Dog Stockings

Thanksgiving

The kitchen has scrumptious aromas,
The dining room looks oh, so fine,
Decorations with pilgrims and turkeys,
And now we are ready to dine! - Joanna Fuchs

Cranberry Salad

She changes cranberries to sauce

And meats to stews and stews to broths;

And when she mixes gingerbread

It turns into a man instead

With frosting collar ’round his throat

And raisin buttons down his coat. - Rowena Bastin Bennett

Scarf

Here is the scarf

we left years ago like a bookmark,

meaning to return the next day,

having just turned our heads

toward a noise in the bushes,

toward the dinnerbell in the distance,

toward what we knew and did not know

we knew, in the spreading twilight

that returns changed to a changed place. - Ted Kooser

Christmas Mailbox Tutorial Day 6

Attach all the goodies, tie a big bow, and hang it on your mailbox.  The battery pack for the lights attached under the mailbox on my mailbox. DO NOT display until after Thanksgiving!

Christmas Mailbox Tutorial Day 5

Get some pine picks, some berries, or whatever you like.

Christmas Mailbox Tutorial Day 4

If you want a lighted decoration, get a set of indoor/outdoor battery powered lights.  This set turns on and off automatically.

Christmas Mailbox Tutorial Day 3

It will look something like this when you are done bending.

Christmas Mailbox Tutorial Day 2

Take it to the mailbox and bend it around the box. 

Christmas Mailbox Tutorial Day 1

 Start with an artificial pine "centerpiece."  Fluff up the limbs.  Start while your Thanksgiving decorations are still up.

Ain't Hungry No More

To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup. - Laurie Colwin

Cornucopia

The year has turned its circle,
The seasons come and go.
The harvest all is gathered in
And chilly north winds blow. - Unknown

Halloween

 

Fear not that sound like wind in the trees:
It is only their call that comes on the breeze;
Fear not the shudder that seems to pass:
It is only the tread of their feet on the grass;
Fear not the drip of the bough as you stoop:
It is only the touch of their hands that grope —
For the year’s on the turn, and it’s All Souls’ night,
When the dead can yearn and the dead can smite. - Edith Wharton

Dandelion

Then I’ll be old Silverhead; for, as I grow old,
All my shining hair will be white instead of gold. - Emilie Poulsson

I Love Fall

The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry's cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town. - Emily Dickinson

One Clay Soldier

I was but fifteen when I left my friends For distant climes to fight our Country's foe, And now I'm eighty—back for the first time To see the home I left so long ago. - Unknown

Fall Moon

The crescent Moon desired to mount on high.
Its slanting course ne'er grew to orbéd sway.
A little while it peered above the Hill;
Then lost in cloudy Sunset passed away. - Du Fu

Purple Scarf

The wind, for a moment,
set me down with ballet grace.
I lit upon the cold steel spokes
striking out from the wheel
like the arms of great Kali. - Charles Jensen

One Last Cone

The autumn wind and the autumn rain,
But they nod and bloom the while,
And when the wind and the rain are past
Look out with a quiet smile, - Eliza Allen Starr

Fall Fruit

At the same time I stand exposed
Here on the bush of the globe,
A newly-naked berry of flesh
For the stars to probe. - D. H. Lawrence