Task it Tuesday - Sept 15

Originally created by The Geeky Blogger, Task it Tuesday is a weekly meme to help you--and me--get things done. The challenge is to post a task or list of tasks you want to complete before next Tuesday. These tasks can help you with your blogging life, reading life, personal or professional life.

How are you today? I hope you're having a good week. I listed a new property yesterday and am staging another one today, so the week started off a bit crazy. I get to meet my sister for breakfast on Thursday, though, so that will be nice.

My list is fairly the same from last week. Some of the tasks moved to this week and others are continued from last week. A couple are new.

• Daily Bible reading
• Finish social media calendar for book promotion
• Walking three days
• Two client meetings
• Stage new listing
• Continue fall cleaning
• Change decorations
• Keep reading Morning Star
• Finish Chapter 5 in editing project
• Clean the shed roof
• Look into getting a small dumpster
• Set up Mass Save audit

That's it for me this week. I hope you can tackle your to-do list.

Mailbox Monday - Nov 25

Mailbox Monday is a meme started by Marcia of To Be Continued. Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week. It now has a permanent home at the Mailbox Monday blog.

Happy Monday, everyone! I hope all my USA friends are prepared for Thanksgiving. I made myself a promise to shop early so I can avoid the grocery store this week.

With the work schedule slowing down a bit I was able to clean the living areas, put up some fall decorations, get some reading done, and enjoy lunch out with our church family. Since the church split up, we don't see one another as much as we used to, and we knew once the holidays are upon us we might not be getting together. What a tremendous blessing to see each other and spend a few hours catching up.

I still haven't settled on a new church. Nothing has felt right yet. Part of that might be because the girls remain angry over what happened and refuse to attend a new church, so I go by myself or with my mother-in-law when she is here. I would love to attend as a family again. 

My physical mailbox was empty, but I grabbed this Kindle freebie on Sunday. It is the first in a series. I hope I get to read at least one seasonal book before December ends. 

I pray all of those celebrating Thanksgiving find it to be a day filled with happiness and blessings.

Fall Decorating Ideas

As soon as the girls head back to school, my mind starts thinking about decorating for fall. I have to admit that original decorating isn't my strong suit, but give me an image and I can come up with something. Here are links to some fall decorating ideas you might like. Since we live in New England--a place known for its great fall colors--I tend to lean more toward native decorating ideas.

Yankee Magazine offers 10 simple ways to add garden style to your home in this article: http://www.yankeemagazine.com/gardening-advice-ideas/simple-ways-to-decorate-for-fall

The Heart of New England has a list of classic ideas that never go out of style at http://www.theheartofnewengland.com/garden/autumn-decorations.html

This article from Country Living talks about a bed and breakfast in Comfort, Texas, but the photos offer some lovely autumn decorating ideas: http://www.countryliving.com/homes/how-to-get-the-look/comfort-common-bed-breakfast-1005#slide-1

Looking for some fall gardening ideas? Try this article from
Better Homes and Gardens: http://www.bhg.com/gardening/gardening-by-region/northeast/

About Home has an article offering "8 tips for Fall and Winter Container Gardening" at http://containergardening.about.com/od/containersyearround/a/falltowinter.htm

Finally, this series of photos on HGTV FrontDoor includes "7 Curb Appeal Tips for Fall": http://www.frontdoor.com/photos/curb-appeal-tips-for-fall

Hope you have fun and share links to your photos when you're done.