Happy birthday to my first-born grandson – Peyton Matthew! He’s grown up so quickly – has a job and a steady girlfriend (Hi, Izzy!!) and heading on a good path. Love you Peyton!!! Happy 20!
So here are two of the things I see out my window in the mornings when I get up. The colorful fall flag, and also the ground cover at the bottom of the driveway has turned red this year. I don’t remember that from other years – normally it stays green. But that is my mornings!
Fall flag
Ground cover
Pumpkins on the porch – left over from the tea.
Here we go with the pictures from the tea. Friday a BUNCH of ladies came out to set up and lay place settings for the tables, organize the serving dishes, and decorate. It took us all morning and maintenance hadn’t been as organized as we normally like. Be we got it! Becky’s decorating team did a great job. Everything looked wonderful.
Basic table setup.
Following are decorations:
Highboy
Dining room mantle
Tea table
Tea table
Curio
The little purple Amish outfit belongs to me.
Front foyer
Foyer
Phonograph
Parlor mantle – it’s 5 O’clock somewhere!
Parlor library table
Parlor – dresser. Doll on chair belongs to me.
Parlor – corner table.
Front entranced to parlor
Becky and Kelly filling vases with fresh flowers.
Parlor fireplace.
Saturday the scullery (kitchen help) were there in plenty of time to prep the food, plate it, and have the servers carry the plates to the tables. Roxane and her crew prepared and steeped the tea and served it. Our tea always gets good reviews! We had scones, sugar frosted grapes, and ‘acorns’ on the top tier, three different sandwiches in the middle, and sweets on the bottom. My favorite sweet was the chocolate frosted pumpkin cake, and we had snickerdoodle biscotti and mini apple tarts as well. All delicious!
Dining room and tea table.
Prepping sandwiches
Plated
We were there until a little after 4pm so it was a long day of being on our feet. Most of us didn’t set down at all. But we did get to eat the leftovers!
Scullery – with a few missing. Ladies in white and black were servers.
SCRIPTURE of the DAY:
PEANUTS?
TOMORROW November 4th is:
National Candy Day; National Chicken Lady Day; National Easy Bake Oven Day; Election Day; Roast Dinner Day; Use your Common Sense Day.
ANY day is candy day, really. I will vote – for sure. I try to always use common sense – that’s just common sense….. God bless.
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