T Stands for Tuesday & a Lovely Autumn Weekend

Happy Tuesday Everyone,
      It's T Time again this Tuesday. 
        In this blogging event we join our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth for T. We share a drink related post with friends. 
     You are Most welcome to join us, just show us a photo of your beverage and then link up with our hostess.
     Find the link in my right hand column.

  We had the most gorgeous fall weekend in my area of the Ozarks. Deep blue skies, full sunshine, upper 60's f for the temperature, and not much wind--just a perfect October weekend.

   I grabbed the camera and took a couple photos-out back. 
Our oaks here mostly go right to brown, so we don't have allot of color near the house. The nut trees give yellows but those leaves have dropped, we do have the pretty red on the sumac, and we have a maple tree near the house that is pretty and has reseeded in a few places around the ponds

Deer foot prints

Tepee poles. 
    We brought down with us when we retired-Hub's handmade tepee that him and his re enactment group had made-many years ago now.
    My vision was always to get it put up and do a sleep over and then early morning go on a primitive hunt- sadly never happened.
   We finally got the poles made though-in hopes of selling it all before we move.

Miss Calico enjoying the warm sun Cats never seem to show their age-like dogs do. She is going on 19 years old now-amazing

My last little sunflower-these grew in this pot on their own from bird seed that fell in from the birds Around 5 plants grew-this is the last one.

I am going to see if I can start walking again now that the weather is nicer and more comfortable-we still need a hard freeze though to kill off those biting bugs.

     I made up several Christmas cards this past week, figured out a way to use those stamped pieces that were on tracing paper too. I totally forgot to take some photos before I sealed them in their envelopes.  
     I ended up gluing down another piece of parchment paper on top of the inked piece-then glued that piece to the card-and then hand stitched the sides down.
   I had about 8 or more of those stamped so didn't want to waste them. They turned out really pretty.

  I am still waiting for my Christmas sealing stamp to come in the mail-couldn't figure out why it was taking so long from Amazon-turns out it is coming from China-haven't figured out how they can say it is being delivered with usps (our post office)  Oh well-So I ended up purchasing another different Christmas stamp in case that one doesn't get here in time.  I want to get them in the mail early this year right after Thanksgiving.

      Allot of the stress is finally gone with our lake house.  
The bank wants us to have flood insurance which is very very expensive, the new fema maps show us right on the line or just away from it. 
   The seller and that area says no it doesn't flood.  Well after much digging and looking into it all-we discovered we needed to have a survey with elevation--Happy Dancing on late Friday-the report came back-- this property is Not in the flood zone-- they also did all the paper work with fema for us that needed to be done. 
   That was a big one for us to get done. 
  So I think we are all set now for the closing which is the end of November.

   We went to the eye specialist for my husband last week-he has been putting this off for several years now til we could find another eye surgeon. We were learning about allot of dissatisfied patients from the office we were thinking of using. We are very pleased so far with this new doctor, and scheduled his first catarach surgery.  There was a cancellation so he got moved up to next week. 

    So we have lots happening here it seems.  

   Our friends from Wisconsin that come down for deer hunting-"deer camp" -will be coming in on Wednesday instead of Friday in a couple of weeks-being our last one we'll need to make it special.  They have already asked if they can come down to the lake house-of course they can-lol

   Oh and update-our friends just called, and they are coming down on a Monday instead-a week before deer hunting-gun-to tile our two floors for us that need to be done. How special is that??  I have been putting off Larry doing this because he is just not healthy enough any more to tackle this job and I was getting ready to study how to do this-they must have been reading our minds---so thrilled over this kindness.

  Sorry this post got so long  

For the drink I am sharing this week, I made a treat after working in the garden area over the weekend.
   I had one ginger beer (no alcohol) left so I added it to a glass of frozen vanilla yogurt.  Yum

Happy T Day everyone!!

and here is a photo of my blueberry Bai water from the weekend when I was water sealing the wood stairs and decks  I finished that project up today-looks so nice now-ready for winter

  More photos on my previous post--this is the building I shared  a while back-the upstairs is our sleep over spot for out of state friends, and the downstairs is Hubs business space