October almost over and b'days

Couple b'days in October.  My granddaughter Genevieve, my sister and mine.  Genevieve and her great Aunt are the same day. 

Publix made and frosted the cake for Genevieve and her mom purchased Capybara characters.  So cute!

For meeeee.

Children and grandgirls brought me flowers, cannoli and chocolate cover strawberries and fruit 

Love the card too

Along with the flowers on the table. Two things my husband got me are these two birds made from steel from Raindrops in Virginia.   I love stuff like this.  One will go on the side of the fence I believe. 

My sister brought me some much-needed slippers.  A very pretty pillow cover and two glass pears that a votive sits at the bottom of both. I ate the whole bag of cashews she brought, a weakness of mine.

Pretty purse and gloves along with scents from friend Jennifer. Pretty lavenders. 

I made the other day some bell pepper soup.  I like it better than stuffed peppers.  It certainly does make a difference to sauté the onion along with garlic and red and green peppers for more flavor.  

So good.  Ground beef, rice, peppers, garlic, diced tomatoes with a little basil, tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce.  I did add a couple Boullion cubes, I guess liquid beef stock would have less sodium, but I didn't have any.  

                                                We had toasted baguette served alongside

        A ride out to Palmyra Virginia for some apples. 

 

This was a week ago.  The leaves were not all changed but still pretty color

For dinner later in the week we stopped in Panara.

Steve loves the chili and Caesar salad

Me, I love the Harvest soup or pumpkin soup.  My favorite!

Fuji apple salad is another favorite of mine. 

We got a new outbuilding.   We need it for storage and some tools.

I will be painting it deep red.  We purchased this already made and painted at such a great price. 

I don't mind repainting it. 

A few little plantings around it and maybe a small fence for decoration. 

That's it for now