I can’t believe it, here we are, at the end of August already and all I can say is, tick-tock, how did we get here so soon, and OH GOODIE!
MUSICA! 
I have been suffering from this hot and sticky August that seemingly will not end . . . I’m ready to move on! Love the quote, “There are only two seasons, Autumn, and waiting for Autumn!” Fits me to a T, especially right this moment. And then, a couple of days ago, at the top of my suffering, I accidentally did a happy thing . . . 
I opened up my Autumn Book, just to take a look. As I turned the pages a thrill went through my heart, and I realized, it’s almost here! My favorite time of year!
So I went and got some sunflowers . . . and cut marigolds from the garden for little vases . . . because
It perked me right up! Changed everything! Sweaters are coming! Leaves! Crisp air! Corn Pudding! Makes me almost want to go on a diet. That’s how perky I feel! (“Almost” being the operative word, I am not done with toast and peanut butter yet!)
I know, not everyone looks forward to cold weather, but I love having a reason to heat up the oven and bake something! And in my 
glee, I planned the rest of the year: first a long breezy, colorful autumn (and can we 
have a normal Halloween? Why not? Everyone wears masks anyway!👺 That will cheer everyone up! The kids will be thrilled!), leaves blowing through the woods on our walk, crisp salt air off the water, quilts airing in the breeze, more cozy covers on the bed, church bells ringing and boat whistles blowing, and then a short, cozy, snow-white winter around the fireplace, with a new Christmas book and a new puzzle to do during the winter, which will be SO short I’ll have to hurry! And then, an early burst of the most flowery spring ever ~ in a brand new world filled with fresh beginnings! Covid gone, children going to school, everyone back to work, Easter egg hunts! Kitchen table Tea with girlfriends, with new remembrance, respect, and deep gratitude …
While all these nice thoughts were brewing in my head … My cups arrived on the kitchen porch!!! I’ve been waiting! I hope you got yours too … if not, you should soon. We had a little slow-down at the PO, so if you ordered one, and don’t have it yet, it’s definitely on the way!❤️
And then there’s this happy thing. Joe is outside building us a 12′ picnic table, in two pieces, one 8′ and one 4′ … so we can have a party of six for dinner, a couple at each end, and one in the middle for starry September evenings! Just planned our first one for this Friday Night!👏 I’m cooking! Joe’s grilling! Keeping our sunny-sides up.💖
Now what’s this you may be asking. It’s a surprise! Another unexpected book! It will be called Distilled Genius, Wisdom of the World, Words to Live By, (or something like that) and contain my forty-year collection of brilliant quotes from the ages, gathered into categories as I have them here in my Studio, such as Courage, Tea, Gratitude, Gardens, Happiness, all onto pages like these . . .
. . . whole genius sections about Love, Dreams, Time, Girlfriends, Cooking, Creativity, Earth, Fairy Tales, Beauty . . . so on and so on… Look how cute it’s going to be! I have about 40 pages done so far. I’ve been asked to do this for years, and I do think it needs to be here for the future! Everything that has ever mattered has been beautifully said by someone whose attestment has teeth,
from Marcus Aurelius, to Mark Twain, Black Elk, Rumi, Langston Hughes, C.S. Eliot, Churchill, and the Bible, to Louisa May Alcott, Toni Morrison, Shakespeare, Dickens, Anne Frank, Lincoln, and so many more … plus, plenty from that prolific genius, Anon… and lots from people with less familiar names, whose smart, funny, wise, and touching words inspire curiosity, and open whole new worlds that lie beyond them. I’ve always read quote books like novels! I hope this book will be finished for that wonderful spring I’ve been thinking about. More hope in a time of need. May have to be two books, might even be three, still waiting to see! I know, I have next year’s calendars to do, and my wonderful book, Enchanted to work on, and lots of blog posts and Zoom events and dinners to cook, and Joe and Jack, and the House of Creativity, and all those other ideas, but here I am, Girls, 73, and there is still so very much I want to do!
Some of you will remember that I did my very first Zoom Webinar last week. First I had to learn how to do a Power Point slide show. That about killed me. But at the last moment, it sunk in, and I found out just how easy it is to do. All about pushing the right buttons. Then I had to write about the photos, ⬆️ that’s me reading over old diaries to make sure I had the details right ~ it was a Calgon Zoom Party, took us far, far away, back to the English Countryside!
And THEN, there was a week of daily Zoom practice with the encouragement of Andrea, the wonderful person who had extended the invitation for me to speak. We got to know each other pretty well! She was very patient!
We ended up doing the same program two days in a row, because the Zoom Room had gotten so full. I knew lots of you were there, because I got pictures! This one above is from our Girlfriend Mary Brehm! She has sweet peas!
This one came from Karen England and her Kitty . . . so fun to be in everyone’s houses!
This one is from Trahlyta! I got so many wonderful photos from you guys! Thank you! The program lasted about an hour and 15 minutes. I know some of you wanted to join in, but could not ~ so, as promised, here’s a link so you can see it yourself on Youtube. In the beginning, it’s just me staring at the screen, watching the names of attendees scrolling by really fast … such a fun thing to see, so many I recognized. I wish that part showed so you could read them too … but instead you just have to watch me staring at them and saying them out loud. Might want to skip that part!
IN THE MEANTIME. Guess what? There are going to be more Zoom parties. In the column on the right of this Blog
you’ll see EVENTS. Here is the Link for it, but you can get there yourself when you need to check back for new event dates. I’m about to add more, so watch for them so you can register and receive an invitation to join.
The next one will be a Sunday Afternoon Christmas Tea Party 
presented by the wonderful people at Titcombs Bookshop, just over the water on the Cape, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm EST on September 20 ~ BYO Tea because you’re all invited to my first virtual book event for my new Home for Christmas book! Here’s where you can sign up! If you don’t know how to do Zoom, you can Google “Youtube how to use Zoom” and they will show you. It’s just a matter of which buttons to push ~ it’s easy. When you sign up, they will send you an invitation to our zoom party … which will have a link for you to click on the day of the event. Put it on your calendar!
One flower stands out on Martha’s Vineyard, it’s the hydrangea… they are everywhere! Drive up and down the streets and that’s what you see. We moved these from another part of the garden last year, and I’m so glad we did. Aren’t they romantic? They’re just starting to turn pale pink, something they do in the fall . . . and now we can see them from the kitchen windows from this dear old house I have loved for so long.💞
We’re still going on our walk everyday … joy of life.
It’s been very warm . . . sometimes we have to cut our way through the air, it’s so thick . . . but it’s nothing like what our California Girlfriends are suffering. We pray for them every day. You too, Girlfriends in Iowa, we know about that crazy storm that shot through your state. And now, 11′ storm surges in Louisiana.😢 🙏 2020 is some kind of year!⚡️ We were spared the other night, we were told to hunker down and expect one-inch hail ~ it got very dark out there, but it never came! Thank God. Deep breath, ahhhhhh. Remembering how much we have to be grateful for.
The woods are still green as Sherwood Forest, but every so often there are tell-tale signs that change is on the way with bright spots like this one!
And now, look, I had to show you this sweet letter I got from someone writing about our DamPanic, Go. Be. Love. postcards! Made my day!
Dear Susan, Several weeks ago I purchased a package of your “Go. Be. Love” postcards and sent them to a number of friends. Oh, my gosh! I send lots of cards and notes and have never received so many oohs and ahhs over a card I sent. My dear friends loved the postcard and just showered me with compliments and thanks. You deserve all of the credit. You created the perfect greeting to send during this pandemic and I am so grateful to be a longtime fan and follower and saw them in your online shop. Stay safe and well. Sincerely, Marge
Just in cases YOU might need to be “showered with compliments and thanks” I thought I would share this!
And the New Pumpkin Go. Be. Love. postcards came in too …
I had this pumpkin postcard printed in honor of what our Great Grandmothers did for us only a hundred years ago this August 18th!💖 Joe carved that Halloween pumpkin a few years back for our front window ~ I thought it would be a good way to celebrate those brave and determined women, mothers, sisters, grandmothers, and best friends (and men too), who put themselves out there in a very big way for US! We should never take it for granted … they went through some very difficult and dangerous years, to make it happen!👏
Yes, Jack . . .
And one more thing . . .
In case YOU too need something sweet and homey to inspire you with my wind-in-the-trees formula for cozy, Kellee just put my Autumn book up at 25% off until midnight on Labor Day! You probably already have it, but maybe not, and maybe you need a gift for a friend!🍂
And for you?
Time for a good Giveaway, don’t you agree? I think this is the perfect place to thank all of you for sticking with us through thick and 
thin and dampanic too, for me and for Kellee and Sheri, your kindness has meant the world to us over the years, going to work is a gift because of you, but especially these last months, you have no idea what a positive force you are. All you have to do is read the comments to know what lovely kindred spirits visit here. No matter where in the world you are, we have so much in common, I’m very proud of us.💖 Thank you.
So we’ll start here . . . 3 cups, 3 winners! As you know, these cups are mostly sold out now, but we saved these to surprise someone(s) ~ I hope one of them is YOU! Just leave a comment right at the bottom of this post, click on the teeny grey letters that say “comments,” leave a few words, and you will be automatically entered for the drawing . . . I’ll let you know who won in the next post, then I’ll send an email to the winners, who can write back with their mailing address, and voila, your cups will be on the way, either for you to keep, or perhaps to give away as a Christmas gift! And more . . .
Shipping from the printer is still on schedule for August 26th, which means we will probably have to wait until the day after Labor Day, September 8 to get HOME FOR CHRISTMAS delivered to the Studio! So, 3 more winners in this next drawing ~ and for each, a signed copy of my new book, hot off the press! If you’ve already ordered it, then Boom! You’ll have another one to giveaway! A little bit of “pay it forward.”💞
Leave a comment as suggested above … and now we will have six winners! Makes my day!
Okay dear ones, that’s all she wrote for today! I hope you’re giving yourself those hugs I talked about at the Zoom Party. They do help, and you do deserve them.❤️ Petty-pet hugs are good too! XOXOXO
Thanks for your encouraging post Susan.
I love the quote book idea and will definitely try and order it when it’s available. It’s a bit hard getting things from America to New Zealand at the moment. I’m also keen to connect on Zoom. Have a great day.
This is wonderful Susan!!!! I always enjoy your posts. And, I loved the Zoom meeting last week!!! So special to see you & hear you & feel like we’re just sitting there chatting. Thank you soooo much for making the effort to learn Zoom so we can all play. ❤️
I love the arrival of your letters. It is more a gift than a letter, so much substance and beautiful artwork!
Living in the Pacific Northwest I’m afraid I have to amend your opening quote – with those two seasons being Summer and waiting for it. We have been blessed here, spring through summer with mild & warmer weather, allowing outside activities to take place in this time of Covid.
Be well – Vikki Anderson
I so enjoy reading your blog. Keep up the good work. Thanks!
Love you Susan Branch! Your’re my favorite inspiration person, keep up the great work!!! You always bring out the finest and best in life and show us how we can do the same.
There’s no place like home! Thanks for your beautiful blog, Susan!”
Hi Susan,
Thank you for another wonderful post. I really enjoy reading them because you love all the things that I do. Looking forward to both the enchanted book and your book of quotes to come out. I will check out the zoom meeting video this week. Have a great day.
Hi Susan,
Thanks for the meeting through Zoom, it was a pleasure to shared time together but apart. My daughter was able to enjoy the meeting, she loves anything “England”, she is 10 years old. “Distilled Genius, Wisdom of the World, Words to Live By” will be a perfect book to gift. Same as you, Autumn is my favorite season and here in Utah you can feel every moment of it. Send you a big hug, Love, Johanna from Utah.
Ten! Hugs to you both Johanna!
What a wonderful post ! Looking forward to your new book filled with quotes. Thank you for keeping us positive during this pandemic on top of politics.
In Indiana the Tulip trees start dropping their leaves now, leaving pretty red and orange drops on the grass and making me think it is Fall. It is 90 degrees today! Thanks for helping me dream of Fall.
My day always gets sunnier when I see a new post from you. I read through it so fast that I have to take a deep breath and read through it again to absorb your every word. I enjoy your writing and your little drawings so much. Thank you for all of it.
Susan
I am all in for your plans for the rest of the year! I feel lucky that I live in the great state of Missouri where we can enjoy all four seasons. Just when we start to get tired of one the next one is about to start. Love that each season we change how we dress, what we eat and how we decorate our homes inside and out. Who said change isn’t good! It has been terribly hot and dry here and I am ready for the cool crisp autumn days too. Looking forward to receiving your Christmas book in the next few weeks. Also, I am soooo excited that you are doing a book of your favorite quotes. Any update on the movie situation??
You and your guys take care and stay healthy!
Susan, the highlight of my days is checking my email and seeing a new post from Susan Branch. What will she say? What charming photos will she show us (of her house especially)? What new paintings? Sayings? Recipes? Really, there’s nothing better than that going on ANYWHERE; I’ve looked!
💕 Judy
😘😘😘😘😘😘💞
It is always so good to hear from you, Susan. Happy almost autumn! I can’t wait to read Home for Christmas and your lovely quote book once it is available.
Smiles,
Karen Holly
Thank you for the wonderful Zoom meeting visiting England. I’m dreaming, hoping and praying that we can travel again in 2021 as we are booked for a tour that includes the gardens of England and Wales and a day at the Chelsea Flower Show. You are an inspiration for all!
Thank you for posting the Zoom meeting so that I could see your presentation and hear your voice; always enjoyable.
You say you get a thrill in your heart thinking about Autumn. I get excited when I see in my email box there is a new post from you! It’s always an encouragement to hear your thoughts and see your painting. I’m excited about your new quote book. That will be a treasure!
What a great uplift it would be to win one of your beautiful mugs or the new Christmas book.
I just ordered your Autumn book. I look forward to my favorite season of the year, and will enjoy your book, as the days get shorter, and there is time to do more than work in the gardens. Thank you for inspiring me once again.
Hi Susan! I was so happy to see a new post from you. I love your writing, your books, seeing your beautiful home, and the glimpses of Jack! I also love quotes too, and can’t wait for your book.
Thank you for this wonderful post! Here’s to cooler days ahead, Fall is my favorite season and it will be here soon. Yay! Have a great week!
Susan,
I just want to share that I have been decorating my cottage this week for fall and part of my decor includes your 10th Anniversary Edition AUTUMN 🍂 on my coffee table. I never get tired of your books. Looking forward to your new CHRISTMAS book.
You and Joe stay safe and well 🍂❤️🍁
How fun that you’re going to share your collections of quotes and memorable words. I’ve long kept a book like that and it’s so fun and sweet to go back from time to time to get the same lovely feeling as when you first found/wrote the words down to keep for refreshment. Can’t wait to see your collection as it sounds mammoth and I know it will be uplifting. I’ve found some autumn leaves as well and am so ready to see them all that color! Love your blogs.
Thank you Susan! Great read… as always. Looking forward to the book of quotes!! 💗
More now than ever before, it’s absolutely the little things…
Thank you!!! 🙂
Hello! As usual such an uplifting blog post. Always makes me smile when I see your email. Excited about your quote book(s). I have always loved quotes too. Happy Fall!🍁🐿🍂
Thank you for your encouraging words during this time. I’m ready for fall to and received your book today to put me in the mood. I’m ready for heating up my ove for delicious recipes and I’m ready to make bread. Yum!! Best wishes from Ohio
When I saw your email I got so excited. It is a gift to me to be able to sit down and read your lovely words. Thank you so much!
I LOVE getting mail from you! Thank you for making my day!!❤️
Hi Susan – Just loved your first “zoom” party! Almost like being in your kitchen for a lovely chat! Fun to see Jack, too! Glad to be able to re-watch the vdieo, too. Thanks for all you do to help keep our spirits up, as usual, and particularly now! Must get out my Autumn book and get inspired! =^..^=
I’m so looking forward to autumn. It can’t come soon enough.
Your email came at the time that I was rather nostalgic as I am leaving the home I love and have lived in for 46+ years. Seeing all the hope you have given me in this email, I have the Autumn to look forward to and much to be thankful for as the time goes by. Thank you, Susan.
Dear Susan,
Thank you for your inspiring posts! I also enjoyed your Zoom meeting. You have such a wonderful way of brightening our lives. Enjoy the changing season🤎 🍁💛 🍂 🧡
Helen F.
Thank you Susan for your wonderful blog today – a very bright spot as we are waiting on Laura here in TX and LA. I too have been sending out your postcards. Friends just love them! I’m looking forward to your new books, have ordered one but would love another copy to share! Thanks again!!
Waiting for Autumn with you and looking forward to a long one💕
Thank You for sharing your day’s and life with us, it is such a joy!
I so enjoy your blog . You’re very inspiring and always put me in a good mood. Keep it up, so many of us look forward to the next Blog.
Thank you,
Carmen
Every day I see something from YOU, it brightens my day, life!
Love your blog and your books and have your calendar on our wall every year! Thanks for sharing your talents with us.
Autumn is coming! I also love this season the best – thanks for the coming PREVIEW!
Love-Love-Love your work and talent and your willingness to share it with others. It truly is a gift to you that you keep giving to others. Thank you!
As always beautiful messages. Both from you and the quotes.
Please update us with info on the potential for a movie. I can hardly wait for the new book! Enjoy the last of summer and the anticipation of fall.
I would love to win one of your mugs. I bought one for my Mom for Mather’s Day and they are so pretty. I would most likely gift a winning one to a friend to share the cheer!
Susan,
I am in Northern California and the air is terrible, but safe so far from fire. We have had humidity, thunder and lightening, feel like I am in South Dakota visiting family in the summer as a kid. We are now in the 90’s after having 100 + days. I am so ready for fall! Am off for a couple of days from the hospital due to tooth pain and going in a little later for consult for a root canal, yeah! Just going with the trend of getting all the bad stuff done for this year! All take care.
This summer has been a long hot one! I’ve been avoiding thinking about autumn (which I LOVE) to avoid thinking about how bleak our Thanksgiving — and Christmas? — may be, with avoiding grandkids and my 99-yo mother. But your description of the After This kind of gave me a kickstart. This Too Will Pass!! And I am a good, ripe 75. And I want to savour it all, including these slower times when I have a handy excuse to avoid anything I feel like avoiding. Thanks for your usual cheery epistle!
Your posts are such a return to normal life. Thank you.🌹❤️
I just love all your beautiful things! They make me soooo happy
Soo ready for fall & looking forward to your new book!
I feel like a winner!
💖
Dear Susan: I was walking in our neighborhood today and thought’ “It is very fallish today.” I will hang on to summer as long as I can, but I do enjoy air that is so crisp you feel you could take a bite of it like a juicy apple. Cider, fall colors, cozy sweaters, soup simmering on the stove…. what’s not to love.
Tick Tock resonants; there are so many fantastic things to learn, do, read, knit. I told a friend, “I need 20 more years.+
Me too!
I can’t wait for your favorite quotes book!
Thank you for learning how to Zoom. I had such a good time on the event. You are such a good girlfriend. It was a very nice diversion from the world right now. I received my Christmas mug and my Bluebird mug. I whacked my first one on the counter. I thought it was ok but my coffee was leaking out. It now holds pens and pencils. I couldn’t bare to throw it out. Stay safe!
Love your postings. What a wonderful respite from this time of stress and isolation. Keep them coming!
What a joy when I get a new letter from you! You are like an old friend to me. We seem to like the same things and pictures and music. This world we are currently living in is so strange, but I can depend on you to be steady and dependable. Thanks for your words for all of us!
I love your optimism and feel inspired after reading your blog. Thank you for sharing your life with all of us!
More cups! A Christmas Book! Not so bad a year after all!
Thank you for another inspirational blog. I so enjoyed your zoom event. Can’t wait for the next one. Savor these last days of summer. I love the change in the light and colors of the garden!
Made my day to see a new post from you today. I love autumn and can hardly wait. I have pulled my copy of your Autumn book off my bookshelf to get myself in the mood for all things Autumn! Take care!
Reading your blog with a hot cup of coffee was just what I needed today! Feeling refreshed and ready for another day in this new socially distanced world. Thank you for sharing these beautifully written thoughts!
Good for you for your daily walks! I’m having trouble wanting to get outside in the muggy August air. Hopefully more inspired when cooler weather arrives! Love your hydrangeas!
Fall is my favorite season also. Can’t wait!!
look forward to your blog and gorgeous paintings. thanks for entering me in for the cup.
Thank you, Susan, for the delightful VOTE pumpkin postcards. It is a “twofer”….holiday greeting and civic reminder. I am looking forward to sending them. Happy Autumn!
Your blogs are wonderful and lift my spirits. Thanks Terri
As always a wonderful post. I look forward to your blogs as they are so uplifting and straight from the heart. And we all certainly need that right now. Thanks for being the bright spot in my day.
Hello Dearies,
It is so great to hear from you with another lovely post.
This has been a hard week for me as my poor kitty, darling girl, Miss Marple, spent the weekend in the hospital and we are hoping a biopsy taken will come back as normal. xx fingers crossed- all of them- even my thumbs xx
Also, on a much less important note- today we sold our little mule, Pepe- the Jeep we’ve had for almost 20 years. I am very sentimental ever since I read Black Beauty as a girl and can’t take something, even and inanimate object, into my life without forming an attachment. So hard to let him go.
So your words of optimism are so encouraging when I can’t muster the courage to face another day of Covid, and politics, and my strictly nutritious weight loss plan . I SO appreciate them and the light you bring to us and to the world. Please keep on going. 73 is just the start of great things.
Also- cute, cute Joe- he and my Rick are of the same club. Clever Craftsman Cutie Patooties!
I can’t wait for Autumn either! It is my favorite time of the year.
Sending love and lighthouses!
xxooxx
Gabi
Hugs to you heart, GABI XO
Thank you Charissa- you’re so sweet! <3
Mugs and books…can only lead to good things!!
I, too, am awaiting fall…tired of summer stuff except for my comfy sandals. 🌸
Ahh…..so good to come in from the heat and to sit down and read a new post from you! It is HOT here in SE Indiana and I have been in the garden picking beans this afteroon ( 5 bushels). Whew…thought I was going to melt. I was just looking at your Autumn book the other day …..looking so forward to my favorite season and enjoying looking through your book again! Take care and stay safe!
Zoom invites don’t work for me. No camera on my old computer. Plus I’m one of few with a land line. You all have fun.
We still have a land line too… I’ve had that phone number since 1982 and there is no way I can give it up!
Susan, your adorable old phone on the wall, it still works? I used to have that same one. Moved and Ma Bell wanted it back. 😭. – dezi
Oh yes, it works! It’s been there since we moved in in 1989!
I’m green, but no worries, I live too far away to sneak into your darling kitchen and pull a sticky finger! I do still have my parents old black heavy land line phone from the 40’s. But I haven’t been able to hook that up since the push button era. Would probably still work in England, though.
Hum-m-m-m.
Hi Susan,
I do so look forward to your posts each and every time. Your vibrancy and cheeriness mean much…especially this year… Thank you for taking time to write, to paint and draw, to quote, to lighten our loads, our lives with your kindness and gifts. God bless you.
Looking forward to fall as it’s been so hot here in California. The only saving grace is a long cool dip in the pool before bed.
Enjoyed your latest post!
Susan,
You are a breath of fresh air! In this troubled time, your love of simple things is refreshing. I am from Iowa and just endured the derecho. Looking forward to fall and then the holidays and all the simple blessings is just what I need to keep moving forward! Thank you for all you do!
I’m headed off to pull my Autumn book out for the season! Thank you for sharing your talents with all of us!
My young neighbor’s name is Autumn. I met her the day she was born and now she is 18, leaving home for her first year of college. What a delight she has been. I hope your Fall is as delightful!
Loved the upbeat post. I was there for your premiere on Zoom and you were terrific! Looking forward to the next one through Titcomb’s. Hoping Vanna picks me for one of the give-always…you can never have enough SB mugs!
What a lovely surprise this late summer afternoon! I pulled out my boxes of fall decorations yesterday. Normally I control myself until September 1st, but this year requires extra doses of doing what I want, when I want 😊. Actually leaves are starting to fall, the garden seems to be wearing down and I am starting to see a change in shadow patterns. It really isn’t far away. Thank you for this lovely post to give our hearts and minds some beauty to savor!
P.S.
I love Karen England’s kitty, Whiskey. She is one of my cat crushes on Instagram!
Fun to see her here!
I have enjoyed your books, newsletters and posts for years and years. Have bought your cookbooks filled with recipes and art for each of my three granddaughters.
How I would love to be chosen to receive one of your cups. Count me in!
I am looking forward to HOME FOR CHRISTMAS!! So happy for Fall showing little signs here in Colorado!! And than Christmas!!!!
I always look forward to these blogs/posts. I wish I could afford to buy everything you ever sold. Dag nabit I missed a zoom meeting? Oh man…..:(
Susan, enjoy all your wonderful things. Can’t wait for the Christmas book!❤️
Thank you for a wonderful bright spot in my day!
Thank you Susan for once again bringing comfort and inspiration during these challenging times with your lovely blogs. Hugs to Jack!
Hello Susan,
I admit that I’m secretly very pleased that autumn is your favorite season too! The days are still warm but it gets downright chilly at night. The leaves turn and it smells so different outside. We’ve only had a few sprinkles of rain so far but I can smell them coming and then I’m outside in the yard, waiting. Bring it on!
Susan…what a treat it always is to find a new blog posting! Even more so now when we’re stuck at home with the Covid Monster lurking in the shadows, and then — LAURA! She may be headed toward Houston, but somewhere between here and Louisiana looks pretty certain at this point. It seems as if we’ve spent the better part of 2020 just sitting around waiting for something that MIGHT happen. We’ll see what tomorrow brings, but now I’m going to run text my friend Sylvia to alert her to the your latest post. We both are always so excited to find a new one.
Thanks for making my tough days as a Covid nurse ‘enchanted’…I can escape to a simply beautiful place…I have all your books but last year thankfully I headed with girlfriends to the Cotswolds following your lead and those memories sustain me through the tough days…thank you, thank you, thank you!! 💕
I agree! Autumn is the best season of the year! I’m very ready for heat and humidity to go away and leave us with crisp and cool autumn air. I think I’ll hang my favorite fall quilt on the living room wall this very afternoon. That will set the stage for further fall decor to come.
Hi Susan,
Love your work, and especially love those beautiful mugs.
Thanks for the blog and your uplifting And joyful spirit!
Fall will be here before we know it and we will all breathe that clean crisp air, mask or no mask!
Take care and hugs and kisses for your kitties.😘🥰
Hello Susan: I’m right there with you about fall. Can’t get here soon enough! I’m an October baby & sooo glad to live in a world with October’s 🎃 I’m so over the heat/humidity in NJ. I’ve already been baking from your holiday cookbook & loving every yummy morsel🍪🧁
Take care, stay safe hugs to you and Joe.
I am an autumn person too… It has been dreadfully hot in the Midwest and we could use a little rain. I am soooooo looking forward to fall this year. It feels like it’s been a year and a half already. I’m looking forward to receiving my Christmas book and puzzle. Thank you for all you do. Enjoy your outdoor gathering at your new tables.
Always enjoy reading your posts. They are all about the sweet things of life and we need sweet things! Those three cups are adorable. I have a thing for little birds, so that would be my choice, if choosing were an option 🙂
I got out my Autumn book about a week ago during our 95 degree weather. I couldn’t wait any longer! It always gives me such a lift and reminds me that summer can’t last forever.
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” Lucy Maud Montgomery
Thank you for this beautiful spirit lifter.
Blessings
Your mugs are so cute!
I would enjoy drinking my morning coffee from one!
I am so excited about your new books! I have all your others and they are all special friends for me. Thank you for sharing your life with us, your lucky girlfriends!!
Hello Susan! I joined in on the zoom call live and was positively thrilled to “see you in real life” talk about your books and England and all the things we kindred spirits love so much! I gleefully bragged to my husband that you called out my location in the call (Franklin, Tennessee 🙂 It made my day! THANK YOU!!!
Thank you for your wonderful blog! Looking forward to your future book on quotes. Autumn is my favorite season. I have many of your books and Autumn is one of my favorites. Take care.
Ann H.
Southern California
Look forward to your posts – they so brighten the day. Will be taking my “Autumn” book off the shelf to read again — and find something to make. My favorite time of year also! Be safe, be well and find the joy in each and every day. Blessings to you, Joe and of course Jack! Got one of your postcards in the mail today, from my sister! will become my next bookmark! 🙂
It’s hot and sticky here in northeast Iowa too. We’re lucky in that we are located north of where the storms hit… as you say…lots to be thankful for!
Definitely looking forward to fall and cooler weather….a new mug to help celebrate the season would be an extra bonus! :>)
So glad you missed the storms. East Central Iowa will be cleaning up for quite a while. Looking forward to the cold front coming thru Friday/Saturday. In the meantime try to stay cool.
Susan I love all your books, but I can’t wait for book(s) on the quotes you use. I love them! I love fall too. I just got my “Casper” out today! Last Fall I was very ill with a brain tumor and had two surgerys. I had shown a friend of mine the directions you had put in a post, I think Sept 2018. She made me my own lighted ghost very similar to your Casper. I hope I can figure out how to send you a picture of mine. By the way I am feeling great and very blessed that I am well today.
Love, Sonja
I loved this entire post, but especially this: “‘I was overcome by an attack of pathological enthusiasm.’ Sweaters are coming! Leaves! Crisp air! Corn Pudding! Makes me almost want to go on a diet. That’s how perky I feel! (“Almost” being the operative word, I am not done with toast and peanut butter yet!)”. I can identify, right down to the “I’m not done with toast and peanut butter (and honey!) yet.” Thank you for sharing your ‘pathological enthusiasm’ with all of us, and giving me a description for my sometimes over-the-top happy. I love autumn, too. It has quite the same effect on me. All but the diet part. 😂 It makes me want to have a tea party.
Love that you keep gracing us with new books! I so treasure my current library, and look forward to adding to the collection. Like you, I can’t wait for fall, and hope we’ll be able to enjoy many crisp, clear, smokeless days here in northern California.