Yesterday, we outdid ourselves with home-keeping. This coming Friday, we’re entertaining family and friends for Officer Ginger’s big Three-O, and this is the first time most of my Kentucky family will have visited since we moved into this house five years ago. So while we’re fairly tidy and organized in an everyday sort of way, we’re also comfortable with our “nests” of books and magazines and crosswords and stuff. And we’re generally okay with fingerprints on cabinets, and a little dust here and there. But looking at home through the lenses of guests, we buckled down and did some fall cleaning. Garage organized, check. Pantry controlled, check. Air conditioners out, check. Grout bleached, check. Mums planted, check. Black-eyed Susans deadheaded, check. It was a good day. And we were happy to have it all done before the weather turned cold and rainy on Sunday, as predicted.
Oh look! The weather reporters were wrong! So, having accomplished such a lot on Saturday, today we carped the diem and took Kitten for a drive (she’s my cute little convertible that I named after Ann Margret, the sexiest girl on the planet). We picked out pumpkins at the Chalet, for the party decorations. And we had lunch on the patio at Hackney’s on Harms, which is the original one founded back in the 1930s. It was so perfect that the bees even left us alone.
Sigh. This day was dessert. A cherry on top of autumn.
ginnygram 