Good morning I hope you're well today is a glorious fall day here it's about 50 degrees
we got a cold front which is such a novelty for us Floridians so we are soaking it up have had
the windows open all day letting in the crisp air and I started up the day with a long walk
with Palmer which was really refreshing I took my coffee cup so I could stay nice and warm it
was really nice and then I harvested some lettuce which oh it's just so exciting I'm
so thankful that the lettuce seeds we planted are doing so well I am still trying to figure
out the perfect method for keeping the lettuce leaves crisp once I harvest them and wash them
so I'm still working on that but hopefully we'll have a couple more months to figure that out and
enjoy the lettuce Harvest and what else oh I've just been in my office doing some computer work
I have a video to finish editing for tomorrow so we'll work on that for a bit but it's just
gonna be a really cozy day at home enjoying this gorgeous weather and I do plan to bake a soup
tonight or bake a soup cook a soup tonight did I tell you about my banana my pumpkin bread I made
pumpkin bread this morning which was I've been craving it for quite some time I made it about
a month ago at the beginning of the season and this is my favorite recipe I'll link it
in the description I do tweak the recipe a little bit I only make one loaf instead of
two loaves most of the time and then I also do a little less of the sugar that it calls
for I do I believe it calls for a full cup but I only do like 3 4 of a cup or half of a cup and
then I add dark chocolate chips it's incredibly scrumptious and I've been munching on that all day
and later this evening once you wrap up work I do have a home project I would love to get done
so I'll explain that later and then hopefully we'll have a bonfire tonight in the backyard I
ordered a fire pit and it's supposed to arrive today which is so timely with this weather I've
been wanting a fire pit for some time that you can actually burn wood at not a gas one I don't
have a well we have this fireplace but obviously a little different so hopefully we'll be able to
put that together and enjoy that this evening but I'm excited to spend time with you all foreign
foreign we're putting our latte art making skills to the test for today's coffee time
if you didn't see we took a kind of improvised coffee class or latte art class while we were
visiting New York City and we've been trying our best to take the tips that we learned and apply
them at home but we are using a whole different machine than we used for the class so there
certainly is a learning curve and some trial and error how are you feeling about today's latte art
it's not so good the last couple of days they've been a fail yeah we need Emily to teach us again
I feel pretty good I feel like we've learned some things and
we're gonna we're gonna improve we're gonna improve to try we're gonna try
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better baby steps daily Improvement not all something different I don't know we're gonna
keep practicing the latte art but at this point I feel like our biggest learning curve is getting
the right consistency of the milk and I also think it might have something to do with how
we're pulling our espresso shot so still gonna take some trial and error but I feel better about
it we're getting closer and I also just received the cutest package in the mail this is a custom
dog tumbler by wag tails I'm so in love with it it is so cute as I was unboxing it I showed
Palmer and he kept wagging his tail like crazy it's like he knew that it was something involving
him it's so precious I can't wait to sip out of this cup every single day I I wasn't sure because
I knew this was coming in the mail and I was so excited about it but I think it was supposed to
come a few months ago but my neighbors they actually just came by to deliver a couple
packages themselves because they it got delivered to the wrong mailbox it wasn't even their mailbox
it was in like a shared mailbox kind of thing and I had no idea it was in there I didn't have a key
in our mailbox or anything like that so I'm so thankful they found the package and brought it
over that was really sweet of them because this is quite precious to me it's so so adorable and
then I also speaking of cups I also ordered beef cups from our place which they're actually having
a sale currently I think the day that I post this Vlog will be the last day of the sale but
I figured I would show them because this is the company that I have that makes my favorite pan
and pot I'll show you I love my Dutch ovens too especially this one for fall and and then that
Dutch oven I use a bunch especially for baking sourdough but this pot is fabulous and then this
Pan the always pan right there is super fabulous and a great kitchen staple because you can use
it for so many different things but I wanted to mention that because the sale is going on right
now and they make great gifts but I like this drinking wear set because well one I love the
color palette of it and it's great for when you have guests over so that each person can
get a nice beautiful color and hopefully you won't get your cups confused foreign
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it's not enough
I finally finished editing my video it took way longer than I anticipated but it is uploading now
so it should be all set for tomorrow morning and now it is almost six o'clock I need to get dinner
started my friend Liz is coming over at seven for a bonfire which haven't even set that up and gotta
get going on this soup beforehand because I'm getting hungry hopefully it won't take too long
it's a lentil soup um but it does require some chopping some Veggie chopping so let's get to it
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all night long
good morning it is the next day around lunch time I'm eating leftover soup from last night
unfortunately wasn't my favorite soup it just tastes a little too healthy if you know what I
mean and I accidentally overcooked the lentils because I did red lentils and green lentils and
the red lentils cook a lot quicker than the green lentils so I shouldn't have done that
in the first place but it's fine it's fine I add some cheese and Greek yogurt plain Greek
yogurt today and that really enhances it so we're working with it but it's not going to
be a repeat soup for me I'll still link the recipe for you all but those are my thoughts
so today oh it feels so nice I don't have to go anywhere today I spent the morning doing
computer work posted a video got that up and the rest of the day I really just want to focus on
doing some home projects that I've had on my list so I actually already did one the storage
closet we have right there by the staircase it was so cluttered so I went through that and
organized so that feels really good and then my other big home thing I want to do today is
paint Palmer's room aka the closet under the stair the little hobbit hole we have over there
I want to paint that it's already painted except on one wall I'll show you in a minute but one the
the one wall that isn't painted we originally had wallpaper or I'll insert what it looks like
but the wallpaper unfortunately did not stick well whatsoever it kept coming down and made the wall
really sticky so the other day I just um scrubbed the wall to hopefully get a lot of the stickiness
out and now I'm just gonna paint over it so it'll be the same color as the other two walls but
I'm not even gonna try to do a different kind of wallpaper just because I feel like it doesn't work
out so the peel and stick wallpaper we have it in the guest bedroom actually but it's from a the one
I ordered for Palmer's little Nook over there it was from Amazon which it had really great reviews
but I feel like maybe because of the humidity and it being such a small space and one of the walls
is slanted it just wasn't working out so I'm just gonna paint it it'll all look uniformed and a bit
cleaner because we when we were painting the other two walls we didn't have clean lines because we
knew we were going to put wallpaper over it so I'm just gonna touch it up it's been on my list
for a while but that's the plan for the afternoon get that done and then in about an hour and a half
we have two of our friends daughters coming over and we're babysitting them for the rest of the
week and the weekend so just gonna be hanging out with them making memories I put together
these little gift bags for them today and I'm I'm really excited to spend time with them and just
enjoy each other's company make some memories but that's what's on the agenda for today okay
so this is the wall I want to paint this white one in the middle of these dark blue ones as
you can see the lines just are a little messy because we have the wallpaper but it shouldn't
take too long I just need to be careful when I paint this slanted wall that I don't drip it on
myself okay I pulled out the dark blue paint from the garage but just by shaking it I can tell that
there's barely any left so I'm gonna need to pick up more paint so this is to be continued foreign
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makeover is complete and I'm actually gonna order while I was painting I thought of this
idea to order glow-in-the-dark star stickers I think that'd look really cute on especially
the part that kind of Curves up and since the paint color is already a dark night sky color
then they'll look cute during the daytime and hopefully at night so we'll do that again soon I
think that'll be a cute little touch but thank you guys so much for watching this Vlog and spending
time with me before I sign off I wanted to share this quote that I saw on Pinterest the other day
I'm not sure who wrote it but I really really enjoyed it especially as someone who loves to
do home projects it really resonated with me it says beautify your homes walk a little longer put
a little put a little extra effort into a special dinner the fact that these things are temporary
does not make them worthless the knowledge of our Eternal homes fills our temporal homes with even
greater hope and I just thought that was really really beautiful and yeah I just really resonated
because I do find these home projects to be so exciting and every little touch in detail does
make our home more homie the homiest home that is what I'm in pursuit of but thank you again
so much for watching and spending time with me I look forward to seeing you all next bye
love you