Miller Time Friday - Confessions, an update on Meeses (!) and Florist-Wanna-be's

Thanks all for your great advice yesterday!

While I won't wear the fancy pants for working, I WILL dress in them sometimes for dinner and have made a vow to wear one pair of fancy pants at least once ever couple of weeks.  Like everything else in my closet, they gotta be worn if they want to stay!

So the capsule wardrobe exercise lasted three days.

Oh, they were a good three days. 

But then today I got up and I wanted to wear white jeans and a black tshirt and I didn't want to wear any more navy and camel for a few days.

This speaks more to my inability to adequately plan a capsule wardrobe that had sufficient va-va-voom for someone with a whimsical personality - two colours doesn't cut it, and so the next ten items I work with will have a couple more thrown in for good measure.  In the picture above I am wearing the $350 Marc Cain skirt that I bought for $90 during the big going-out-of-business sale this summer,  It is so comfortable and the material feels so luxurious.  Well done Wendy and a reinforcement that buying one good thing, regardless of price is worth a lot.  Honestly, I would have paid full price for this.  I expect to wear this once a week all fall and winter.

I was out beginning the fall clean up yesterday.  There are STILL mosquitoes in our yard!  In only 30 minutes, I was bitten 12 times!  this is unheard of in September and is an indication of the warm, wet summer and fall we have had and are having.  I hate to wear bug spray but am being forced to the next time I go out or I won't get the work done!

Speaking of bug spray, we are off to a cabin the woods (sounds like a horror movie!) with some friends for an overnighter tomorrow, so there will be no Random Saturday musings (perhaps there will be Sunday Regrets?).  One of our pals is turning 50 and that means a Mexican feast and dance-fest in a place where no one will hear us!  We will truly be in the middle of nowhere, so I do plan to bring the bug spray!

Yesterday, I went around the yard and gathered a lovely bouquet of late summer beauties - hydrangeas, dahlias, honeysuckle, lilies, hostas, ninebark branches, geranium, phlox.  Fall arrives this weekend, and so for me, every blossom is a gift; they will be gone soon enough and I will be missing them till next May or June.  I wonder at times about the wisdom of living in a place where the growing and blooming period is so short: I look at my pictures from last Spring and my desperate desire to see anything blooming and I think: why did my ancestors stop here?  Why do I stay here?  There are many places, and you all live in some of them, where the blooming season is considerably longer.  Sigh....

But they are pretty, aren't they?  I have always had a secret hankering to be a florist.  I love flowers and I love to play with them.   I was trying to think this morning about movies where one of the main characters is a florist, but I can't think of any - can you?  all I can think of is Pete Postlewaite in The Town, but his florist character is decidedly darker than the kind of florist I would be!

 We had another visit from a mouse last night!  So now ALL of my food is containerized in lovely containers purchased at Winners (I already had a lot of them..)

I need a few more, but it's a start...

And a picture of Barry cleaning our the cupboards:

He doesn't know I took this picture...

I slept for 9 hours last night!  It turns out you can wear yourself down!

Other than that, all is quiet here - Son has gone off to Prince Edward Island for an overnighter and I am going to have a nice quiet evening and be early to bed, as I imagine tomorrow night will NOT be an early night!

In honour of visitor, I propose a

Mickey Mouse cocktail:

Shake all ingredients (except lime wedge) with ice and strain into an old-fashioned glass over ice cubes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add the wedge of lime and serve.

Ingredients:

• 3 oz. Tomato juice
• 1 dash Lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
• 3 drops Tabasco sauce
• 1 Lime wedge

I do not like tomato juice, so I will pass and just have a lovely shiraz...

Have a great day and stay safe out there!