The Capt. and I celebrated our Samhain ‘bone fire’ a bit belatedly this year so we conjured up a combo meal deal of Solstice AND Samhain ending and beginning – yay! Many bones of 2025 to set aside and leave behind as we move into longer, brighter days and a spurt of outgrowth.
Okay, we are adorned and ready for all the holiday festivities. Rhum balls and our not-so-secret cookies are on the dance card for making this week. Come for a visit and hunker down in our comfort blankie of nurture, peace, relaxation, and healing. We are ready . . . with cookies and rhum balls and so much more.
We were a small and intimate group of 2025 gobblers who enjoyed a casual, eclectic, and NONtraditional celebration din din. The Capt., Carol and I whipped together all the good eats and left the gobbling to our guests.
We have been soooooooooooooo stinking spoiled by Katie and Mike at Painless Stitches redoing virtually ALL outside furniture that we had to ask for Round #2 on behalf of the dining room chair seat cushions.
The gang was all HERE and we made pretty snappy work of regaling TSH for another Forevermore holiday season. Our Donna from Livermore had the inspiration for the new element to the 2025 season with the introduction of battalions and legions of angels that seemed to have surrounded us all in profusion this year.
Recently our angels were really looking out for us in the Reunited Resurrected garden when we were alerted to smoke streaming out of the back retaining wall ivy – yipes! The Jerome Fire Dept arrived in a flash and although there were no flames the smoke was significant.
Can you even fathom that it is November already so everyone knows what that means at TSH . . . preparations have begun for our FOURTH annual Forevermore holiday celebration and decorating extravaganza.
The cooler overnight temps have everyone at the night eatery (aka the Honey Shack) feeling their oats. Jasper is looking pretty stinking comfy in the late afternoon sun as he stands watch on what began as his safe haven.
As we near the end of October, it feels like one moment it was summer and the next, fall had fallen! Inside and out, everyone - finned, 4-legged, and green - is beginning to hunker down into the upcoming season when we all celebrate the rest and introspection resulting from the harvest and bounty of spring and summer.
Miss P is typically NEVER out of words but this is an exception. We have been investing energy and resources of all dimensions in this massive outdoor reno and it is nothing short of phenomenal.
