Indian Summer

The weather forecast for our area is temperatures in the low to mid thirties all week. I hope we have a nice, long Indian Summer after our very rainy start to summer. It was August before we got weather that was decent. Tomorrow is our annual Labour Picnic at the lake. We are getting some work done on the house on Tuesday though so we will have to make sure we are ready for the installer before we can head to the lake.
I always get the urge to organize, regroup and plan each September. I am sure it comes from twenty years of getting kids ready for school each fall. Sometimes I miss those punctuation marks in the year that having kids bring into our lives. Now just the seasons and holidays mark one week as different from another.

I am trying to decide what photos to use for my next layout. Since it is September I did think about doing Labour Day picnics or back to school photos. I will have to dig around and see what I have for photos. Also, I have to do a page about Miss Jillian`s first day of school as she starts kindergarten this year.

I received an email this week with this link to a yummy sounding recipe. http://www.citytv.com/cityline/food/recipes/article/151220--balsamic-glazed-onions
I like sauteed onions a lot and I love balsamic vinegar so I am going to give this one a try.

Last summer we went to the Baynes Lake Farmers` Market and really enjoyed it. They had a lot of vendors for a small area and we purchased a handful of things including a three panelled wood nativity scene and some chocolate bread from a bakery in Fernie. The bread was so yummy. It was not a sweet bread but rather a yeast bread.   I searched the internet and found this recipe: http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2010/04/chocolate-bread-recipe/ .
It looks pretty darn good so I would like to give it a try and see how it turns out.

Our church is having a garage sale to raise money for the food bank so I want to go through my house and find some donations and get started on some fall cleaning. I hope my husband realizes I am going to need his help with some of this work. Poor guy. Hopefully though he will enjoy having more space around the house.

I signed on to do a scrapbook layout a week and post it at Fiskateers.  I am looking forward to this challenge and I think some of my adult children are as well. It gives them a chance to finally see some of the photos of them showcased. Getting 52 layouts done in a year will be great too and that will not include what I get done at crops, etc. Pretty exciting to think about all those layouts being done!

It's also time to go and find the fall wreath, mantel decorations and centrepiece. What do you decorate with for fall?