Late October starts my looking forward to Christmas. As a former elementary teacher, my mind moves through the year from one seasonal bulletin board to the next. By now I have things refined so that Reformation Day leads into the season of harvest and Thanksgiving, followed by Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. There is a sort of building that I think extends in my mind from the work of the Reformers that the Puritans and Pilgrims based some of their beliefs on, up through a Biblical understanding of Christ's coming.
I am offering a photo tour of early November at our place. :)
We received this unique Reformation Day greeting, now hung on a kitchen cabinet (quite an honorary position). It came anonymously ~ unsigned and even unpostmarked ~ though I doubt it would take us 95 guesses to come up with the sender.
Here are some of our family set of turkey handprints lining a stairwell. It's fun getting these out to see how everyone's grown since they were first made.
And here are my fun Thanksgiving shakers. Miss Dog Lover was just telling Mr Music that the salt shaker is a girl and the pepper one is a boy. Let's not go into any actual turkey anatomy, OK? They are allowed to kiss on our table but everyone knows things may not go beyond that. Decorum.
Here is our copy of Of Plymouth Plantation, an ear of the corn we grew this summer which startled us with its purple-ness, and a very lovely cornucopia we received as a wedding gift. Please disregard the hairball. It has been removed since I uploaded the photo and noticed it. But just so you know, we are thankful for hair.
And the last stop on this tour is to say hello to the turkeys: Blessings and Bradford. They can rest secure in the knowledge that their fiberfill stuffing will not end up on our table in any capacity involving knife and fork.
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Have a happy holiday season! I loved that Reformation Day poster. Oh, and thanks so much for your kind words last week about my strange and multiple blessings. You brought a smile to my face.
OK, you have roused me to do better...my special items are still in a box in the basement... I will try to get them out today! I very much enjoyed seeing your things!
The Chickadeefeeder
