Some slight wind gusts, but we had worse last week.
It was just dark and cool and rainy all day.
I love a good rainy day, every so often. I love lamplight on a rainy day. And turning the lamp off, pulling a blankey over me and napping the afternoon away in the recliner. Tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches for supper.
**My family in Florida is fine. I don't think the Hurricane was as "catastrophic" as they were thinking it would be. More like, just a regular bad hurricane.
September arrived, and I was able to do my Fall mantel decorating.
Being that it's technically still Summer until September 22nd, and end of Summer is historically considered Harvest Season, I wanted to go more for a Harvest theme, than Fall/Autumn.
Apples are a main part of my harvest decor, on account of my Dad has an apple orchard.
Well, a fruit orchard, also with some Peach, Plum, Pear, and Cherry trees, Blueberry bushes, and Grapes and Muscadine vines.
But except for the grapes and muscadines, the rest is more Spring & Summer harvest. End of Summer and Fall is apple season.
I didn't raise any corn myself this year, but my cousin did, and invited us to come pick some. We picked nearly 200 ears!
Most of it I blanched and put in the freezer...some I de-cobbed and dehydrated. I need to test re-hydrating and cooking and seeing how we like that. I'd like to get more into dehydrating than freezing, but I'm not sure if I can dehydrate and re-hydrate corn on the cob. The boys love corn on the cob.
I hung a few ears up on my clothesline to dry for decor, but I guess it's too humid here and the shucks got moldy. Next time I'll use my dehydrator or oven.
I had this little circle of Bittersweet I kept trying to use a wreath, or something, but it never looked right. Eventually it occurred to me that it might look good with a pillar candle in it.
I didn't have a pillar candle, and I'm trying not to buy anything, so I wanted to use what I had. What I had was a pint jar of apple butter. No one has noticed it's not actually a brown pillar candle.
I like to display my Pyrex mixing (serving) bowls as a nod to my Grandmother/s. Both farm girls, and these bowls were modern in their kitchens, where they would cook up big, delicious suppers including bowls of things like garden fresh green beans, creamed corn, fried okra, etc.
I also didn't (try to) grow any pumpkins this year. I have tried to grow pumpkins several years in the past, and something always went wrong and they never produced well, or at all.
I had planned to try again this year, but just never got around to it. I'm not giving up, though, I plan to try next year. Eventually I'll be able to grow pumpkins. Sometimes it just takes me a few tries.
The jars of dried apples are some I dehydrated. They keep a long time in a canning jar.
I just dressed up the tops of the jars with some red gingham material I already had and some green jute twine from the Dollar Tree.
The lamp in the basket was a brass and amber glass lamp I spray painted black.
In my mind, the black and amber glass looked a lot better together. I don't like how it turned out, but I'm not sure what color to re-paint it to make it look better.
It's also cotton-picking time in Georgia.
Thanks to the internet, and a or some really creative-minded people, I was able to make my own cotton boles using sticks from the yard, cotton balls, and pine cones.
One of my little "helpers", lol.
The rusty canning ring pumpkin I made last year (or maybe the year before). The 9 and 7 burlap-covered-wood numbers I found on clearance for 48¢ each at Micheal's, or maybe Hobby Lobby, can't remember.
The old window I had made as a key hanger. I sewed a little valance and hung it with twine, and covered the backside in lacey material. I had intended to cut a vinyl quote to put on it, but haven't gotten around to it. There are hooks across the bottom for hanging keys on.
It used to hang on the wall by the door, but was taken down to work on the faux planking, and hadn't gotten hung back up yet.
The little apples (package of 8 found at a thrift store for 50¢) is (on a saucer) in a vintage Jadeite Fire King measuring bowl.
Stacked jars of cinnamon-candy apple jelly, and a set of apple salt and pepper shakers.
I thought it needed a Scarecrow, which I thought I had, but couldn't seem to locate in my Holiday bins, so I picked these, and the Pumpkin/Harvest sign up at Dollar Tree.
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