Honestly…

Three beautiful things from last week:

1. The autumn colors at Walter Pierce almost make up for not making it in time to play pickup one last time there this year.

2. After hanging out with a friend’s children for a while when their daycare was closed for Veterans Day, I moseyed over to Old Town for a bit and got to start my #TBTBSanta shopping.

3. Every month brings specific specialty baked goods to the farmers market and November is cranberry pecan bread. Such a delicious breakfast with a cuppa!

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world recently?

Behind again…

Here are three beautiful things from my past week:

1. The blue wave after this year’s Election Day

2. A group dressed as characters from The Wizard of Oz and dogs dressed up as not dogs on Halloween

3. Trivia with John before he heads off to Texas (we came in third)

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?

Sometimes I like to share what I hope the weekend ahead holds, if only so I can keep track of what I’d like to do when my mind goes blank. I never feel pressure to check everything off, so some things end up on there that probably I won’t get to, but wouldn’t it be nice if I did?

• Play volleyball
• Carve a jack o’lantern
• Hand out (and munch on) Halloween candy
• Watch the historic game 7 of the WNBA finals AND It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
• Change our sheets
• Switch out the litter box liner
• Bake something apple-y
• Pick up the latest Barbara Kingsolver novel at the library
• Drop off compost
• Write an Into the Stacks post for whatever spring month needs to be recorded next
• Order a new pair of sneakers
• Finish a book
• Sleep an extra hour

How about you? What are you hoping your weekend includes?

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. The last couple practices of the season are officially in the books

2. Three of the sixth graders on my practice squad also were on the soccer team, and they won the league championship. Their coach invited me to watch their playoff run, so I made it to the semis and finals this week.

3. Our garden has had a central compost heap as long as I’ve gardened there. It used to get tended more vigorously, but since the pandemic, it’s suffered a bit. Periodically, rats have moved in, and we’ve struggled with how to combat that. (The gigantic rat snake that treated it as a snack counter definitely helped.) This summer, it started to come apart and the maintenance manager and I decided we would take it down as our fall cleanup project. By noon on Sunday, we’d hauled off the top layers and the supports and had raked the usable compost into the area that we hope to convert into new plots next year. We will invest in a rotating contained compost bin in the spring, but this is the first big project we’ve done in ages, and it felt good to see the first step accomplished in what will help change the garden moving forward.

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. Getting to tell all eleven girls on my playing squad how proud I was of each of them after our final game of the season

2. Meeting my friend Katie’s baby

3. When I saw Sofi Tukker was coming to D.C., I wanted to go, but the tickets were pricey. When they dropped standing room only tickets a couple months later, I snapped up a pair for Rudi and me. The show turned out to be amazing, with the entire crowd dancing, including the staff doing security and clean-up.

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. Spending a weekend with my folks

2. The girls following each other to save a play

3. Fall foliage in Connecticut (it’s not really turning down here much yet)

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?