Snapshots: Changing Seasons (and Decorations)

As soon as we change back to Standard Time in November, plunging us back into blackness at dinnertime, I put up my Time Change Lights.

They look a lot like Christmas lights, except it's not Christmas, so that's not what they are. (And I don't know why my camera changes the lighting all photos so much. These are much more yellow in real life.)

I wind them around the decorative iron divider between the kitchen and dining room. They brighten that area up considerably. That's also where the woodstove is located, so it becomes an oasis of warmth and light in the middle of the house.

The heart of the home, you might even say.

Anyway.

The younger kids went to our elderly neighbor Ms. Amelia's house to stack firewood for her, and she sent them home with this truly bizarre Cheetos product called Bag of Bones. They're cinnamon/sugar flavored corn crisps, I guess? Cheeto texture, but definitely not Cheeto flavor. Very weird.

Also, they're in the shape of, well, bones. The boys just crammed them into their mouths. Poppy made this.

Cheeto skeleton.

The Halloween decorations have been taken down, and the Thanksgiving decorations--such as they are--have been put up.

The flock of turkeys in the living room.

And the bonus turkeys, which include two one-eyed turkeys. I call these the Odin turkeys.

I made the 90-mile drive to Walmart on Tuesday.

Still lots of snow, but thankfully not on the road.

I had been charged with buying deodorant for the boys. They told me what kind they wanted, and that is why I actually bought something that looked like this:

Hmmm.

I must note that when I got home and showed this to A., he said, "That's cool." So I guess Old Spice knows what they're doing.

I had a busy morning in the kitchen on Thursday.

Cookies, chocolate syrup, and Yorkshire Jane's green tomato chutney.

Also Aunt Belva's pickled beets, chicken broth, and pureed roasted tomatoes.

There are still some tomatoes in the box of ripening ones, but that's it for fresh garden produce.

There you have it! My life, snapshotted.