Hello fall!

This stack of boxes does not compare to the Christmas boxes, but emptying them still takes awhile.
I know fall has officially arrived and October has started, but I’m just now getting started on switching to fall decor. Down the hatch go the sunflowers that decked the house in August and September and up come boxes full of turning leaves, pumpkins and black cats.

We literally do send items through a hatch. We removed our old floor furnaces a couple years ago, but left the vents. The one in the entryway sits right above our storage room, so we simply lift the vent cover and bring up and down the boxes.

Mr. Kitty’s handsome black coat is especially appropriate in this month.

Opening up the fall/Halloween boxes is always like finding old friends again. I usually forget some of what’s in there during the months they are in storage, old friends like the beautiful table runner my friend Esther made for me several years ago.
Fall colors complement our house’s old, dark, wide woodwork about as well as any season’s colors do. I believe our house is at its most beautiful in the fall and at Christmas.

So bring on the jack o’lanterns! Maybe this year I’ll actually get Mr. Black Kitty to pose with them. Wouldn’t that be a great addition to our decorations next year?