Thanksgiving Prep Begins

All of the candy is gone.  I made over 100 candy bags plus one whole basket of loose candy and there is none left.  It was a perfect night for trick or treating.  I've already started to knock off some Thanksgiving tasks.  I like to get as much done ahead of time as possible.

I polished some of the silver.  I'm having the biggest Thanksgiving I've ever hosted so I bought a set of vintage silver on ebay.  You can get these sets fairly cheap.

 And I made pie crusts for 8 pies.  I place my dough in jumbo sized baggies.

 I flour them first.

 Then I roll them out and zip the bag shut.

 Stacked up and placed in the freezer.  This makes pie baking so much easier.

 My husband and daughter handed out the candy last night.  I couldn't bear to go out there without Teddy.  Just before it got dark, I peaked out to see the trick or treaters and I saw this rose blooming on the pergola right over the spot where Teddy would always lay.  In all the years I've had these roses, I've never seen a bloom on them this late in the year.  There are hardly any leaves left on the bush.  I looked at all my other rose bushes and there was not a sign of a rose anywhere.

I think it's Teddy.