Spooky Season is Here, Cozy Season is Coming!

The day I write this on its 92 F in my midwestern state in the US. It’s October, but it doesn’t get cold until Halloween! It is cold at night so our pool is now closed and ready to be covered. My last day to swim was September 24th!

The school year started and all the fun of my own children’s activities too. Hubs and I are loving watching our son play football and our daughter has been working on movie productions for college. She is wanting to pursue sound tech and is getting lots of jobs already! My class this year is very sweet and I’m having a great time with them. I’ve had some challenges with my Lupus, but I’m able to do most things I want to most days.

Strawberry Ice Cream for the End of Summer

I got the itch to decorate early and started putting up Halloween fun. September was fun with decorations going up, the addition of a new ice cream table and chairs to the library and 2 tea parties in the library! I had a “Strawberry Social” to have fun with my new sweet ice cream furniture I got with extra money working a second job this summer. (Oh but hey the economy is great right? Lol) Anyway, I was excited to have a reason to use the set and everyone had so much fun with the food and company!

Maintenance and Paint

There is always exterior maintenance to be done in the fall. When the heat of the summer finally breaks we prepare this old gal for another winter by checking all of our storm windows, doing exterior paint touch-ups, caulking, and reglazing window panes. This fall we will be painting the east side, so I’m doing all the window jobs now. Interior maintenance is easily done any time of the year, but exterior…

Halloween Decorations

Now the decoration! This is absolutely the best part of living here.

Scary things are always my favorite things. I’ve been drawn to them since childhood. Decorating this old house for Halloween is one of my favorite parts of living here. Actually, any decorating in this house is fun! I have to be careful not to clutter it up or go tacky with the decor because I still want the house to be front and center. She’s the queen of every season. The architecture and style of the house also guides me in decorating decisions, the house tells me what it wants! I listen and look because this house can tell me what looks good and what doesn’t. We are also having a Halloween party to have some more fun!

I love the quadruple holidays this time of year- with Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s all stacked and ready like favorite records waiting to be played and enjoyed. A lot of our Thanksgiving decor is out with the Halloween cause why not? All things fallish!

Soon it will be cozy time, time to turn off the humming window units, and light all the gas fires. Time to gather blankets and close drapes. Lighting candles, putting the electric candles in the windows, and watching campfires in the yard will be lovely after our hot weather breaks.

With Thanksgiving week will be yearly maintenance on our 1958 O’Keefe & Merritt gas range. For the cozy season is where she shines. Her pilot lights softly warming the kitchen. Her quiet warmth makes our very large north-facing kitchen a lovely cozy room. Christmas cookie baking will happen, gingerbread, rolls, biscuits, pizzas, lasagnas, brownies, she excels at it all.

What are you looking forward to with the upcoming season?

Cheers and candle-lights from Kansas Streer to you,

Love,

Jaime