When I woke up this morning it was in the 50’s! Fall is here, at least for the next week. The wind was brisk, the sun was shining and it stayed cool all day long. The weather called for sweatpants and a long sleeve shirt. Thank you cold front.

Our seeds are sprouting getting ready to be potted in the greenhouse.

Every single year, on Halloween, I watch the original Halloween movie. None of the streaming services we use have it this year, so when we went to Walmart, lol what I found.

This is at the very top of my favorite scary movies! If you haven’t seen it in a while, you really need to watch it again. Or just come on over on Halloween and bring some popcorn.

and just because they’re so cute, here are my cats who have been extra cuddly today. I think they’re feeling the Fall vibes too

The best thing that happened today was our leak was fixed and the wall got put back together. I just need to repaint the area tomorrow. They also found out that the pipe was going uphill instead of downhill so I guess something good did come out of it. Old houses, gotta love ’em.

i need to find a place for these cuties. I’ve had them stored in the shed. I got them last year at our neighborhood grocery store, after Halloween, for 90% off and have been looking forward to finally get to use them.

And here’s disco ghost or seizure causing ghost, whichever. I didn’t realize it was going to flash different colors like it does. Sorry, you only get the purple, but I’ve saved you from a seizure so there’s that.

it’s actually much cuter in person 🤣 Sorta.

Thursday was Donny’s birthday. We normally don’t do cake. Instead we do a cheesecake or pie. In this case we did both. I also made some ribs, beans, potatoes and cole slaw. It was a good night.

if you have an instant pot you need to make these ribs. My daughter works at Texas Roadhouse and said these are better.

i used baby back ribs. Make a rub with 1 tsp each of salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, chili powder and brown sugar. Rub this all over the ribs. Add 1 1/2 cup of water and 1/2 cup of apple cider vinegar to the IP. Put in the trivet and place the ribs in the pot in a circle meat side out. Manual cook for 30 mins with a natural release of 15. Slather on your favorite BBQ sauce and put in a 400 degree oven until the sauce is caramelized (about 10 mins). That’s it. The meat is so tender and falls off the bone.

it’s been so hot here and, for some reason, I thought it would be a good idea to refinish two dining chairs outside in the heat. Well, I finished one and vowed to wait until it cools down a bit to do the other one.

they are very well made sturdy chairs and at 5 bucks each I couldn’t pass them up. I wanted to recover them, but the kids liked the green. It took forever to get all of the white paint stripped off.

i also refinished the top of our antique table. It looks so much better.

i still have a chest of drawers to paint, the remaining chair and 2 bookshelves. Now that the weather is, hopefully, cooling off a little I’ll be able to get it done.