shopping and outside at home

A trip to a store I love to visit and especially seasonally as they have the place decorated so festive.  

Something that will please anyone.  I love the scent when I walk in the store.  I purchased potpourri that smells like pumpkin spice to put in a bowl at my front door.

I am in the mood today for decorating for Autumn.  

Few pics of Classic Touches Farmhouse

located in Amelia Courthouse Va. 

 

Quiche for brunch

red onion with my dried tomatoes with smoke gouda and cheddar cheese

Rooted Basil ready for some good potting soil

We have had some mighty pretty clouds in the sky lately.  

bye for now

Remember

 

Hello September

 I was going to change out to Autumn colors today, but nah, it's still way too hot to do that.  Still in the summer swing of things.   I did add some dried hydrangea blossoms to mantle but I will keep the colored glass bottles.  They remind me of sea glass with the different colors.

Check ya later

Almost September

 I can hardly believe summer is almost gone.  I am still in the summer mode and wanting to visit the beach again real soon.

I will start pulling out my autumn decor tomorrow.  My mantle needs a refresh but will leave my seashells out for a while maybe.  Not time for pumpkins or gourds quite yet. 

Some zinnias picked to take upstairs to living room.  Love having this little kitchenette area downstairs for summer especially.  

So much basil this year.  I washed the leaves then vacuum sealed them for the freezer.  They work really well this way for cooking and especially on pizza. 

My tarragon substitute of Mexican Mint Marigold I do the same way.  Love chopping these leaves into chicken salad and other recipes that call for tarragon.  Will come in handy this winter.  Drying this herb is not as tasty as preserving it fresh.  

I chopped peppers small for recipes then vaccuum sealed for freezer. 

A recipe found online.  My husband said it's delicious.

  It does taste like an apple fritter.

I used almond extract instead of vanilla.

Love slivered almonds on a lot of my baked goods lately.

I placed some on this baked fritter bread after it came out of oven. Let it cool some, then drizzled glaze on top.

 I can almost see Autumn.  The shadows cast tells me of the seasons change.   

Husband and I lunched a few days ago at Islamorada Fish Company in Bass Pro Shop.

Nice view to outside.

Hardly anyone there until we sit down and ordered.  Then the place started having customers roll in. 

My coconut shrimp was so yummy along with sweet potato waffle fries.  First time I had sweet potato fries that actually had a wonderful sweet potato flavor.  So good. 

Steve had shrimp with salmon

Later in the evening on a ride out to Hobby lobby there was this gorgeous sunset

Beautiful sky the day before.  

Some fun stuff this summer was 

a day at the batting cage near us.  

Husband went first

Granddaughter Genevieve 

Me,  I had to take a whack at it after all the healing from the past few months and it felt good actually

Genevieve got this picture of me as soon as ball hit the bat or coming at it I should say

Opa giving pointers

Opa and Genevieve played billiards next

Leaving with a few more pictures of outside stuff

Finally, all of the weeds and flowers that I didn't like are gone. Now more gravel.

Basil kept in water on windowsill sprouted so now it's growing in dirt in kitchen window

Bye for now