AMANDA'S BASKETS: FALL WEATHER FLIES IN ON HIGH WINDS...

Friday, November 1, 2019

FALL WEATHER FLIES IN ON HIGH WINDS...

Change Can Be Scary
Change Can Be So Beautiful
Life Is Full Of Change

You can see that the tree across the street is getting brighter. Course, full sunlight also helps. This is how beautiful the sky looked today...

Today was very, very windy as was last night...we lost electricity again...and much, much cooler. High today was 70 (around 1am) and it has cooled to a nice round 54. Not bad for November 1st.

I repotted most of my herbs to see if I can keep them alive inside this winter. I have never really had much luck in that area but I am always willing to try...

I have one more to repot but am not sure if it will survive at all...

Now all I have to do is figure out how to keep the cats away from the plants!!!

Along with a quick cleaning, I kind of covered the wingback chair using two pieces of fabric and lots of upholstery screws. I had the fall piece on (in the front) but the back and sides looked terrible...read that Tiger the cat. So I took two pieces that went together...well, it's the best I could do because I shopped from my stash...and this is how it looks...

Believe me, it looks a lot better than it did. And since I have not had any luck finding another recliner, this may be the chair that we stay with for the time being. The chair itself is in great shape spring and stuffing wise, just not so much in the fabric area.

I found a great recipe for sausage, tomatoes, cannellini beans, and green beans over rice which I am going to make for supper this evening. Anything with cannellini beans is great in my book.

So this weekend will be spent moving the stuff out of the pantry so the plumber can access the wall. It is going to take a long time to move everything. First I have to figure out where to move it which in all probability means moving something else out of the way...oh well. At least the boys will be around to do the heavy lifting.

Hope you have a great weekend...

Thanks for stopping by...

MONDAY'S PROMPT

Make a list of ten things you would

like to change in your life. Choose

one and plan this weekend on how

to begin the change on Monday.

CRAFTING IDEAS

I am always looking for a small piece of paper to write down something which will later be disposed of. I decided to use some of the scrap paper of which I have a ton. I mostly use the paper for glueing projects. I decided to cut the paper into a small size. (Six pieces from a piece of copy paper.). But just having them sitting on my desk would get messy without a container. So, using a cardboard box, I cut it down to size and using a hot glue gun I glued the ends together. Using a picture from a magazine cut into pieces and stick craft glue, I glued the pieces to the box inside and out. I also used some decorative tape for the outside edges. And to finish the top corners which were not covered, I used straight pins with colorful tops. Looks nice and works well.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

So in looking over your habits what did you find? Some popular good habits folks have are: Meditation, exercise, journal writing, flossing, reading and walking up early. Some not so great habits included smoking, saying yes, swearing, tolerating folks, not sleeping enough, always complaining and constantly making excuses. Do you have more good habits or more bad habits? Is it time to change? If so, start with the easiest bad habit to change, not the hardest. This will give the best chance of success. Decide on the best way for you to change your habit. Worry too much? Set a time to worry and then stop. You may have to stop yourself several times at the beginning but keep it up and you will worry less. Or, alternatively, write the worry down as well as options to stop the problem. Just figure out which way to stop is best for you.