Fall Projects and a Birthday Wish

Today and tomorrow is my dear friend Hoss' 75th Birthday. Yes, he gets to have 2 birthdays. I was thinking about how long 75 years is: 3/4th of a century 7 1/2 decades 900 months 3,913 weeks 27,394 days 657,462 hours 39,447,728 minutes 2,366,863,682 seconds With all the candles on his birthday cake we could boil a cup of water! 8.69 ounces to be exact. His birthday tree is the Hazelnut Tree which says this about him:

Extraordinarily Charming, undemanding, very understanding, knows how to make an impression, active fighter for social cause, popular, moody and capricious lover, honest and tolerant partner, precise sense of judgement

I don't know about you but I think this description suits him to a T. Please go over and give him great big birthday wishes. He is a busy man so put his birthday presents on the table, the cake in the kitchen and the beer in the refrigerator -no cheap beer people, only the best for my buddy, Hoss. Text version of the audiolog I would post if I could sing:

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday, dear Gene! Happy Birthday to you! -And many moooooore!

Go here to see my buddy dancing on his birthday. Happy Birthday, Gene!!! ******* Here are a few of my projects I am very slowly starting and trying to finish for fall. This wreath hangs on the side door. We use this entrance to the house from the driveway. Everyone comes in through this door and into the kitchen to enter the house. I made this wreath out of really cheap findings at Walmart. Maybe $12 total to make. I like that much better than some of the $50 wreaths I have seen. I have another wreath I made last fall for the front door. It is in the attic. In a box. We haven't found it yet. I wonder if we will ever unpack all the boxes we moved in with. I am thinking the box it is in got mixed in with all of my Christmas decorations. Oh, No! There are at least 40 of those boxes! I planted these mums. I love orange and red mums and hate those bright yellow ones. I need some pumpkins and hay and turkies to finish out my decor. This is my house in October. If not for the mums it looks the same as August. Cool weather has finally come to Virginia this week. Our morning lows are creeping into the 40's and the daily highs are in the 60's and 70's. It was down right chilly yesterday afternoon! I had opened the upstairs windows and the downstairs doors to let the breeze blow through and freshen the house -I hate a closed in smell from running a/c all summer. By 5:30 we all had chill bumps and Miss HotNature herself (Gracie) went looking for her slippers and sweat pants. If the temperature drops a little more we'll be able to start a fire in the new fireplace insert! I find that so exciting! P.S. I am updating my reading log today! I have found some great new reads! Or they found me first and I went to check them out and stayed.