Weekend Recap on Monday....

We have had a nice weekend!!  Not too busy with plenty of time to loaf around being lazy. Perfect.

Friday evening we went out to dinner with friends, Helen and Cheryl, to celebrate Cheryl's 60th birthday.  One of the biggies.  She chose Reececliff (local diner) so we met them there at 6:00 and had a good meal and conversation.  They came to our place afterward for cake and ice cream. (Helen is feeling much better, by the way.)

Saturday morning was lazy with nothing on the calendar.  Joe worked on cleaning up his office a bit.  He finally (FINALLY) sent letters out to his clients that he is done.retired.for good this time.  He told me he feels relief knowing he won't have 40 tax returns to do after the first of the year.  Forty is down from over 100, but still too much.  He kept only a few folks who are easy to work with (and pay on time!).  I'm happy for him (and me too!).

While he did that, and since we didn't get to go to Mazarro's on Friday, I got the Pizzelle iron out and made Joe some Italian cookies....

He told me mine are better than the ones we buy at Mazarro's.  LOL....good man!

Saturday, late afternoon, we got a call from our soon-to-be new neighbors, Al & Theresa.  They were working at the new house (here in Mas Verde) and wanted to know if we wanted to go out to eat with them around 5:00.  We said of course and went over there a little early so we could see their new home.  It is smaller than ours but is a very cute two bedroom/two bath home.  New paint and new floors will make it theirs!  Dinner was fun.  We went to Cheddars and agreed that we would get to eat out together more often when they get moved in this coming weekend.

Sunday was another lazy morning and that continued to the afternoon.  We both puttered around a bit here and there but spent most of the day watching Red Zone football.  Joe hasn't stopped watching, but we were happy to read that VPOTUS Pense walked out on one of the games when a few of the players took a knee in protest to the National Anthem and our Flag.  The players are being so stupid. Enough of the disrespect. Enough.

When I sit in my chair and get my computer out lately, Vinny and Lucy have to take turns with me so they can watch the birds and squirrels videos.  I love how they get so into it. I have to put a magazine over the keyboard to keep them from stepping all over the keys and wrecking havoc with the video!

 Several of my friends here have been posting photos of fall decorations so I got these pictures to share of a few things around our house....

 Dining room table centerpiece.

Wreath on the front door. 

 Cute doo-dad I found at Dollar General.

 My only Halloween decorations...

My glass pumpkin by glass artist Susan Gott.

We have several pieces done by her. You can visit her website HERE.

And lastly.... it was actually cool enough on Saturday morning to have the back door open (to the carport).  Vinny and Lucy were quite interested.....

I am excited that we will have blogging friend Lynda and her hubby visiting today!  They will arrive around 10:00.  We have a visit to the Museum on the schedule.  The Museum is closed to the public on Mondays but I made a phone call to make sure I still have back-door privileges and was assured that I did. A tour of Lakeland and lunch at Crispers are also on the schedule.  Hoping they enjoy the day here!!

Wishing you a good Monday and week ahead!  Thanks for the visit!  Peace & hugs.