5 on Friday: October 9, 2015

1. There's a gorgeous free October calendar download. Click the image to get to the website for your own download.

Thank you Oana Befort!!! it comes in desktop and phone sizes.

2. Still finalizing the withdrawals I need to make from my IRAs. The one drawback to getting past 70.

3. I got cut up with Project Life this week! Yay! now it's time to finish up the SW trip images. I'm not sure if these are going to be layouts or just printed for pocket pages in the 2015 album. Maybe a few insert cards for journaling.

4. This Lightroom Tutorial on Keyboarding, Rating and People seemed to be especially useful in particular if you have not used this feature of LR.

5. While himself was away for a week, I was seriously glad to have that free time. Mainly because I had time to watch 48, 48!, episodes of Homeland.

That was all of the first four seasons which I needed to watch before season\on 5 started. It was all I did for most of that week and glad I don't plan to do it again for a while.

Have a great weekend, enjoy some pumpkin spice flavored something while that flavor is still somewhat seasonally fresh!

5 on Friday: October 2, 2015

1. Dismal start to October with chilly rain from the advance of Hurricane Joaquin. Right now it isn't supposed to hit us but I'll wait to see what happens this weekend. Chilly rain is fall weather so I shouldn't be surprised.

2. I had a knitting lesson last night! We Ladies had a posole dinner and then some knitting lessons. One woman did the casting on for me but then I plodded my way through a row and a half. Slowly. Very slowly. The table looked better than my knitting but that photo seems to have disappeared faster than the posole & cornbread did!

3. I'm finally into season four of Homeland before season five starts on Sunday. I did manage to watch 3 full seasons this week! When I picked up today's newspaper there was a headline on the Style section about this season's opener. I had to cover it up quickly but the spoiler did get into my brain. BooHiss.


4. I saw this on FB shared by Lynn Grieveson and found it fascinating, especially as I am half Lithuanian. Colorful Doors in Lithuania.

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5. One book that I looked forward to in my reading of the Comissario Brunetti series by Donna Leon was a big disappointment.  Donna always has more comments on the state of government and morals in her beloved Venice but that is balanced by the main story and even more so by the wonderful descriptions of his family life and his meals. They make me want to get into the kitchen and cook! I don't recommend "By Its Cover" especially if this were to be your first in the 22+ book series. The earlier ones are much much better.

See you on Monday!