" The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances". - Martha Washington

Friday, November 1, 2024

Happy first day of November

 Putting away Halloween and back to Autumn with some leaf raking.  The Oaks are dropping their leaves pretty fast.

Halloween we had a few early trick or treaters and loved seeing them dressed up and having fun.

Girls dressed as Steam Punk and Sweet Frog.




Superman was here too.  Ghost had to tilt in for a shot also. 
I love those goggles

In my kitchen are apples for apple butter.  Hopefully next week Pink Lady apples will be ready.  

I picked the last of tomatoes and a few more black eye peas.  There are more of them so I will leave them alone for now.  

Back yard full of acorns, ugh!

You can see the Lavender I chopped back at base of dogwood tree has started spreading again.  I hope it takes up the whole area .  The scent is heavenly.  
I love Autumn

6 comments:

Mariette VandenMunckhof-Vedder said...

Dearest Betsy,
Indeed, today is All Saints Day at least for us Catholics.
Tomorrow All Souls and a different meaning this year for me...
Your two grand girls are so different!
Happy for your lavender spread, they smell indeed heavenly.
Hugs,
Mariette

Miss Merry said...

The costumes were great!!! I am boxing up Halloween this morning! I am leaving the pumpkins and scarecrows for Thanksgiving. My neighbors are putting up Christmas decorations . . . .

Kim said...

The kids look great! I bet you love having them close by on holidays! I never noticed the Martha Washington quote at the top of your blog before. Excellent words! I need to write them down!! Happy November!!

Debbie-Dabble Blog and A Debbie-Dabble Christmas said...

Betsy,
Love the costumes on the girls especially the Steam punk one... I will be taking Fall and Halloween down soon and start decorating downstairs for Christmas and outside too...
Hugs,
Deb
Debbie-Dabble Blog

Betsy said...

I am glad all mine is down today. I will get things ready for Christmas but I want to get Thanksgiving done first, it's later this year so my tree may be up while I celebrate that as it takes me longer to get the stuff down and put up for display.

Betsy said...

Thank you Miss Merry. I put my decorations away too. I usually leave the pumpkins but the gnats got too them so bad.