Happy Halloween!!!

Sitting at the sewing machine in my teeny tiny sewing room it hit me! Today is Halloween!!

Seeing as how it has been a month since my last post, if I hurry, I can wish you a happy Halloween. We have no trick or treaters way out here in the country, but here's a couple of cuties thay came in a text...

Miss curly top, Violet. Not sure who she is dressed as but I do know it's a character from Toy Story...

Bet she can hardly wait to collect a bucket of candy. 

Halloween used to be such fun in the little town of Robbins where I grew up. There was music and dancing in the streets in downtown. I remember once there was a cake walk and when the music stopped, there I was! In the right spot! The most bashful kid in town. A lady came over and put the big chocolate cake in my hands, Somehow, I managed to get the cake to mama. :)

Would you look at this lovely witch...

What a spooky back yard she and Jason have! Easy to see however, that my daughter Lynn is a good witch on her way to work...

Anyhow, aren't the leaves simply beautiful!! And we were told by folks on local TV stations the colors would not be as pretty this Fall because of the drought. We need rain terribly bad. Our little pond needs water. 

Here's a picture. Look how far above the water the little old pier sits. Poppy and I built that pier and built it too low. Sometimes, it is under the water.

 We do see a few beautiful spots along the path as we walk Ellie every morning...

and down the power line...

You all know that Poppy calls himself a big deer hunter. Well look at this picture he took from his hiding spot near Randall Rabbit's home...

Lucky bunch of deer we have around here. Poppy came home empty handed. I love it!!

Not much of a post. Mostly wanted to say hello and happy Halloween...and I am still blogging!! 

Love, Henny

Back, by the skin of my teeth!

Whew! If it's not one thing broken around here, it's another! Cannot send pictures from my iPhone to our computer. Have been messaging them to Poppy and he then emails them to my gmail address and I download to the computer. Well now Poppy can no longer send them...something went terribly wrong???

So! I am now messaging pictures to Andee in West Virginia and she is mailing them back to my gmail address and I download them to the computer. Sounds like some of us don't know what we're doing. :)

Anyhow, the weather has cooled off a bit here and we are actually getting a little rain, as I sit here. 

I should be sewing bonnets and aprons for the upcoming Christmas Craft Bazaar but both my sewing machines are in need of repair! Like I said, If it ain't one thing it's another! :)

My teeny tiny greenhouse and playhouse have been a mess all summer...

With the record-breaking heat and dry weather this summer well, it was just no fun being there. Now that it has cooled off, I've cleared a spot behind the playhouse for stuff...

Hopefully, these plants will survive the winter back here, especially so after the leaves fall and cover them. Most the other potted shrubs, rose bushes, etc., are inside the garden fence...grouped together for the winter...leaving the playhouse cleaned out and open...

Now to do some fixing up and changing things around. No longer a very pretty site. I definitely want a new rocking chair for next summer! Any suggestions?

So now, I have a little persimmon story to tell... Poppy and I love persimmon pudding but there are no persimmon trees close by or at least that's what we thought...

Walking down the path one morning I found a pretty orange persimmon in the middle of the path. No kidding! Poppy said, when I opened my hand to show him the persimmon. We walked back down the path and sure enough there was a tall skinny persimmon tree leaning out over the path. Several cars and trucks travel our path daily, so we have had to watch closely and check often for a fallen persimmon.

Finding only 2 or 3 at a time has taken patience to prepare and freeze 2 cups of pulp. This is 1 cup frozen and a few more left on the counter to ripen. Finally, after weeks of this, enough to make a pudding...

and hot from the oven...

and it turned out good! Do any of you like persimmon pudding? I was really surprised to read that persimmon pudding originated in the Midwestern United States particularly Southern Indiana. I always thought it originated up around Seagrove North Carolina, some of mama's people. :) 

Well, I guess that's about it for now except a little photo shoot with Smokey...

that serious look when it comes to his food

showing off those claws

and a perfect little angel

Thank you, friends, for visiting. Hope you'll come back!

Love, Henny