doing fall...

bringing some color in today...

bought the apples...

but the rest is from the yard...

nothing like waiting until October is a third gone to get started...

so much sorting and purging today...

just taking a short break and then doing lunch...

not sure what else we will get done...

but will be in the kitchen, I am sure...

not sure how long this is going to last...

cats, you know...

they have a thing for natural stuff...

Tori already shredded a leaf...

had to sacrifice one so she would leave the rest alone...

the windows are open and it's about 70 in here...

nice breeze blowing through...

and the humidity was like 27 last night on the news...

I was so surprised to hear that some of you all were scared by the headless horseman tale...

I am so sorry!

I always thought of it as a comedy...

really...

I know I am warped...

but Ichabod was such a scardey cat...

and I thought it was funny how a silly little man...

who thought a little too highly of himself...

could scare himself so!

Brom Bones made up the horseman to get his girl back...

a man of more brawn than brain is able to outwit an educated socialite...

and a moocher...

I loved it...

I always felt sorry for Gunpowder...

having an idiot on his back and all...

anyway, half of my hamburger is gone so I better get it finished and get back to playing...

ahem...

cleaning...

Love is...

I have been eating supper in 2 stages...

one in my normal eating time...

and then whenever DH gets home from the elevator...

he had yesterday off, but was so tired we didn't do much...

we did get a small drive in as the sun was going down around town...

just to see the trees turning and fall decor...

Marydon has more...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow...

I am sure at one time or another...

we have all read this story...

it is one of my  favorite fall/ halloween stories of all time...

and I would read it every year...

and though it has been printed so many times...

with so many covers...

for me, it never gets old...

Washington Irving was born on 3 April 1783...

the youngest of 11 children...

and during a yellow fever outbreak in Manhattan in 1798...

his family sent him north to live with a friend in Tarrytown, NY...

close to the Dutch town of Sleepy Hollow...

full of Dutch customs and ghost stories...

as a teenager...

he made many trips north up the Hudson River...

getting his setting for another story...

Rip Van Winkle...

he was an ambassador to Spain...

he wrote biographies...

including one of George Washington...

he was very successful as a writer...

and made a fine living at it...

encouraging other authors of his time...

if you want to know more about him...

look him up...

he died 28 November 1859...

and he was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery...

Sleepy Hollow, New York...

with his head...

confused?

you're not the only one...

besides me changing my backgrounds more than I change my socks...

and the fact that it looks like fall...

smells like fall...

days are shorter and the nights are long kind of fall...

it sure doesn't feel like it when it's 85...

summer won't let go...

and those poor trees might need some sun screen if this keeps up...

the shorter days have the sap going down...

but, if it holds on...

we could have a really long fall...

and that means a shorter winter...

there's been no hard frost yet...

tomatoes are still coming on, but just a little slower...

did not get one green pepper this year...

bought them all at one place...

not one...

had blooms...

have never had that happen...

planted them within the flowers...

had bees...

don't get it...

it's just weird to go out and rake leaves and come back into the central air...

and that's all I have to say about that...

Happy Pink Saturday!

found a few PINK halloween costumes online...

isn't this just too cute?

or how about this one?

or this one?

I had boys, so I didn't get to shop for anything like this when they were growing up...

this is what I got to wear when I was a kid...

they sure have come a long way, haven't they?

I made my kids' costumes...

sat them up on the stools at Walmart every year so they could go through the pattern books and pick out what they wanted...

they never once picked out anything PINK...

still have roses blooming...

love my knock out roses...

pretty PINK...

now, you know you must get smashed...

just like a pumpkin...

so go out there and stick those booo-bies in the vice...

they will fluff back up...

in a day or so...

breast exams every month...

you know what to do...

also check your arm pits...

and milk yourself...

something they don't always tell you until you have to see a boob cancer doctor...

you lactate all the time...

just in smaller amounts...

so it's ok if the discharge is milky or clear...

or green...

really...

it's hormonal if it's green...

I freaked out at green...

checked with 3 different doctors...

they all said the same thing...

what you are looking for is blood...

any bloody discharge means you pick up the phone and make an appointment right away...

what do you do if you find a lump?

chill out...

not all lumps are the C word...

I have 2 fibroid tumors in my left breast...

they won't take them out...

they say they are not cancer...

so they just left them in there...

it could also be that  you have clogged ducts in the milk gland...

you know, the ducts that remove what you lactate monthly...

sometimes you need a roto rooter man to go in there and unclog things...

or to just remove the milk gland...

it's not cancer...

so there are good lumps...

just don't freak out...

call you doctor and get in...

have it all checked to make sure...

and don't freak until it's time to freak...

and then, chill out...

my step mom and 2 of my cousin in laws have kicked this...

they all had the breast reconstruction surgery after and have been cancer free for many years...

check yourself...

and not just once a month...

do it every week...

know what your breasts feel like...

so if something does pop up...

you will know right away... 

be wise...

be safe...

stay in the PINK!