Baking and a Tea Pot

 Here we are again...Monday morning. Are you ready for the new week?  

The weekend held some great walks.  I baked a Whole Orange Loaf which  was eaten in no time at all. 

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Every year I make Chocolate covered  Peanut Butter Balls and every year I have trouble forming the balls. The mixture ( which contains PB, butter, icing sugar and Rice Krispies) does not want to stick together and form the balls which then go into the freezer to be dipped in melted chocolate once frozen.  A couple of years ago I declared that I wasn't going to make them any more. Youngest Son took over the job and yesterday was the day he came over to do that. Maybe the ones he made were not quite as uniform in size as these from the internet but they were made. This morning I dipperd them in melted chocolate and froze them in cookie tins for the coming season. We usually start the Christmas goodies in Advent, which will begin on November 30th this year.

 

 

I saw this gorgeous tea pot on Pinterest. Isn't it a beauty? It almost matches my tea cup.

 

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Books and a Puzzle

 After a day of heavy rain we're enjoying a break in the weather.  9C with some clouds but no rain in the immediate forecast.

I often read more than one book at a time. Here are my current choices.  A Year in Nature is an almanac which I've begun reading for the month of November ( I just picked up this book from the library yesterday)..I'll see how far I get in the 3 weeks I'll have it ( or I may renew it then). The author is Marty Crump.  Shadow of the Solstice is a mystery, and The West Country is a Garden ( my own book) is full of beautiful paintings of wildflowers and sketches of buildings and places that she has traveled to in the UK. It's a wonderful book that I treasure.

 We finished another puzzle. We each work on half and as you can see once we were done we didn't bother actually connecting the two halves. It was a great puzzle to work on with lots and lots of detail.

 

 That's all for today.  I hope you have a lovely weekend.   Thanks for coming by.

 

 

 

Full Moon

 

 

 Tonight the Beaver Moon will be shining and we have clear skies so we'll be able to see it in all its splendor.  Of course I have to add some trivia...   from the internet.

The November 2025 full Moon is a supermoon, which means it's a full Moon at the closest point to Earth in its orbit.This occurs because the Moon's orbit around Earth isn't a perfect circle. Instead, it's elliptical, or slightly egg-shaped.

 

 My Gloxinia has three new flowers and several buds.  I can hardly believe my luck since mostly I buy  either a Gloxinia or an African Violet in bloom and once they finish blooming that's it.  I can never manage getting them to rebloom. 

Our temperature this morning was 0C and there was ice on the truck windows.  Clouds are moving in tomorrow and will bring slightly warmer days but very wet.  Walking this morning was lovely. I wore a scarf for the first time this season. It's beginning to feel like winter.

 

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The Weekend

 On Saturday we had so much rain that when we went walking at Willband  on Sunday the water level was really high.  At some places the path was under water.  Nevertheless we had a lovely walk.

 

 By walking close to the trees on the left we got by this puddle.

 

Seven swans flew low over our heads. ( This is a picture from the internet but looks exactly like our swans. *smile*) 

 Sunday usually means a game of Dominoes but we changed things a bit and played Scrabble. That was fun too.

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Time Change

 

 

 Did you know that one of the earliest calendars came from Egypt?   It had 12 months  of 30 days .  Each month had 3 weeks, and each week had 10 days.  This has absolutely nothing to do with the time change. 
Just another bit of trivia.

 

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Last Day of October

   

 

Not much happening here on this last day of October.  Rain all day, in fact rain all weekend. Any children out trick or treating tonight will get drenched.
In October we lost one hour and 44 minutes of daylight.

 Creations that my sister made for Halloween. Are they not cute? (the base is a sugar cookie).

 

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More Thrifty Treasures and National Cat Day

 DH had things he wanted to do in the west end of town ( where there just happens to be another thrift store. Actually 3 more.) He dropped me off and I spent a lovely hour browsing happily. I found these nice plastic tubs that I hope to fill with Christmas treats eventually.

 I saw this cute little purse? obviously home sewn. It has a main compartment and on each side  another  compartment  with flaps that fasten with an elastic and a button.  It measures 7 by 9 inches. The fabric has Autumn leaves and dragonflies 💛. I have no idea what I'll use it for. Any ideas?

 Granddaughter Kate told me that today was National Cat Day so here's my Kitty.....

 

 ....and Kate's cat who is Miss Kitty's son.  He was the only kitten of the 5 that looked like her.

 After my busy day I'm ready to sit and read for a while before I head for bed.  

 

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