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Good morning friends! Happy Friday and welcome to October. It is hard to believer that we are heading into the last quarter of 2021; the last 2 years seem like a blur. I am excited for the next few months, not only because of the holidays and all that entails but also because I will be celebrating my 55 birthday, spending lots of time with my family and hopefully seeing some progress on the house.

I have lots to share with you this week and surprise a lot of my favorite finds revolve around food. Pull up a chair, get yourself a warm or cool beverage and enjoy.

Food

Cooler days call for warm hearty comfort food and today I am sharing a few recipes that you might want to add to your weekly meal plan.

Pumpkin Feta Pasta or Pumpkin Sausage Pasta and 14 Fall Pasta Recipes That Make Perfect Weeknight Dinners.

Or you could skip the pasta and have Spaghetti Squash with Feta and Herbs!

Cranberry Apple Beef Stew is a new flavor combination to me but I am definitely going to try it.

If you missed it, yesterday I shared 5 Fall Salads You Will Want to Week All Year Long .

and an easy and delicious recipe for Apple Crumble Bars.

Wednesday was National Coffee Day, although I do not drink coffee I know that many of you do, this Iced Mocha will be a refreshing coffee chocolate fix for the warm days still ahead.

Apple Pie Oatmeal  is a family favorite at my house!

If you are looking for more Fall recipes and inspiration you might want to check out my Fall Pinterest Board or my Fall Baking Board.

It is never to early to think about Christmas! April Harris is hosting a workshop November 13th to teach you how to make your own Homemade British Christmas Cake!

Interesting Articles

I stopped Using Social Media and What I do instead.

How the delta variant stole Christmas: Empty shelves, long waits — and yes, higher prices

The Supply Chain Mystery

Simone Biles Chose Herself “I should have quit way before Tokyo.”

How to Run Slower to Run Faster

How to Trick Your Brain Into Releasing Chemicals That Make You Happy

Interesting, Revenge Bedtime Procrastination.

You Aren’t Lazy. You Just Need To Slow Down.

You Can’t Change Your Life Until You Change Your Life

Maine’s Next Generation Of Lobstermen Brace For Unprecedented Change

How the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker became one of the world’s most contentious thinkers.

Gibraltar cave chamber discovery could shed light on Neanderthals’ culture.

Our Brains Were Not Built for This Much Uncertainty

This is so cool, Watch A Massive Violin Transport Musicians Down Venice’s Grand Canal.

The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

Fall Garden Prep: 10 Tips to Improve Your Soil and Garden So That is is Ready Next Spring

My friend Jeanne of Collage of Life shared this video for Faire and it looks fascinating.

Books

Life is What You Bake It

Popular baking personality and lawyer turned baker Vallery Lomas was ecstatic when she learned she won the third season of The Great American Baking Show. However, her win was never seen by the world—Vallery’s season was pulled after just a few episodes when one of the judges became a focal point in a Me Too accusation. Rather than throwing in her whisk and lamenting all of the missed opportunities she hoped to receive (Book deal! Product endorsements! TV show!), she held her head high and hustled—which resulted in her getting press coverage everywhere from CNN to People magazine.

I pre-ordered Baking With Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple for myself and for gifts. I own all of her cookbooks and I love them all. One of my favorite recipes which is perfect for Fall and Winter is her All in One Holiday Bundt Cake and a another is Hidden Berry Tart.

This week I read The Tenth Muse, if you have Kindle Unlimited you can read it for $1.99!

On her quest to conquer the Riemann Hypothesis, the greatest unsolved mathematical problem of her time, she turns to a theorem with a mysterious history that holds both the lock and key to her identity, and to secrets long buried during World War II in Germany. Forced to confront some of the most consequential events of the twentieth century and rethink everything she knows of herself, she strives to take her place in the world of higher mathematics and finds kinship in the stories of the women who came before her–their love of the language of numbers connecting them across generation.

The Book That Matters Most

Ava’s twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children are pursuing their own lives outside of the country. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out of sheer desperation for companionship. The group’s goal throughout the year is for each member to present the book that matters most to them. Ava rediscovers a mysterious book from her childhood—one that helped her through the traumas of the untimely deaths of her sister and mother. Alternating with Ava’s story is that of her troubled daughter Maggie, who, living in Paris, descends into a destructive relationship with an older man. Ava’s mission to find that book and its enigmatic author takes her on a quest that unravels the secrets of her past and offers her and Maggie the chance to remake their lives.

2 Children’s Books for Christmas

Finds for Fall

The unique color combination of this  caught my eye as did the 

I love everything about this

Finds for Christmas

Marbled paper library cocktail napkins would make a wonderful gift.

I love this

And this

If you have any holiday party plans thisis perfect.

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That is it for this week my friends. I hope that you found something that you enjoyed and as always I hope that you share all of your recipes, book suggestions or whatever else that you found interesting this week.

Have w beautiful and safe weekend.