Cleaning

   
     
"Nothing motivates me to clean like company and crickets."

I thought as I frantically vacuumed every square inch of our house. We have recently had an outburst of unexpected crickets, and to top it all off we were having company over. Lets just say that it was definitely not one of those pleasant cleaning experiences. I mean really, who likes stepping on those little guys and being grossed out just trying to walk through their own house? And who likes to having a kind of war just to get to their room at night? So needles to say, today I am very thankful that those little guys are gone:)    Can you believe that it is already November?! It seems as if yesterday it was the first day of April!      

'Tis not enough that ev'ry Stander-by 

No glaring Errors in your Steps can 'spy; 

The Dance and Music must so nicely meet, 

Each Note must seem an Echo to your Feet; 

A nameless Grace must in each Movement dwell, 

Which words can ne'er express, nor Precepts tell...  

- Soame Jenyns

A Good Morning

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.  

~C.S. Lewis

October in the Air

A black cat dropped soundlessly from a high wall, like a spoonful 

 of dark treacle, and melted under a gate.  

-Elizabeth Lemarchand  

 

In honor of fall....

I decided to change my template in honor of fall. I love this season!
                                           
   Maybe it's just the simplicity of this picture, but it is so gorgeous!:)