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Watching my one year old niece say hi and bye! And her laugh! She laughs like Ernie from the Sesame Street.
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Shout to t h e Lord
Darlene Zchech
My Jesus, my Savior
Lord, there is none like You
All of my days, I want to praise
The wonders of Your mighty love
My comfort, my shelter
Tower of refuge and strength
Let every breath, all that I am
Never cease to worship You
Shout to the Lord, all the earth, let us sing
Power and majesty, praise to the King
Mountains bow down and the seas will roar
At the sound of Your name
I sing for joy at the work of Your hands
Forever I'll love You, forever I'll stand
Nothing compares to the promise I have in You
My Jesus, my Savior
Lord, there is none like You
All of my days, I want to praise
The wonders of Your mighty love
My comfort, my shelter
Tower of refuge and strength
Let every breath, all that I am
Never cease to worship You
Shout to the Lord, all the earth, let us sing
Power and majesty, praise to the King
Mountains bow down and the seas will roar
At the sound of Your name
I sing for joy at the work of Your hands
Forever I'll love You, forever I'll stand
Nothing compares to the promise I have
Shout to the Lord, all the earth, let us sing
Power and majesty, praise to the King
Mountains bow down and the seas will roar
At the sound of Your name
I sing for joy at the work of Your hands
Forever I'll love You, forever I'll stand
Nothing compares to the promise I have in You
Nothing compares to the promise I have in You
Nothing compares to the promise I have in You
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Just got back from a week with famiy and mom and Aunt yesterday. Today I was loving getting out to run errands by myself for 3 hours! Yippee!!
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Loving my coffee this morning. ☕️
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A new T.V. show has the characteristics and behaviors of an adult person with autism down pretty closely.
"The Good Doctor" started Monday. A young doctor with autism and savant syndrome.
Created by the producers of House, M.D.

Somehow, I feel validated...
He leaves an emergency TO GO FIND THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE JOB.
CANNOT FOLLOW THE RULES and does not forsee trouble coming when asking security for a knife, then taking the knife........FORCEFULLY PUSHING THROUGH.....IN AN AIRPORT.

He is ALWAYS GOING TO BE LATE for something...his job interview at the hospital.

But then, HOW CAN YOU STAY ANGRY at him for stopping to save a life?

In the interview, takes a "very loooong time to formulate his answer."

It may become a favorite.
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Feeling of crisp fall air. Sometime after a hot summer, it's nice to feel that coolness.
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Love Trader Joe's, too. Love fall food (homemade, legit) but not so keen on the season itself. The mercurial weather works my last nerve; and each day is one step closer to winter. BLECH.

Also aggravated beyond belief at scarecrow-and-pumpkin-spice everything dominating the stores in mid-to-late August. Big retail and consumer craziness is polluting things that many of us (try to) enjoy on a reasonable timetable.

But back to favorite things! My gal pals are the best. So many different personalities and conversation styles. I treasure them all. They seem pretty keen on me, too! Such a blessing. 
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The sun has gone to bed and so must I
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A favorite thing of mine is a cool rain, listening to the wind in the trees. Watching the lightening off in the distance just makes me want to wrap up in a soft warm blanket and read.
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One of my favorite things is going for a walk with my dog and finding things like flowers,different grasses,tiny green peppers,pretty leaves,things that grow on trees,twigs and such and then we bring our collection inside and give it to the kittens and they just Love it,every little thing is neat to them.
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A picture of my one year niece looking like the Michelin Tire man.:-) And seeing my nephew enjoy being at a trampoline park.
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Pandora on my Roku box.
Best ever!
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Pandora
Free music from nearly any genre you can imagine
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Nothing set off the motion detector last night, but there was a cute bunny hopping around down the street. I have got to get out more and have a life!
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Did you see raccoons?? Inquiring minds want to know, lol!!
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Staying up late to see if the disturbance last night was really a racoon, 2-3 racoons, or something else. When the motion detector goes on at 3:30 a.m., I will see.   zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

My f a v o r i t e thing: Received jitterbug phone, my phone, all mine, and what a relief to take a step away towards greater independence!
Appreciated more for what it does not have! No voicemail, no texting, not signed up for 5 Star, it just has big numbers, and only 3 people have the phone number!
Hubs is rolling his eyes, laughing, pouting because I didn't let him set it up or use texting.
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Apples, pumpkins and autumn! I did see online the apple shed sells 1/4 bushels (18) apples you can mix varieties for $21.

Yes GA, we moved from California to Idaho in late June. I will have to look for some places here with apples.

Wreaths are a welcome sign of autumn! I love the mini pumpkins orange and white. We have a rustic red truck I will fill the back up with about 4 of the mini pumpkins and they last a long time indoors. Dollar tree has styrofoam pumpkins you could easily use on a wreath.
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Garden Artist!
You missed the moving?
I will let all those with recent new home purchases tell you!

Can't we order apples online from people like harriet and davide?
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My favorite apple now is Honey Crisp.
Visiting Apple orchards and farms sounds lovely.
Hubs, I said, "Can we find an Apple Event nearby and go?

Hubs said, "There was an Apple Event on Tuesday". (Silicone Valley style.) Announcing the new I-phone.

Guess my speed is trader joes in their electric cart today.
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Too early for Spies yet, they are a Fall apple. My absolute favourite is mutsu (crispin), also a late apple. I regret that I can't find any summer apples anymore, there is nothing like applesauce made from those first yellow harvest apples, or using them in a dutch apple pie. Of course since I am living on my own I don't make pies at all any more. My mom made wonderful pies, not at all like the double crusted ones you buy in the supermarket but lovely open top or lattice pies with fruit and custard: peach, cherry, rhubarb, plum, apple. Yum!
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Glad, what are your favorite interests in books? Fiction? Nonfiction? Favorite authors? Sounds like you're pretty thorough with your book inventory.

Ever read any of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books?

Sharyn, are you moving from California? You've described the apple season so well; I too love those fresh fragrances.

One really great grocery store recently was acquired by Krogers, which could have been clever in adapting it to a specialty store. But all the stores were shut down.

That's the only store at which I could find Northern Spies, which my mother always used for baking apple pies and apple turnovers. Spies just aren't carried by the other supermarkets.

Guess I'll have to take a trip to a cider mill to get some.
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Send, I haven't been to Trader Joe's in years! I recall when one opened in my sister's area and had a wonderful free sampling, with enough samples for a meal. One was the best cranberry sauce/relish I've ever had. It was simple, with just cranberries and oranges, and something else which I've forgotten. For years I've planned to make that during cranberry season.

I don't even remember if TJ had pumpkin butter, but I'll try it. I'm thinking also that if I find a good recipe, I can make it. Imagine the fragrance of pumpkin puree, pumpkin butter, pumpkin muffins and anything else pumpkin wafting through the house on a chilly day.

I saw a pumpkin only recipe magazine at the grocery store and managed to only pick it up a few times and look at it before the recipe section of my memory reminded me that I have too many recipe books already.

Pumpkins (and gourds) are already in the stores. They change and highlight the produce aisles with their bright orange colors. Reminds me that maybe today will be the day to rummage around in the studio and find some silk fall leaves to make a wreath, since I've managed to misplace the one I made several years ago which I really liked.

And since I'm on a roll this morning, I'll share what made the wreath so special. I used saved popsicle sticks to make a fence, then glued on a black cat. Little pumpkins were either glued or stuck into the wreath at the base of the fence. I had a lot of fun designing that simple wreath.

And I really, really liked that wreath. I just wish I knew what I did with it. I might have to get out all my dozens of boxes of quilt material to look for it. Going through quilting material is a real challenge - my mind starts spinning with new ideas that I'll never implement.
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The smell of bacon cooking in the morning. The sound of soft gentle rain as leaves flutter to the ground and a puppy pouncing on the pile of leaves running in circles in the crisp morning air. I love going to apple farms in the autumn. A warehouse full of bins of different varieties of apples, paragon, delicious, pink ladies, etc., the smell of all those apples. They always have fresh baked apple pies and cider for sale too. I shall miss apple hill in California, not just the apples but the drive is so pretty winding in and around the hills with autumn colors.
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I still love to see the moon up in the daytime sky. I don't think I can ever get tired of it. I prefer to see it in the daytime than at night.

Currently my favorite thing is finding books of authors that I'm collecting as a set to read - going on sale at $0.99 or free. My heart always hops a little when I see it's 100% discount.... I was reading the Amazon forum when I learned something very valuable from a poster. She said that she would put all the books she's interested in getting in her Wishlist. And then she will check it daily to see if it goes on sale..I've been slowly going through my Book Lists (authors alphabetically in black ink, Series name in purple ink, books I have in blue ink, books I need to buy in red ink and how much it costs.)... I've been slowly adding the red ink books in my wish lists (currently only 4 -wishlist 1, wishlist 2, wishlist 3,...) I have been having great success in getting free ebooks on a lot of my wish lists.
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GardenArtist-in the fall-when and if it ever arrives for real-trader Joes has pumpkin butter to put on top of tasteless scones.
Cwillie-You made it awake today-hoping you feel better. If the cupcakes are small, they go down easier, icing coverage overall is greater, imo. Have some!
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CWilllie, absolutely! One mustn't suffer because the cupcakes are small.
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Mmmm, mini cupcakes. Of course they're so small you get to have more than one, right?
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CDN, I'm always glad when someone is made happy!

A few weeks ago I indulgded and bought some little mini cupcakes - I haven't been baking much b/c of time constraints. They were carrot cake, with I think a whipped cream frosting. Carrot cake has always been a family favorite. They're delicious! The spice scent is so aromatic that I feel good just inhaling the odor before even eating them.

Ymmmmmm!
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Hi GardenArtist,

I love your list! It was a great pick me up today.

Thank you. Me, too. I love cupcakes and buttercream frosting. So good. It was me that went to the cooking class with broiled tofu!:-) If you can believe it, it wasn't too bad. LOL
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P.S to CDN Reader - I love buttercream frosting!

P.S. to CWillie - broiled tofu? Um, I think I'll be polite and refrain from commenting!
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