T Stands for Tuesday & This and That

   It's T time again where we share a drink photo (anything you are drinking) and join in with a link up over at our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth.

  We have had up and down weather here, and Sunday it was a sunny and warmish fall day; perfect day for the grave site burial of our dear friend Lilburn and a potluck afterwards.
   I am reminded of how rural this area in Missouri is when we have gone to several funerals including this one. The family digs the grave before hand, the people attending fill it in after the preacher's words.
    The preacher wears blue jeans, and at one funeral we attended everyone was to bring their gun to shoot a send off after the burial. I feel like I am re living history down here sometimes. My husband and I always look at each other -"this would not be happening in northern Illinois where we were from" There are also still many family burial sites on personal farms-like in the past.
   The potluck was really nice and there was food I could eat (gluten free). There is a native american family that is related to Lilburn by marriage (and Lilburn's mother was full Osage) that brought two large venison roasts-soooo delicious, tasted like a beef roast. Allot of other meats, allot of sides, fresh fruit salad which was nice and of course allot of desserts, and choices of water, soda, and kool aid type drinks.
    I decided to bring pecan pie bars. as Lilburn's favorite pies were lemon meringue pie and pecan pie. I never made these bars before but Hub's tested one and said they tasted just like a pecan pie. I found a recipe at land of lakes.

This is a photo after I cut in one direction, and then I went back and cut small bars

    I haven't gotten back to the cushions-instead I discovered a quilt I had made three years ago that we use allot was coming apart at the seams-on the back. I had used precut 4 inch squares that I was gifted to make the backing. When I was finished I even told myself I didn't realize these were probably going to ravel even though the seams were inside the quilt.
     So I have been hand stitching them down to repair
    This is turning into quite the project as I hadn't noticed it was happening-and one section I think may have gotten caught in my washing machine. This was an every day quilt that we have used allot so hoping it will go through more washings after repaired.

We had a gorgeous sunrise this morning I even have Larry looking for them now, and he spotted it first. There were also allot of low to the lake flying geese, sea gulls and ducks.

This is looking to the right on the deck towards the neighbors dock

There were so many oranges and purples that it reflected on to the lake This pair of ducks were swimming very fast across the lake

For my drink share, this week I have been enjoying coffee and teas in the morning and during the cooler days

  I really love the pour over coffee-easy clean up with filter too, and remember when this was the size of our coffee cups? I actually enjoy this size cup better than a big mug.

I brought out one my favorite tea pots and a cup-this tea was gifted to me a few years ago from our friends in Pennsylvania (state in usa) and I just uncovered it in the move-lol  This was a really nice flavor combination

and I just picked this one up. I really like this tea, doesn't remind me of pumpkins really, but has those fall baking spices.
  Those of you that save tea bags for art-Stash is really nice-the bags are folded and sealed hard with a machine, and the tag is sewn on-so easy to clip the string, and the whole tea bag opens up flat to one piece

   I will be gone in the morning on Tuesday as I have errands to run at the woods home area, so if don't stop my tonight I will visit later on Tuesday

Happy November and T everyone.