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Mr. SP’s mom died unexpectedly yesterday. She was 73. We are so sad.

Friday night we attended a dinner/dance to benefit the American Cancer Society. This charity is one that we like to support because I lost my father to lung cancer almost twelve years ago. The event was held in a hanger at the airport. They had a private plane in the hanger that couples could pose…

I harvested more Bittersweet on a run this week. I couldn’t resist. It is so pretty and just says fall to me. The harvest: How I used it – I wish I could do fancy arrangements like Donna! I had a good time playing around with the new decorations that I bought over the weekend…

It is always so good to get out of town. We had a great weekend at the beach. We had terrific weather – blue skies, sunny, with temperatures around 70 degrees. Saturday morning started with breakfast at Sam and Omie’s. If you visit the Outer Banks, try Sam and Omie’s. The atmosphere is great and…

Along one of my trail runs grows a patch of Bittersweet. I watch this all fall and look forward to harvesting some to take home. The problem is that the Bittersweet grows deep in the woods and it requires me running about a mile and a half carrying it. I feel a little silly running…

Most all of us buy beautiful gourds to use in decorating our homes for fall. Did you know that you can dry them and use them over and over? They won’t have the same brilliant fall colors, but they retain their shape and a little bit of the original color. I do this every year…

If you’ve read my blog for a while, then you know that Mr. SP and I love to go to the lake. We have it in our minds that it would be nice to own a lake house or to find a lot to build a house in the very distant future. Mr. SP loves…

Crap. What have I gotten myself into? Today I have to get on the stage in front of 700+ middle school students to lead our first pep rally of the year. I got suckered into doing this because no one else would do it. I hope I don’t accidentally cuss or fall down or say…

Please join me in welcoming my friend, Donna, to the blogging world. Donna designs the most gorgeous silk flower arrangements. If I lived closer to her, I would certainly be one of her best customers. Check out her new blog, Designs on 47th Street.

I bought this assortment of pumpkins and gourds at Michael’s on sale for a little over a dollar per bag. My original thought was to save them for next year to use in glass hurricanes or in apothecary jars. I saw my grandmother’s old bundt cake pan in my cabinet and thought that the pumpkins…

The ghost tour was a lot of fun, but I’ll have to say that I enjoyed looking at the houses more than hearing the stories. This year most of the ghost stories were from houses other than the ones on the walk. These houses are along Rivermont Avenue which is one of America’s first planned…