Where has all the time gone? We just celebrated Vivienne’s fourth birthday last Tuesday, and Thanksgiving is only a little over one week away! And now there’s Christmas music on the radio stations! Yikes! This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. If you purchase any product through this site, I may be compensated, but you do not pay one…
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Welcome to our 2023 fall color tour. Grab a cup of tea or coffee because there’s much to see. Actually, we’ve had a crazy fall this year. Lots and lots of rain, cloudy days and much cooler temps. The weather men said we had much below temps, until we had 2-3 days of way above temperatures in the upper 60’s…
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It’s been awhile for my Stories with Sadie. The last one I posted was when we went on the Panama Canal Cruise in March and Sadie’s own Vacation. You can read it here. This is one of the more recent closeup photos I took of her before closing up the cottage. Unfortunately, she’s getting more grey hair. We adopted her…
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My favorite month is October. It could be because of the leaves changing colors here in Michigan, cooler weather and it’s my birthday month. As in today is my big day! We haven’t taken our annual drive to looks at the trees yet, so the photo below is from last year. “I’m so glad I live in a world where…
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My trip to see the grandkids in Texas and lots of football, came and went too quickly! That week just flew by, as all things do. Fortunately, the temperatures dropped just in time for my visit. No triple digits! I bought a neck fan to take with me, but I’ll be returning it to Amazon tomorrow through Whole Foods. “Elephants…
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Can it really be September already? I saw a cartoon the other day. I think it was a Charley Brown cartoon and in one it said “Summer Flies” and in the next one it said “Winter Walks”. How true this is! We no sooner put our pontoon into the lake in the spring and then next thing I know, we’re…
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At last we finally have a new chair. I’ve been putting off buying a new chair for awhile. The one in our living room that Mr. Cottage loves to sit in, had finally worn out. I bought it from Ethan Allen in 2011 and I just loved the print. It went with the newly decorated family room in our previous…
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I’m sure you’ve all heard about Maui by now, particularly the burning of the town of Lahaina! That is unless you’re on a secluded island somewhere very remote. In case you don’t remember, Mr. Cottage and I were there five years ago to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. I wrote about our Maui trip here. When I first heard of…
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Please tell me it isn’t so! All my recipe cards for all of my recipes have disappeared from this blog. Do you have any idea how much work that’s going to entail for me to replace all of them! I received a comment from someone the other day about my Mexican Fruit Cake. They said they couldn’t find my recipe…
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The good, the bad and the Ugly. No, not the movie but rather things happening over the past week or so. Let’s start with the good! The Good I’m happy to say our hydrangea bush has bloomed even more since I last shared photos of it (you can see here). “A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s…
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Much has happened since summer started in Michigan. Of course we’ve gotten our share of the smoke coming from Canada, as well as drought. Fortunately, we’ve recently been getting much needed rain. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~Confucius Slipcover One of the first things I did was to put our slipcover on top of…
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The great state of Alaska leaves you in awe with all its beautiful scenery, wilderness and nature. Even though I know this blog post has been 12 years in the making, looking back on these photos, I feel the same way as the day we saw everything in person. If you didn’t read my previous post, you can read it…
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