signs of the times.......

i saw geese flying south this morning.

even though this makes me feel slightly melancholy, there is an undeniable excitement in the air that even a sworn summer lover like myself can't dispute.

the mornings are growing crisper, the days have grown shorter, and the pumpkin has become a pleasing orange.

corn on the cob, and ripe tomato have been declared 'sweet ambrosia'!

summer, i shall have to defer in honor of a most tantalizing autumn.....

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She's Really moving!

My younger sister is moving to my neck of the woods! She will be living with my mom, just down the lane from our home. How fun to have my own sister so close by!

Now if we could get our other sister to make the move............

maybe I should say 'if we could get our BIL to make the move' then our other sis would be here too.

:-D

I was visiting CT LOG CABIN this evening and she has posted a yummy looking recipe for PumPkin Fudge! You should hop over and have a look see.

http://logcabinprimitives.blogspot.com/

It is another of our favorite pleasures to be able to listen to the Galloway Highlanders They are very good, and the song of the pipes just calls me home.....

Only two more days left until we leave for Ft Bridger Wyoming. All of our children and grandchildren will be here this year! Rain or shine, ( and we always get both) we have the best time together!

Don't for get to try some PumPkin fudge! :-D

more of the same.....

This is the water man for lack of a proper name! For part of the time he is at Rendezvous he dresses as an 18th century man selling water. (his water is in bottles down in one of his buckets) He is all dirty and his clothes are raggedy. We know it's really rendezvous when we see the water seller! :-D

I love the following picture, 18th century and 21st century side by side. : D

for a good short video about ft bridger rendezvous.......... scroll up on the left side of my blog & click on the tepee.

Oh, and Becky over at Tennessee Ridge Primitives has invited us all over to have another Halloween freebie!!!!

http://extremeprimitives.blogspot.com/

remember she only has them on for a limited time.....:-D

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Bridger Boom

Just getting hyped to go!!!

whatcha workin on wednesday......

Well, like I said on Monday...this is crunch week here at the Stone House. We are getting ready for our annual trip to Ft Bridger for the yearly rendezvous! We camp and laugh and play cards and when the fort opens we go ( wearing our period proper clothing...) and participate in the rendezvous activities! Leslie, you should come and bring your family! Wyo is not too far from PA is it? (smiling )

So,

Today I am sewing DH some drop front knee britches! Out of linen. Hummm. These will be a different kettle of fish for him to wear. Not as heavy of fabric as Wranglers! LOL We play cards with my Mom this afternoon, and I am making traditional taco's for my pot luck dish. Later on I am hoping for time to run to my daughters and help her sew a linen "Robe 'a l' Anglaise a la plolnaise" Why is it that 18th century pattern instructions are almost unrecognizable to read as being English?

I was able to go to a TS is Idaho on our way home from our road trip, and found some fun treasures. I scooped these books up for a dollar each. They are old time life books. They have lots of colonial as well as the more "fluffy" (quoting LBC's word) country look. They have lots of helpful info. I was excited to find them.

Janene showed us her sweet clock this morning and I. AM. SO. IN. LOVE. WITH. IT. I am going to be on the look out for one that I can re-do similar to hers! If you haven't seen it, go have a look see!

http://janene-primitivelifestyle.blogspot.com/

Here is a little clock that I picked up at the TS. I think I may have a thing for clocks! lol

Not sure how I'll re-do it yet.

While we were tripping we stayed a night at my Sister's home, and she fed us the most incredible breakfast ever! We had our choice of yummy honey butter, or freshly made from freshly picked, Huckleberry jam , on hot scones, Hash browns, eggs ( for them that likes em) and these beautiful little steaks wrapped in Bacon, hot off the grill! The steaks were Buffalo! Never eaten a Buffalo steak before. It was sooooooo good! (ya, even LBC woofed his down) Thanks Anne! She sent us home with some Huckleberries, and a jar of her highly coveted pickled asparagus! Which we did manage to wait to open until the kids were all at our house. (and I did threaten all of their lives if they didn't save any until their dad got out of the shower....LOL) It goes pretty fast once opened!

See how pretty it looks in the jar!

Just got a reminder call to go tie quilts at the church......so I will most likely not get too much done on the knee britches this morning!

That's how it goes huh! :-D

LBC is loving school, and is signed up to try out for the school play, The Wizard Of Oz. Hope he gets a part. Have a great day and don't forget to visit Leslie

http://sweets-mycountryhome.blogspot.com/

and see what she as everyone is working on this Wednesday!

I had better get a move on it!

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