Moving On

I can't believe how quickly the weekends go! I've had my "dog" company here since Friday and yesterday daughter #2 came down for a visit. I love it when she visits because it is so much fun catching up with her and it doesn't hurt that she always comes bearing gifts. Lol This time she brought me the cutest "blinged" out turkey and he found an immediate home on the shelf in the family room. I think next year when I have more time I might try to put together some kind of an arrangement where he is front and center...maybe a small dough bowl?

Then she brought me the largest bunch of flowers I have ever seen. I honestly couldn't fit them all into one vase-even my widest mouth one-so I made two and have one next to "my sitting place" in the family room...

...and the other in my bedroom so I have some "pretty" in each of my favorite relaxing spots.

And then she always makes a stop at the Fresh Market for me. We don't have one here. I have so many of their specialty deli things that I just love and this sweet girl loads me up on it all! I will be eating dinner thanks to her for a number of days to come.

Of course we had planned to watch grandson #1's football game but due to the squabble that YouTube was having with Disney, we couldn't get ESPN+ no matter which way we tried. Luckily for us, with family there, daughter #1 watching it in St. Pete and a radio broadcast we were able to pretty much keep current and everything was going well-although there was never enough point difference to give a feeling of total "we've got this"-but we were ahead-and then the final drive brought it all to s screeching STOP. King's Point was getting close to a goal but the Coast Guard held them a number of times until they got their first down with about 40 something seconds to go and scored in the last 5 seconds! What a bummer!!! It's probably a really good thing I hadn't gone to Boston because I was having enough of a heart attack just listening from Florida!

As I think I said in a previous post, a win is always nice but this experience will be something he will always remember and this grandson of mine usually gets over things pretty quickly. It was a great game but a heart breaker none-the-less.

All of the family and friends that were there cheering on the Bears!

And so that brings us to today and we will move into the dining room. Right now things are quiet but I am waiting to hear if this room will be hosting Thanksgiving or not this year. The plans are for daughter #3 to host the family this year UNLESS my grandson's-her son's-college football team goes farther into the playoffs-which they still might even after this loss I think?! In that case, she and her family will probably head up to Connecticut and I will be hosting the rest of the family. Luckily, my dining room table will open to accommodate and a very large number and then we also set up the tables in the sunroom so we will be good. 

I saw this table in a magazine many, many years ago. It came from Habersham Plantation and, since we didn't have a local dealer, my husband and I drove up to the actual flagship store and factory in the mountains of Georgia to check it out. It has three pieces. The middle piece has two wings so it becomes a large rectangle and then the two semi-circle end pieces make it even larger. Or, you can take the two ends and create a circular table and then just use the rectangle. Or, if it worked for you, you could butt a semi-circle up to a wall and have another sort of table. I have never regretted this purchase for a second-or the beautiful carved armoire and four poster bed that we ended up buying while there even though that is not what we went for-for even a second. Even if we did have to have the bedroom bay window removed to get the armoire inside. True story but I'll save that for another day! Lol This thing has worked for us for many years and I love it. Lots of food eaten, crafts made and games played at that table!

The shelves started out looking like this and then I found a watercolor turkey image that I couldn't resist and before I knew it I had it printed and Mod-Podged onto a canvas in no time. And then I started the walk around the house to figure out where in the world it could go...and honestly, why in the world did I make it. LOL

And so, the bottom shelf now looks like this.

As I have said before, I am drawn to watercolors and it does give the once very brown shelf a nice pop of color.

And, let's remember that this now looks like this...

I can't believe that Thanksgiving is just 11 days away and I'm still tweaking. Lol

It is an absolutely BEAUTIFUL day out there so I am going to take the days out into the yard and let them run their little hearts out. Then, if I don't get myself caught up in a gardening, I will have a late lunch next to my twinkling tree and find a Christmas movie-either one I haven't seen or maybe a classic. I usually save my favorites until closer to the "real" day but we shall see. Stay safe and stay tuned.