Whereas the attractive colours offered by the bushes is just about gone, there may be a lot magnificence to be discovered within the extremely blue sky on chilly clear days, the remnants of (now) dried flowers and foliage on bushes and crops, the landscapes which are extra uncovered now that leaves have dropped, and, in fact, lights! Our Christmas lights are up!!
Truthfully, I in all probability would have had them up and on by the primary week of November however my oh-so-practical husband satisfied me I wanted to attend till Thanksgiving. I get it. The season is so exploited as it’s however I did not need to push it essentially, as an alternative I needed to get pleasure from it for only a bit longer this yr. However I waited.
I had marked on our calendar “Christmas adorning!” for Thanksgiving morning. I needed the lights on to unfold vacation cheer for these touring residence on the finish of the day. And so that is what we did.
What we got here to seek out out is that he has diabetes insipidus. It is a uncommon dysfunction and, fortunately, simply managed with a medicated eye drop. A really costly eye drop (in fact), however an eye fixed drop nonetheless. We do not know the precise trigger (ADH deficiency or mind tumor) with out placing him via extra testing and we’ll seemingly go away it at that. He is been via a lot.
And so, now we have added one other treatment to his every day routine. Poor man.
In all of this he started having points sleeping, once more, and we’re nonetheless attempting to transition him again to sleeping in his mattress and permitting us at the very least 6 hours of sleep per evening. He’s now lastly doing fairly nicely with it.
The backyard is buttoned up, the out of doors furnishings, grill, and so on. is put away for the yr and we’re beginning to prep for the winter ice and snow that may quickly make its look. We obtained a dusting however that does not really matter, does it?
Keep in mind all of these Asian pears from our tree that I put up within the freezer? Effectively, I made a completely scrumptious apple cobbler with a small portion of them (photograph above). As a result of they’re so candy, I included a few granny smith apples for his or her tartness and it was excellent.
It is vacation season which suggests our cleaning soap and skincare enterprise is buzzing proper alongside. We aren’t collaborating in any craft reveals this yr however our farmers market stays busy and now we have our merchandise on the Brookside Museum Artisan Market up till Christmas Eve. And naturally, our on-line retailer continues to bless us with fixed enterprise. I am transport containers every day. It has been a superb vacation season thus far. We’ll be taking two weeks off at Christmas and New Years and we’ll be prepared for it.
I hope this finds you doing nicely and having fun with all the fantastic thing about the altering of seasons.
