Good Morning Everyone! Just a quickie from me and Casper (the very friendly ghost)👻, waving from our upstairs bedroom window…this is a very short update, but I still have a song for you! A very sweet one, my Grandma’s favorite, and mine too, the video is as nice as the MUSICA!🎵 I’ve posted this song before, but since I can’t get enough, I don’t mind doing it again…👏
I will be back next week along with Vanna to pull the winning names for our giveaway for the handmade quilt and the vintage 
storybook (see the next post if you missed it). You can still sign up, just leave a comment on either of these two posts and you’ll be entered! I know you’re waiting but I’m working on a slide show for my two ZOOM Events this Sunday and next, and I’m not done yet! I’ll be coming to you from my kitchen table! (I never know if there will be an appearance from a special guest star! They are both so UNpredictable!) I hope you’re able to join us, but if not . . . there will be MORE! Click on the link above 
for details on how to join the party ♥️. I know they’re asking that everyone buy a book, which is NOT my idea, although I totally understand why they have to do it, this world being what it is … but if you need a Christmas gift, you might think about it because the slide show is going to be all about this old house and some of our holiday traditions and I know it’s your cup of tea.💞 Unfortunately, this won’t work for our girlfriends from other countries, shipping costs being what they are. I’m so sorry, I’m only a guest of the bookstores, I have to do things the way they want to! I have never set up a Zoom talk of my own, one of these days I will need to learn how!!! What do you think? Good winter project!!
Okay, must get back to it! Thank you for your patience . . . See you soon. Oh and PS, Kellee and I have been working on another little surprise. So nice to have things to look forward to! Always good news around here! Until then, thank you for all your luv-lee comments! Enjoy your days and do this ⬇️!🎃
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love your Casper and of course Jack and his friend “Mr. Spider” ……Happy October to you and Joe.
I love vintage quilts! I just made a quilt for our first grandbaby. Quilts are made with love 🙂
Your blog – words, artwork, your home and other people’s famous words – bring me so much joy and comfort! Thank you for sharing your extraordinary gifts!
When I see a posting in my inbox from you, I can’t wait to open it and savor your positive energy. You are always able to make me smile, even in these uncertain times! We are just driving down to the Cape from the Boston area and enjoying the look of fall along Route 3, always a New England delight to witness the glorious change of seasons. Thanks for bringing us joy, especially now!
love quilts even more as autumn comes on up here in the north country!
I love your artwork and your books!
I wish we had one of those Casper Halloween ornaments! I always look for him on line.Happy Halloween to all the girlfriends. It should be good for 2020.
Hi Susan!… Hi Joe and Jack!… hi Casper!… love you all!… Happy golden October, xoxo Julie Marie
Hi Susan,
I always love seeing your ghost! Happy Halloween!
I was just thinking I needed a Susan Branch post today and, voila, here it is. Always makes me feel wonderful. Thank you so much for being you and giving so much!! I love the music too!!!
Little is good too. A tasty morsel for us to enjoy. Be warm, be safe. Boo..please enter me in a raffle if in time. Anxiously await all news and Willards.
Love the song and what memories it brings!!
Thanks!!
Your posts are the highlight of my day! I’d love to be entered into the special “give-a-way.” The photos are so sweet
Susan!
Lids Rose, my very favorite barber shop quartet song. Since hearing it in ,”The Music Man “ has always been my number one. I really understand why your Grandma loved it. I had the pleasure of receiving and reading your new Christmas book. What a joy it was to leave all the woes of today for a little while and spend time with you and your family, safely.
Thanks for your years of bringing a little peace and humanity to our lives!
Cheers,
Lucy
Susan,
Those are just precious pictures of your 2 loves!
Thank you for giving us something to make us smile and anticipate…especially needed these days! PS. Have you ever considered designing phone cases?
Always so nice to hear from you! Even if it’s a quick word! Your words, illustrations and good humor always make me smile and feel better! Thanks Susan for bringing joy!
Stay happy & healthy!
Katy
You brighten up my days with your blogs. Many thanks
Happy Spooky Season! Are you able to give an update on the potential movie?
What a fun blog! Love your cat checking out the spider. Take care, Linda
I really enjoy your blog posts, Susan. They’re so uplifting and inspirational, which is exactly what I need right now. Thank you! Oh, and that lovely quilt would look great in my house!
Hoping you can come again to Vroman’s bookstore in Pasadena, CA! Can you Zoom with them??
I just love to have your company…no matter how long or short a time you can stay.
Have the puzzles arrived?
Hi Miss Susan,
What an unexpected delight! Thank you for the darling musica and already-handsome Donny Osmond. Now if we could just get YOU to sing us a little song once more… pretty please with sugar on top?
For those of us who already bought bookS (plural ~ one for us, more for presents!) will you be able to post links to the videos from this Sunday’s zooms in your blog, as you did with the Tea at Titcomb’s Bookshop? I was so happy to be able to rewatch that, technical difficulties somewhat marred my watching it live. I would love to be able to buy a ticket to this Sunday’s events, offered separately, if there’s a chance of that.
Your portrait of Joe and Jack is so adorable, me-wow.
xoxox love Coco :@)
Susan, love you popping in today. Those pics of Jack and Joe….awww! Love that sweet adorable kitty face❤️ Good luck on your Zoom calls, and I do have the new Christmas book, just saving it for a treat to read on Dec. 1. I savor treats to look forward to. Love you much 🥰
Happy Fall dear Susan, Seems I’ve gone back to my childhood by finding the most beautiful Autumn Leaves and putting them between wax paper inside the pages of my heaviest books. It makes me happy 🙂 to see how lovely they turn out! If you hear a Bump in the Night on Oct. 31st, don’t be scared, it’s just your Mommy sending you all her love & good wishes.
By the way, I felt like Andy & the Osmonds were singing to me just like my late husband Joe used to do. I miss him so very much, my heart is broken.
Thanks for the memories. Love, Rose
Thanks for the cheering!
Love the new Christmas book! Can’t wait to give them as gifts to my sisters!
Stay well!
Lovely! Thank you, as always, for your wonderful blog. I enjoy them so much!
Hi Susan,
I look forward to and always enjoy your blogs so much. I usually read them with a cup of tea and ‘biscuit’ in hand… today it was a warmed up bowl of chili and corn bread from last night’s dinner. Basking in the warm Autumn sun on my backyard deck. Won’t be many more if these days soon.
Your words and description of what you are doing always get my creative juices flowing. More so now as a good distraction from the chaos of today’s world.
So I’ll take my empty bowl to the kitchen sink and continue with my wooden button necklace and bracelet project for my grand daughter.
Until next time. Be well.
My daughter and I love your sweet and inspiring blog! We have read and cherish your books as well. Thank you for offering kindness and hope during troubling times. Love, Becky and Eliza in Port Angeles, Washington
Vanna, pick me, please!
Always love to get a quick message from you!
I can’t wait to get your call telling me I’ve won!!
Blessings on you and yours🙏♥️
Susan,
You’re the BEST! Enter me in your drawing for the prizes. Thanks!
Thank you again for brightening my day!
Dear Susan, I am starting a gratitude journal and you my dear will be my first entry. I have been told that this will help in cheering me up in these tough times. How come I have forgotten how my whole self smiles when I see your name in my in box? Thanks for you a thousand times over. Enjoy your beautiful fall.💕💕
So looking forward to your next zoom! xoxox
Happy Halloween!
Always a pleasure to read your thoughts and feel your good will!
Back at you.
Dear Susan – I remember Casper when I was driving up your street and screamed for Margie to stop!!! So beguiling and sweet. I loved the little row of pumpkins above your door also.
I just loved all of it!!!
Much love to you!!!!
Kitty
Ps- loved your last Zoom!!!! I’ll try to get on the one on my birthday – 10/25. What a treat!!!
Don’t we all love your “Catch a leaf” little quote? These little traditions are the charms of life and traditions. I always collect the first fall leaf I find and put it in my purse. My mother used to say when seeing a truck of hay bales, “Bale of Hay, Bale of Hay, take my wish and go away,” so there’s another one to make your wishes go forward for you. Enjoy our favorite season and keep your chin up. 🍁🍂🥰
My daughter noticed that I use my Bluebird cup every day since it arrived . I wished I had purchased it 4 yrs ago before it sold out so it is extra special to me to use it now. I just had my 4 yr free of cancer mammo so think my reward will be another cup or book (Or…maybe both!) Pandemic isolation getting harder now in 8th mo. (both Tim & I are high risk) but your blog brings such pleasure. I re-read them and I save them as well. Many many thanks for adding so much pleasure and beauty to our lives, Gail Risden
Love your podcasts – even if they are short!
Blessings –
I was catching up on reading some of the blogs I missed, so sorry to hear of your moms passing. Condolences to you and your family.
God bless,
Dawn R.
I am so disappointed that I will not be able to join your tea party. I live in the county and have very limited satellite access. I would have LOVED to see a slide show of your house. I hope you will post some of the pictures on your blog for the rest of us to enjoy. Good luck with your ZOOM event.
Maybe you could go to a library?
As always, I enjoy seeing your decorations. I somehow just don’t have the heart for Halloween this year. I think I will be able to do something for Thanksgiving though.
Do any other girlfriends have glitches when they see a Susan Branch blog post on their smart phone, glance at it, and intend to read it later when they get to their 17″ laptop (easier on old eyes), but completely lose the post? That’s what I did with your October 2 post. Thankfully, you posted again today and gave us another chance to win the quilt and the 1938 Christmas story book.
I attended your Christmas Tea and loved every moment of it. When your delightful Christmas book arrived, I read it in one sitting. Now I’d love to read the book you read to your nieces so long ago which inspired your own book. Thank you for Susan, for being such a generous girlfriend. We all love you and your positivity.
You can always go to http://www.162.240.10.175/~susanbs3/susanbranch/... I think I will usually be there!
I never see my comments. I often wonder if they are ever seen!!
I do see them… sometimes I say hello!!!
I never see mine either, Barbara Moran!
If you postmark Susan’s blog, you can get in very easy. Just something I do to get in quick with no glitches. Hope this helps.
I love the quilt that you are sharing. I’ve been a quilter for over 30 years and never tire of it. I love reading your posts, they always give a warm feeling! With this crazy world we are living in, it is nice to hear and see all your crafts, decorating and especially recipes. Thanks again!
Love hearing from you. Always lifts my spirits
What fun to see Casper…your friendly ghost!
And what a treat to have a chance to win your ‘loverly’ quilt!
You’re the best girlfriend to all of us Susan 🎃
Have fun ‘Zooming’ from your kitchen…! Right now it’s
the next best thing to being in the bookstore 📚….and germ free!
Cheers to you 🍷
Claudette….from a very colorful Maine 🌲
Anything you can do to ease the minds of worried Americans during this month is so appreciated. I can’t sleep. I just wish 2020 were over and for me, a new President would ease my troubled soul. Thank you, Barbara
Good luck on your Zoom slide show Susan! Yes learn how to set up a Zoom talk and invite us all!!! ❤❤❤🎃🎃🎃
Going to do it!!!
It is a new season and you have good things planned.
Wishing you all the best enjoying yourselves.
Thanks for your quick note. Love getting these happy messages from you. Please work on the “zoom” thing. I haven’t figured out how to use them let alone set one up. But for you, I will figure out how to do a zoom. Happy Day from the wilds of Wyoming!
Kellee and I started talking about it this afternoon. We think maybe this winter when we’ve all totally lost our minds might be a good time. We’ll have Twine!
Always good to have an email from you even if it a short one. I so look forward to your kind words and wonderful thoughts – always a highlight of my day.
I can’t wait to hear from you, when you get back!
I always love reading all your stories, plus the photos alone tell wonderful stories. Happy October to you.
Best of luck with your Zoom Book Store presentation! It’s so strange to Zoom — I’m still not used to it!! Happy Fall!
I’m not used to it either, but I do love that we can be together even if it’s in this primitive way!🤣
In times like these we who celebrate the little things are ahead of the game as there is always something to look forward to!
Susan,
Please enter me in your drawings for this month!
Thank you,
Mary Helen
Hi Susan,
So glad to hear you’re going to be talking about your lovely house and your traditions. Cheryl and I will be watching on Sunday. I was happy to buy your book so I could attend your zoom get together. I haven’t received an invitation and instruction email yet, on going to the meeting I’m sure I got one on your last visit. Maybe it will come on Sunday before the meeting starts. Looking forward to seeing you again. Happy Fall🎃!
I’m sure they will send it Kay! 🎃 xoxo So glad you can join in!
I love you…..have done so since your first book “Heart of the Home”. 😘🥰
I have to say … 😭😘
Lovely post. Thanks
You are such a delightful and joy filled human being. My Aunt gave my mom your Vineyard Seasons Cookbook back in 1989. My mom passed shortly thereafter but insisted I enjoy your extraordinary book. She loved to cook comfort food and knew I would as well. She was 59 y/o and I was 33y/o that year. I miss her everyday but always feel her near and all your books have helped that. You were one of her Final Gifts to me. I in turn always gift someone I love dearly with one of your books to add comfort to their life. You inspire me.
Heartfelt Gratitude, Heather
Heather! You are making me cry. Both you and she were much to young to lose each other. Of course, you never will truly lose her, but that hand on your arm, the arm around the shoulder, the look. All those wonderful touches.Thank you for those heartfelt words, just making me cry!
Thanks for the update, Susan! Have a great autumn weekend! Hope there isn’t too much rain!
Love Jack with the spider–perfect!
You always make me smile. Thank you!,
Thank you Susan for shining your light so brightly in the world! So, I heard that President Barack and first lady Michelle Obama moved to Martha’s Vineyard. I envision you and Joe dining under the stars with them in your beautiful backyard enjoying a compelling conversation and lots of laughter. “Isle of Dreams” right? 😉 Love, Karen
Uhhh, no. I’m pretty sure they bought a house. But probably we won’t see a whole lot of them!🤣 I don’t think they live here year-round, but then again, I don’t know what’s going on!!! I should maybe imagine that the way you are, love the whole idea!
I have never seen that video. How special! Love the ghost in the window!
I would love that quilt. I am a sentimental hoarder, and would proudly display that quilt.
Yee ha … can this be my entry 💭🌟
Must say you are such an Inspiration Susan …your blogs are super Di duper
Thankyou… Love from Corrina (England 🇬🇧)
You’re entered Corrina!
loverlee AS USUAL, how do you keep it up, I know ! it comes from within.
These days we are starved ! for nice and lovely.
Last night PBS showed a documentary called The Age Of Nature.
it so incredibly wonderful and uplifting that I got more than a tear in the ol eye.
Do have a looksee and see if its on your local PBS, it will be shown again next week 23rd.
if not maybe its on youtube.
I’ve been thinking about it all day as its the first bit of good news I’ve seen in a LONG time
I’ll look for it Carol, thank you!
Thank you for this! It was perfect.
Good luck with your Zoom meetings. I hope your roomies make an appearance.
I’m so lucky-my mom turns 95 on Monday! She’s a Susan friend too.
Send her my best Birthday wishes please! xoxo
Hope your tea party is a huge success!
I would truly love to win your generous prize. Thanks for being you. 🙂
I wish you well on the zoom events….I’m right there with you and having to learn! Oh and you got me to continue to watch more of the musica videos – oh how young they were. lol Thank you for saying hello even if for a brief update – Marla
I think the thought of setting up a ZOOM account is more intimidating then actually setting one up. I just upgraded mine yesterday and then immediately set up a meeting. It was really pretty easy peasy. Good luck and do it!
Oh gosh will miss your zoom. But I got your new Christmas book and I am so excited! I am a major fan have all your books and calendars every year.
What a lovely surprise to find your blog as I opened my e-mail. Sitting inside, taking a break from cleaning out closets, as we close up the beach house for winter. The front came through Corolla, N.C. about 1:30 this afternoon and the temperature dropped a good 15 degrees…it is chilly. The pool is covered, and the deck chairs put away. Everything cleaned up and ready for next spring. Casper looks very ghostly in your window, but in a friendly way, inviting the kids to trick or treat. Favorite month of the year…my birthday month!! Happy birth month to me!!
Hi Susan! I’ve been thinking about you this week. I received your “Heart of the Home” as a wedding shower gift and we celebrated our 30th anniversary on October 13th! Because our area has had an uptick of covid cases we had a dinner at home. I made your apple crisp (p.121) as dessert. This has been such a family favorite and I took a picture of the stained and spattered page but didn’t know where to send it to you. We became grandparents 2 months ago and I’m looking forward to the day when I can starting cooking my favorite Susan Branch recipes with my little guy!
Congratulations Wendy!!!
Your blog posts have been a lifesaver helping me get through this pandemic. I’m a healthcare worker and at the end of a stressful day…..The British Bake Off tv show and some Susan Branch are just what this girl needs to unwind and distract my mind.
Thank you so very much!!!
Shannon
Shannon ~ all my gratitude for what you do … I’m sure people tell you all the time, but THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart. So brave. It must be so difficult. Around here we wear masks to show our love for our healthcare workers. xoxoxo
Such a welcome treat today, especially that musica selection. I think Marie was a bit smitten with Andy.
And vice versa! 💞
Oh, thank you so much for the Musica of Lida Rose! Love it – so charming to hear it after so many years. ♥
It’s always a blessing to hear from you, Susan! Many, many thanks!
I hope your Zoom sessions will be a success. I love my Santa mug!
Ooooo! It’s been awhile since Vanna has been by! I think we all need a little surprise every now and then! ❤️🍂🌾🍁🍷
I look forward to reading your posts! It makes me smile to see it pop up! I wait until after a my day of teaching to spend time with you this way! What a wonderful way to wind down a busy week! Thank you for adding truth, goodness, and beauty into our world.
I love your ghost in the window !!! Good luck on your zoom meeting I know you’ll do fine. I know I hate it when I suddenly have to help my children with a computer question then to look up and see my face on their computer screen for everyone to see. So not use to that still. Oh well. I know I’m not the only mom with that dreaded feeling knowing she hasn’t any makeup on nor has she brushed her hair.
It does take some getting used to. I’ve never been a big lipstick wearer, and nothing feels sillier than putting it on when I’m practically in my jammies, but Zoom cries out, says, Lady, you have no lips!
Got my Christmas book . Anxiously awaiting my puzzle ! Love everything Susan branch!
Susan
I read your Isle of Dreams every July when I purchased it at Titcombs five years ago. Still my favorite. Thanks for this message.
Esther
Thanks Susan for brightening mine and everyone else’s day. Love to see that little cutie Jack and his fun moustache and Joe with his beret!!! I loved reading Home for Christmas–such a wonderful book bringing back memories of our Christmas gatherings in the 1950s.
Your mail is like a warm hug 🤗 It is the highlight of my day and I save them for last and get all cozy to enjoy them. Thank you for the smile
Your blogs always provide a breath of fresh air, especially in these crazy days,
Your letter brightened my day. Thank you so much for including me in your world.
Oh as usual you make afternoon tea a delight I am teacher and I can’t figure out zoom either have a blessed weekend
Love the picture of Joe and Jack! Two handsome boys!
Hello Susan! Greetings from Franklin, Tennessee! I love the friendly ghost you have in your window – so fun! Can’t wait to hear about the surprise next blog post. It’s so nice to have exciting things to look forward too 🙂
It is 100 degrees here in our little desert town in California. Way too hot for the middle of October. But reading your post made me feel instantly cooler and reminded me that fall really is here and surely it will arrive soon. During this “Covid” mess, your posts have made me smile. THANK YOU SUSAN!