T Stands for Tuesday & Summer is Back

Good morning 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 in, just show a photo of your beverage. Link in my right hand column.

   We have been enjoying some very nice cooler weather and less humidity but that is now changing back to summer again. Getting warmer every day through the weekend along with the high humidity-ugh 
   At the post office this morning they were talking about looking at the local persimmon seeds-and they are showing the spoon-which means  a rough winter-cold and lots of snow-another ugh ha ha  
   If you are not familiar with the folk story-that locals believe-about the winter forecast per the persimmon  seeds-find information here. 
    
  Saturday afternoon we enjoyed the country wedding for our friend's daughter.  The weather was perfect, just a little windy. The other daughter and my friend's sister made all of the food. Excellent buffet-pulled chicken, pulled pork, numerous salads, lots of fresh fruits, fresh veggies with dips, a huge cheese tray, macaroni and cheese and much more. 
     I didn't want to be bothered with carrying a purse so I didn't have my camera with for photos. This was mostly a casual dress event-I wore a pair of nice jeans and my indigo blue dyed silk blouse underneath with a long sleeve low neckline with ruffles silk blouse I had tea dyed-Wearing both made me happy. (smiles)  

 Sunday morning we toured two more lake properties. These were in a city we had not been to yet-and a bit further north than we thought we wanted to be. The first one I was excited about-the photo showed a large brick wall with fireplace and to the side I asked our realtor Wow that looks like a baking oven?-can't wait to see it.  
        This was definately set up for a summer getaway-loved the fireplace and baking oven, and they had an outdoor cooking area with a cold smoker and much more-so I was in love with all of that. On further inspection though-this was a converted house trailer, was not winterized, and where located I think one would definately be snowed in for sure. It was also too small for us, and the neighbors were too close for me.  Would make an excellent investment property to rent out weekly though-not for us any more.
    Hubs had discovered another property from his internet search that was just a couple miles away from above-an older home so didn't have all the newest bells and whistles of updated bathrooms-only had one and I really wanted two this time-but this home had all hardwood floors, and an updated kitchen with lots of cupboards, a room we could turn into a library with both of our desks and desk top computers. Not too many steps down to the home which is a plus, and has three bedrooms-one for us, one for visitors, and one for my craft room. A long frontage view (200 feet)-wall of windows from the living room area to the deck.
     We fell in love with this double lot water frontage with it's natural shale sea wall-very deep water and updated boat slips.  So I am excited about this one. We will visit this home again later this week for a better inspection.
    Although this is a bit further north; the drive to it is straighter and not winding around all over the place.  I can get to a grocery store in either direction in less than 30 minutes-which is huge for me.  The basement is a bit scarey-the steps are really bad, and it needs a new cement floor poured-I can use this space for lots of shelving to hold my canners, and all my craft pots etc. I am thinking perhaps an area for my dyeing and paper making too. We'll see what happens.



     Today (October 1st) is National homemade cooking baking day. I hadn't made cookies for us in a long time-so this past week I made big batches of toll house chocolate chip cookies regular and one batch gluten free-yum-I froze most of them-so we don't eat them too fast ha ha

Gluten free batch

Wheat version

  I used coconut oil instead of butter, splenda instead of white sugar and coconut sugar instead of brown sugar. So the sugars are cut down quite allot but the cookies do still have the carbs. A nice treat for us though.

 A little cuteness, we mostly just have the one family stopping by mama and the twins-these are the older ones-spots are gone now and there is a pile of apple peels on the left from the apple pies I made last week.(I took this photo that day I made the two pies)

  For my beverage reference this week-I rarely drink any type of colas but at the beginning of summer I buy a 12 pack of diet root beer and also a diet of something else. This year I bought the coca cola zero no caffeine-I really liked it. I am still finding some tomatoes in the garden.

Happy T Day everyone.