Complete with a trip to a petting zoo...and Aiden's first close encounter with a donkey!
Soon the Covered Bridge Festival...
Enjoyed a weekend out at the Farmer's Market recently, compliments of our newest business venture in my small college town. We finally have cab service for the weekends and evenings! Spent an absolutely perfect Fall morning soaking up the sights and sounds beginning with Cafe au Lait alfresco and a slice of Almost Home Tearoom's Strawberry Pizza (which most closely resembled fresh strawberry pie spread over a layer of cheesecake and atop a crushed pecan tea cookie crust). Sipping morning coffee while listening to live music.
And the air filled with the smells of Fall.
Sampling fresh apples...and buying a large jar of homemade apple butter. Booths filled with fresh vegetables and fruits and candles and CHOCOLATES ,
Yes...hand-dipped chocolates! Including an entirely delicious dark chocolate dipped caramel sprinkled with large flakes of sea salt. And clay whimsical yoga rabbit sculptures done by the same woman. I am so buying a meditating bunny sculpture!
Cakes and pies and cider and hand-crafted jewellery...drawings and paintings and wood crafts. Fresh flowers. Local Honey.
Surrounded by the strumming of a local acoustic guitarist playing "The Music of My Generation" CCR...Simon and Garfunkel...Neil Young.
It was perfect.
Off to Bloomington College Mall and yes, another day of mall-ratting with friends on Wednesday...where Loretta and Sharon and Tim and I found ourselves brunching at Applebee's on this
Which is even more awesome than it looks...complete food-gasm. Their Signature sirloin steak with a creamy garlic and Parm sauce over sautéed shrimp. Paired with sautéed mushrooms and mashed red cheese potatoes and a salad.
We revisited all the usual haunts Victoria Secret...Bath and Body...Yankee Candles (new scent: Caramel Pecan Pie) as well as plundering a few new ones. Loved the Stuff A Bear shop! Found earrings in Macy's that were tiny crystal pave bows, and a black fuzzy oversized sweater at Sears so soft it must have been knitted from kittens!
(okay...maybe not...but still incredibly soft...)
Toying with taking the leggings plunge this Fall with the slouch booths, infinity scarves and oversized sweaters. Still trying to shake the feeling that you are walking outside in long underwear...lol!
Picked up a thin silver chain off eBay and now am wearing Idgy's pendant.
She has finally convinced me to embrace turquoise and brown..and feels quite smug about it, I might say. It has only taken 9 years. It is growing on me. Realize the other day I had actually deliberately paired a light brown infinity crinkle scarf with a teal top...and smiled.
Knowing, even from Tennessee, she was nodding her approval.
No book to review this week...but I did manage to catch a really good movie. The Good Marriage (based on the Stephen King short story). Well cast. The plot loosely involving a character much like the BTK serial killer. The perfect couple...the attentive and adoring husband...and the wife, when she finally makes the connection that monsters don't live UNDER the bed....sometimes they are the person on the other side of it. Well done. The ending was modified from the original story...but surprisingly, it is more plausible...works better. Very suspenseful and entertaining.
From the book: Full Dark. No Stars.
Have a Wonderful Weekend!
