Best Shot Monday

Best Shot Monday

Words are hiding under the warmth of clean sheets and down comforters. I'm letting them sleep.

Hello October. (And Best Shot Monday)

Hi you.

October, I must admit, I'd leave my current month for you, any time of the year.

With your delicious apples,
your costumes and celebrations of dead,
your fog,
tea,
warm pants,
sweatshirts that feel like hugs,
pumpkin patches,
root vegetables,
knitted socks,
scarves,
slouchy hats,
Harry Potter,
cinnamon candles,
and crunchy leaves.

October, you're lovely.

This month is a month of reinvention in many ways for me. With the seasons change comes a different rhythm in the days.

Mornings were once spent taking care of business and afternoons were for closing the curtains and beating the heat. Warm weather means e-mails on the patio and iced tea, long walks with the pups, and trips to the beach in tank tops and sarongs. Warm weather is knitting light and airy shawls, lacy slouchy hats, and getting ready to leave in ten minutes flat.

October, you bring me layers that feel like hugs, socktoberfest (in which I'll knit my first pair of socks), Uggs and hot tea, mornings spent huddled by the fire and evenings filled with soup and checkers (because it's too cold and windy for the oceanside). Cooler weather means brisker walks and worrying about putting a sweater on the dog. Crispy leaves and crunching pine needles under my feet. And rain, oh glorious rain! There is nothing like rain falling in the forest... And luckily, I live in the forest.

October, I've been waiting for you since March.

P.S. I couldn't pick just one snapshot for BSM, so here you have four.

Best Shot Monday

And by popular demand:

The Hot Buttered Rum Recipe!

--4 cups warm water
--1 cup dark brown sugar
--1/4 cup butter
--1 pinch salt (even if your butter is salted, go ahead and add it)
--2 sticks cinnamon
--3 whole cloves
--1/4 tsp nutmeg

to add later:
--shot or 2 of rum
--splash of egg nog (Pumpkin egg nog could be really good here. )

Directions:
Use a 2-4 quart crock pot. Add water, brown sugar, butter, salt, cinnamon sticks, cloves, and nutmeg to the crock pot. Cover and cook on high for 1-2 hours, or until the butter has melted and the mixture is quite hot. Ladle into a mug with a shot or 2 of rum, and add a splash of egg nog.

Garnish with a sprinkle of nutmeg and cinnamon if you'd like.

Hope you're all having a lovely Monday!

Best Shot Monday

Taken through the car window off of Highway 5.