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I'm still having fun, with paying attention to Autumn.  Halloween is still front-and-center.  And it will remain so, for a bit after the holiday even.  

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But as November settles in, I'll begin to want to celebrate Thanksgiving Time.  November will be time to celebrate *Cozy Time.*  Making home to be a warm and welcoming retreat, etc.  

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And then, after Thanksgiving is over, I'll want to put up some Christmas decorations.  Play Yule Time cd's.  Etc. 

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In other words, my inner self seems to follow the turning of the Wheel Of The Year...  And make me in-the-mood, for whatever Season is upon us.  I can't rush it though.  When it feels right, I change my surroundings.  But not until!  :-)  And this is probably a very individual thing.  We all get the urge to decorate differently, according to our own "inner clocks."  Yes?  No?  Maybe?

After you read a book, which you particularly enjoyed, do you go to the author's web site and/or blog?  I do.  I found the blog of O.R. Melling,  the author of "The Chronicles of Faerie" series.  And left a comment.  And she was kind enough, to come to my blog, and leave a comment.  How lovely is that?!?  I was very surprised, and very pleased.  :-)

If I've had something sweet...  I want something salty, to follow it.  If I've had something salty...  I want something sweet, to follow it.  And after dinner, I have to have something sweet.  Not a dessert, per say.  Never have dessert.  Just a couple of Jordan Almonds will do-the-trick.  How funny is the way our minds work.  Because that *craving* for a bit of sweet after dinner, is not true hunger or appetite.  It has to be "in-my-head".  :-)

(The red leaves on this tree...  Gone now......  But not forgotten....)

"Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree."
~Emily Bronte

Do you Dear Reader, have a favorite blog?  I mean, a blog on which everything makes you droool?  :-)  The Background...  The pictures...  The size of the pictures...  The picture subjects...  The words...  The lovely, warm, homey, cozy, pretty effect of the whole blog?  -happy sigh-  I DO!  But I'm not gonna' "spill the beans."  Not gonna' tell you, which blog it is.  :-))))  I love so many bloggers, that it would not-be-very-nice to single out ONE, and point to it, as *My Ideal.*  :-)
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But I do have one!  And I do look to it, for suggestions, on how I'd like my blog to come-across.
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Now I suppose, that's pretty juvenile.  Kinda' like a teenager, trying to model herself on some teen idol singer, or some such.  -sigh-  But!  But!  But!  Isn't it mature, to see something lovely, and want to emulate it?  Isn't that what bloggers do, when they see a picture of some home decoration, and love it, and try to kind-of replicate it, in their own home?  And that's not looked on as immature. 
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Do I sound as if I have made-my-case?  -grin-  That I'm not displaying immature actions, to love to TRY to make my blog look like my *Idol's* blog?  -grinnnnnnnnn-

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♥ Decorations, here and there...

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We brought this Cute Guy back from the Rotary Scholarship Foundation Brunch, on Sunday.  We actually didn't have a pumpkin.  And This Cutie was our table center piece.   For a donation, you could bring him home.  So he enjoys watching the world go by, from our front patio table, during the day.  But at night, we bring him in.  Don't want him to end up smashed, out on the road, in the morning.  -pout-

I took a copy of this book, out of the library, for "Uncle A." and he's been enjoying it so much!  Mostly he reads Large Print, and this didn't come in LP.  But it's so packed with interesting info, that he's been slowly reading regular print. 

But, it's a New Book and you can't keep them out too long.  So I said, let's buy a copy and take the library book back.  Which we did.  We got t his, on the same morning trip, on which I got my Witches Hat.  That was a good *errands trip*!!!!  :-)

We rarely buy books anymore.  But this is the wise exception.  He enjoys it!  It's a pick-up-now-and-then-book.  And it IS packed with thought-provoking information!  I was considering getting a couple of house plants.  But not now!  I could never get rid of them, if I grew tired of them or something.   NOT with what I now know, of plants!  I'd feel cruel.  -pout-  :-)

That lovely tree again.  Which by now, has lost most of its leaves.  Sad...  But I enjoyed it and took pics of it, while I could.

This house has been decorated for a while.  Every time I go by, I wish I had my camera.  Well, this time, I did and we pulled over and I finally got a pic.  Those hanging Ghosties are so cute.  I didn't think so, when first seeing them.  But when the wind blows, they float about and are just the cutest!  :-)

Yes, I want some.  But we don't have a porch, on which to hang them.  -pout-

And yet another variation, on the color changing, of some Sumac.  Thank you to Dear Readers who told me the name of this kinda' funny looking tree or large bush.  :-)  I don't like them, in the summer.   But they do put on a beautiful show, with Autumn.

Mmm, are they poison?  Or are some Sumac's poison?  I thought "Sumac" and "poison" went together....

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Kitty..."Hugo"...Leaves...Stories...

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This is "Bad Kitty," "BK", "Lucy", up close and personal.  She who you have seen in my  blog before.  But across the lawn, sitting in the window of the back porch, next door. 

Being a kitten, she didn't stay still long enough for me to get good pics.  But she is nearly still, in this one.  Very friendly and cute.  But I can't pet either cat much...  Or it will mess with my allergies big-time.  -Blahhhhhhh- 

"Hugo"  Charming...!  If you haven't seen this DVD,  I suggest you do.  :-)

I read the book, on which it is based, and wanted to see it, in a theater.  Then didn't...  But our library system has it, and I got it and we watched it last evening.  As I said...  It is charming...!

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Something from an Oct. post, from some year in the past...

I really have to get going around and taking pics of local houses, decked out for both Autumn and Halloween.  I see them, and either I don't have my camera or....  There is too much traffic to stop in the road.  Ahhhhh yes!  'Tis another time of the year, when "Uncle A." has to put up with;  "Can you stop?!?  Beautiful flowers there in front of that house!!!"   -chuckle-

Autumn beauty, from a past year...  -sigh-

This year, not as brilliant...

Another picture, from a past year...  One of the beautiful old homes, in my city.

The iron fence in front of this old house, is said to have a hot-spot on it...  Spooooooky...  ,-))))  I love, love, love old stories about old places.  Love 'em.  But not everyone wants to read them.  So if I copy/and/paste the entry about this fence, from an old blog of mine, I'll put it at the bottom.  Then Dear Readers know that it might be longer, than what I write in my regular post.  But if they are in the mood for a story, they can read it, at the bottom.
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A Place For Spooky Stories, From Our Old City

The fence/house pictured above...
This is another beautiful old home, on the same street, as the above house  (That, I will tell, another day.) It has a black, iron fence in front.  There is a story, that some part of that iron fence was supposed to be warm to the touch, even in cold weather. Dummmmmmmm-de-dum-dum....  ~~~~~~  It wasn't warm yesterday.   I checked one spot anyway. If I do research and find it is a particular (hot) spot, I'll be sure to go back and check! Maybe on Halloween night, hu?  ~~~~~~   Mmmm, maybe NOT on Halloween night.

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♥ Have you looked around, your "neck of the woods"???? :-)

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Well, my present "blog-look," may not be purrrrfect.  But I am more pleased with it.  I'm kind of "caught between a rock and a hard place."  Since I want an Autumn look/feel here.  But most of the free backgrounds I find, are tooooooooooo brighttttttttt or busssssssssy looking, to me.  But the free Background I have, though a pretty and soft color, is kind of dullllllllllllllllll looking, to me.  -grin-  

Yup, "Auntie" is never satisfied!!!  ,-))))

Plus, "Auntie" should get-a-move-on and cover that little shade, on that little mantle ambiance lamp!  "Get a move on, Auntie!!!"   There is a HOLE in it, for "Pete's Sakes"!  ~~~  Hmmmmm, where did that 'saying' come from??????   "For Pete's Sake(s)!"  It is meant to be a kind of an exasperated saying.  But, who was "Pete"??????????

A big house, again.  Viewed through a nice gate, even.  ~~~  I've really got to get this bunch of Pretty Homes Around My City pics posted, and out of my iPhoto program.  I'm forgetting which I've showed and which I have not.  I THINK these are for-the-first-time.  If not, please forgive.  ,-)

-sigh-  Betcha' I've shown this one before.......  -sigh-   It's one, which I have gone by and noticed, more than once.  Remember us going by it specifically, to take a pic.  But did I already show it?  Who knows.  :-)

And this may well be, the left side of a porch, already shown...   OH, but it does show a Balcony.  A kind of a Balcony.  And I love balconies.  That will be my *excuse* for showing it.  ,-)))

And I thank Dear Readers for saying that my pics of pretty homes in my city, are nice.  And I fully appreciate all the pretty places in my city, which one can ride around and admire and take pics of.  It's lucky, to live in this city.   BUT!!!!!!!!

Every area has interesting things!  Every town, city, outskirts, edges of town, etc. ~~~  Every one has interesting things, to notice, and appreciate, and take pictures of.  ~~~  Just because you haven't noticed any big, gorgeous mansions around your area, please don't think you have nothing to note.  ~~~  Please kind-of-open-your-eyes a bit more...   ~~~  Notice interesting things, in 'your neck of the woods'.  ~~~   And if you choose, please share pics of them, with 'Pretty Blog Land." 

Please....   Pretty please....   Pretty please with sugar on it.  :-)

Hey, I used to belong to a blog, which offered connection to zillions of other blogs, which featured a 'Pic A Day' of something, in their city, town, etc.  "Daily Photos Of My City"  That kind of blog(s).  Oh sure, some were of Paris, NYC, Venice, etc.  But many were from wee, little places, here and there.  These people are not afraid to find a daily pic of "something,"  in their general vicinity.  :-)

Anyone can do it.  IF they choose to.  I know, pics of our particular area, are not what all bloggers want to publicize on the Net.  But......   It's a possibility....   Yes?   Maybe?  Perhaps?  Especially when a blogger gets in a *purple funk of I don't have anything to post about.*  -moan-moan-moan-  ,-)

Oh but yes, we all have something.  We all live somewhere.   :-)

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♥ Hey! Finally! A question, again! ,-)))) [ADDITION]

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Late summer garden...

Basically a well taken care of little square house.  But!  I don't like the looks of the addition they tacked on, to the left in the picture.  What I can see of the window in the addition, does not look like it *goes* with the look of the original house.

More of the late summer garden...  Which has its own beauty, still.........

One of those BIG old houses, which I can't imagine the cost of heating them.  But...  Don't you just LOVE that wrap-around porch?  Oh my!  Especially the kind of a gazebo-looking part, on the right of the picture!  Now, if it were mine, I'd screen in that gazebo-looking part, on the right of the picture.  I *hate* flying bugs and mosquitoes!  I'd love a screened-in porch.  Yessss!!!!  Who wants to join me on *my* screened in porch?!?  -grin-

Tags in the back neck of my robe.  In winter, my flannel nighties have higher necks, and tags don't bother me.  But in summertime, my nighties have lower necks and I have been itched by tag(s) in this robe, for years.  Today...!  I...!  Took...!  Action...!  ,-)  I clipped the ding-dang tags out!!!

Perhaps this is an example of how we go on, for years and years, knowing that something in our lives, is bothering-bugging-irritating-ect.  us.  Why do we take so long, to pluck it out?  Why?  Why?  Why?

Does this remind you, of something in your life, which irritates?  Which should be plucked-cut-sliced out of your life?   If so, I wish you Courage, to DO IT...!

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She came out of hiding...  ,-)

And she did it with grace. 

And by looking quite lovely, *to boot.* 

Good for you, Kristen.

♥ This and that... And a "Report" :-)))))

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Misty morn here, on Thursday.  This is looking to the south...

And misty morn, looking to the west, also...

And look who is up and looking at me, this morning!  "BK"  :-)  Last week, she had her nails removed, and wasn't so perky.  But she certainly looks perky today.  Right up there, in old "Lucky's" (older cat) perch, again.   Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Well, at least now, they can duke-it-out, on an even-playing-field.  She had nails before, and he does not.  Now they are both fully in-door kitties. 

Another pretty house...    A BIG one this time, Babe!!!  -grin-

And another old house.....   Love the *gingerbread* trim.   And the colors...  Gray, pink, white...  Yummmmmmmmm...  :-)

This one, is very different.  It opens right out onto an Alley.  Because it's an old carriage house, which has been made over, to be a home...  The big old homes are in the front of the lot.  And the carriage houses are in the back of the lot.

Such carriages houses are prized, in town!  To be purchased and made over into a dwelling place.  Keeping as much of the original decor, as possible.  I doubt if there are any left, which have not been purchased and redone.   

Isn't that charming?  Kind of like "Old Town" in places like Marblehead Mass.  Where the doors/windows of the very old homes, open right onto the street/road.   :-)

I didn't finish the book.   I'm just not-that-into 'Domestic Diva' books.  But the cover is so, so, so, so, so, so cool for Halloween!!!!  ,-)  Btw, don't know what the main color of the book cover looks like, on your computer, but on the real book, it is ORANGE!!!  :-)

And in case you are wondering,  YES, the first part(s) of getting-a-hearing-aid went well.   The Ear Doc did a thorough examination!  All fine.   The very-nice Audiologist, in his office, did her noises/sounds/etc. testing, with me in the little booth.  -gigggles-

She explained her findings...  Will send them, to the Hearing Aid place of our choice.  Which will then contact me, to set up an appointment, for me to come in.  And for them to fill the Audiologist's Rx, etc., etc., etc.  Just like with the "Chuck It" Cleaning Out, it was sooooooooooooo wonderful, to have done that!!!!!!  I am officially on-my-way.  Again...

"Again" because about 30 years ago, I had aids.  With luck, they have improved, in 30 years.  Of course they have!

But I fully know that hearing aids are not purrrrrrrfect.  They are NOT like putting on glasses, which have been made to your  Rx, for your eyes.  So that you can see wonderfully again!!!  NOT SO with putting in hearing aids.  They are not purrrrrrfect and one must KNOW / ACCEPT this reality.  :-)  I do.

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:-)  And I close out today, with a picture of Ryan Monroe, 'rockin'-out' with "Band of Horses," on summer tour...  :-)))))

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