October has always been one of my favorite months-both of our birthdays are celebrated in October, and when we lived in northern Illinois before retirement-I just loved the deep blue skies and gorgeous fall leaves.
Here in SW Missouri we do not always get those deep blue skies and here with mostly oaks and hickory not as much leaf color as I was used to. The first colors are the deep reds of the sumac bushes, a few yellows from the nut trees like black walnuts, but the oaks are mostly brown-never knew that til we moved in the woods. A lot of the oak leaves stay on the trees too until the spring leaves push them off.
We have early voting here in Missouri so I will be driving in to our courthouse to vote this week. I asked for an absentee ballot for Larry this voting cycle. I prefer to vote in person.
We both celebrate our birthdays this month too-I turn 75-Yikes Have not wrapped my head around that one yet. smiles
I do feel better since I lost a lot of weight-about 12 pounds so far-just need to get toned up and see if I can manage a walk around our steep hill of a road-that is also a circle. I have also stopped buying snack foods like chips, fritos etc I was addicted to those and my body doesn't like those anymore either. That was hard-as I always would rather eat snack foods than a meal. Now I grab a small cup of fruit, or cut up an apple.
I wanted to make us some fall cut out cookies this month. I have a very huge cookie cutter-stamps-molds collection-but only found cutters for a pumpkin, and an apple-so I also grabbed a bison, and a dog. I bought two leaves and an acorn cutter for more of a fall variety Found a package of natural food colors too. Maybe this weekend I will start on those. Was also searching for a keto frosting for sugar cookies-to keep the sugar content lower. One recipe called for meringue powder which I have not worked with before. I also cut the sugars in the baking recipe with splenda and keto sweeteners and use a little natural sugar with those.
Looking at the weather forecast-Wow we will be in the 80's for a long stretch-loving that.
Enjoy your October
