T Stands for Tuesday & Greetings to the T Gang

   Hello Friends,

    Dropping in this week for Bleubeard & Elizabeth's T link up. It has been awhile. Life has been more busy and a bit crazy here, so I don't link up if I don't have proper time to visit everyone, read and reply. I did want to visit and say hi to everyone this week.

  Tuesday is the beginning of a new month. I have really enjoyed our October this year.  For the  most  part lovely weather here most of the month. We did get needed rain and also had two days of hard freezes in the 20's f, since then no more freezes. The sunrises have been spectacular this month with lots of reds, purples, and sometimes bright yellows.

 Every new morning brings us joy to see a new sunrise. I took this video over the weekend. Better viewing at full screen.

FYI That was the screen door shutting you just heard

  I haven't done any crafts really since I mailed out the Fall postcards which I believe were towards the end of August or early September-so it's been awhile. Today (Sunday) I decided to be lazy (while washing-drying clothes) and play with watercolors. My first attempt with the watercolor crayons I didn't care much for, and tossed out that page. I used the water brushes to take off the paint from the crayons and that resulted in lots of splatters over my page. Next time I try I will make paint from them on a pallet.  Today I dug out my watercolor paints and for inspiration I am looking at a fall photo with lots of rocks and water. ahhh so so, I need to really set up a regular practice day each week for painting to try to improve.  It is fun for me so for now this is a good thing, but I would like to paint better. I am on Craftsy and just found a really good teacher for watercolors and mixing colors So am hoping this will help me.

  We invited our new friends over for another pizza dinner-they loved the last one. These pizzas turned out even better. Didn't get photos, but I also made chocolate cupcakes as our new friend Mary lovesssss chocolate-anything chocolate.  These turned out really good. I turned a Bob's red mill gluten free yellow cake mix into chocolate, and searched online for a keto frosting to not add more sugar to these. Yummm sooo good. This frosting recipe is a keeper, and you can freeze the left over frosting for up to two months. These needed to be stored in the refrigerator with this frosting, and I had the perfect containers for that. I even found Halloween cupcake liners in my pantry.

I also found Halloween sprinkles in my spice cabinet So I served these after the pizza 

  We opened up a bottle of red wine to go with the pizza-of course forgot to take photos but this is the last of it. This was a really nice red. We have had this bottle for quite awhile. Back when Lilburn was still with us he bought the rest of a liquor and bait shop at an auction. Most of the labels were a bit dirty-I just washed them off with soap and water

I haven't been reading much either, which I usually do allot of in the evenings especially if nothing much is on the tv. I do have books waiting for me though.

  We have always loved birds and watching them, and we are up close and personal now as we are feeding seed on our deck. One day last week, Larry was so excited as a Hawk landed on the railing-we are thinking he wanted one of those little birds for his lunch. We haven't seen him again.

  I will be driving back to the woods house again this week, but I will be around to visit.

  The beauty of autumn was at it's peak here in the Ozarks this past week-so beautiful. This is looking out at the lake on the deck. They have been doing allot of work there where the smoke is.

   Enjoy your new week-and looks like also Welcoming in a new month. I don't think I am ready for November just yet.