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Isn't she a beauty?!

My mother sometimes gives me a rose plant because she knows I'm crazy for roses. The problem is, many times, they come so beautiful but sometime later they begin to look not so nice and eventually, they die.
So this one is stil in all its splendour and I couldn't help showing you.
Just look at that!

Raining outside

It's raining outside but here, in the house, it feels good.
My cyclamen, that my husband gave me, is very nice. I can't say the same about some others in the windowsill. They need a bit of prunning. I should take more care of my plants.
Gardening time.

Christmas is coming

I don't know what it is.
In the end of October I was already dreaming about Christmas - as I always do. Then it came November and in the begining it was still hot. No spirit of Christmas at all. Later, the Autumn arrived in full force and I, so enchanted with the beauty of the season, didn't want to think on Christmas, I only wanted to feel the fresh air, the golden leaves falling down and covering the floor.
Now I'm late, I'm late.
Not really. I even bought some Christmas presents already, in October.
So, it's time to really think about Christmas, to wrap the already bought presents, to buy more, to do things, to plan and act.
I'm rather pleased with the header of my blog and the look of it all together but it's time to make it chrtistmassy.
So, oficialy, today begins the red and green season here at Alfazema.

To Do

Today I must clean the top of the fridge.

So, let me put my apron on.

Um... I must water that plant too.

Almost lunch time

Chilly leftover from yesterday's dinner on top of noodles.
Just an idea for your lunch.

Apple season

Some days ago my husband made this apple pie. It was very good and nice. Today I will make apple crumble. I'm not a fruit person but cooked apples, in a way or another, always have my attention.
Autumn, with all its beauty, has the added bonus of bringing apples too.
Apple season is in full and it will only end in the end of spring.
Well, in my house, I mean.

Autumn, definitely

It has been wet and coldish. Autumn, definitely.

The clothes, put to dry on the lines, take time to dry. Each morning the floor is wet as it had rained and sometimes it does.

For the english people and in other cold countries this is so frequent and normal but for us so as much because, due to global warming, the summer extended itself for so long that looked like we wouldn't have any Autumn at all. But no, here it is.

And I'm so happy about it.

So, in a minute, I will wash some more clothes - in our house it must be done everyday with rain or not - and put it on the line.

The fresh air is good too, not only the sun. Even when there's any it's worthwhile to put it outside. Much better the than dryer.

Here I go for a load: wash, dry (outside), take it inside, fold it and put away to have the drawers full.

It gives so much confort to find all the clothes we need ready to wear. Looks like a small thing but no, taking care of our laundry is to take care of our family. It's an important job.

For Blissfully Domestic.

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A full pantry

...or being prepared.



We are a family of 6, a big family for european standards - and what to say for this corner of Europe standards! We need to be prepared and have a full pantry.
Well, looking to several blog's well stocked cupboards, I reminded some pictures I took of mine some time ago. (So, maybe some of you have seen them already).



I must say, also, that my cupboards are in a urgent need of tidying up so they can be prepared to welcome the lot of things we need to buy before Christmas.



I'm always so much afraid of needing something in the days before the big event that I always buy a lot. I don't mind if, in the end I don't need as much because it stays for the days after.

For instance. It's a tradition, here, to have several fried wonderful things for Christmas Day and Eve so, I can't buy only two bottles of sunflower oil, I feel I must buy four, the same with flour, sugar and so on. It's quite ok because the result is I wouldn't need many things in January and the feeling of buying a lot makes me feel more in the season, a bit like the ants, storing things for Winter.



Well, time for homemaking now. I'll let you know about the progress in the tidying up.
The buying will begin is some weeks.



For Blissfully Domestic.