate Brennan.

I am hoping…to unpack the six Rubbermaid bins that we were able to take down from the attic this weekend. They are marked ‘Halloween’, ‘Thanksgiving’ and ‘Fall’.

Around the house…when it gets a little ‘cool’ I tend to focus more on the outside of the house than the inside. The front garden needs to be trimmed back. I need to order some hay bales for the fall decorating that I am just itching to ‘fall’ into (grin). And my fall flowers need to be planted. The inside of the house? Well at the moment it is going to hell in a hand basket but at least we have paper plates and I did manage to do laundry this weekend. Except for Miss Sam’s laundry. She does her own and by the looks of her hamper she will have to go naked today.

One of my favorite things…is (no surprise here) photography. I have made an extra effort this week to get back into the habit of taking my camera everywhere. Here is an interesting shot I captured this weekend on the side of a church:

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week: It’s a busy week once again. Full of appointments. One is for Miss Sam. She has a cavity which is going to cost $300 to fill (eek!!!) so that means a pit stop to see if my counseling check has come in!!!

Here is a picture thought I am sharing…