Welcome to Friday’s Fave Five, hosted by Susanne at Living to Tell the Story, in which we can share five of our favorite things from the last week, a wonderful exercise in looking for and appreciating the good things God blesses us with. Click on the button to learn more, then go to Susanne’s to read others’ faves and link up your own.
It’s been a pretty good week! Here are some of my favorites from it:
1. Meals from favorite places. My husband took us out to Cheddar’s one night, and then one day when I was out running errands, I stopped and got take-out from Cracker Barrel.
2. Oven meals. I think I must say this every year about this time, but I don’t use the oven much in the summer, so when the weather turns cooler it’s nice to get back to some meals we haven’t had in months. Plus it is nice to get something in the oven and then rest or do something else for an hour or so.
3. A new futon. The one we had in the sewing room was Jason and Mittu’s, which they needed back when they moved into a 2 BR apartment a few weeks ago.
4. The futon cover. There is a story behind that…We had ordered a dark blue cover, and when Jim picked it up, out in the sunlight it looked blue. But in the room it looked jet black. I really wanted blue, so we took it back. We showed them the difference between the swatch we chose from and the cover we got, but they just said, “Oh, yeah, it varies from time to time.” 😦 But they did offer to let us exchange it. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find anything else we liked. On the way home, we remembered that we still had a cover from our other futon that had a white streak on it (which was why we sent for a new one). That cover was for a queen sized futon and the new one was full-sized, so I washed it and dried it on low….the streak disappeared and it shrunk just enough to fit just right on the new mattress. I was a happy camper.
5. Coolness. The temperatures have been so pleasant this week. I wish it could stay like this through, oh, about December or January.Or spring. 🙂
Have a great weekend!
Stray Thoughts 
It is always a pleasure to read your favorites for the week…..I’ve never eaten at Cheddar’s.
Mama Bear
You are lucky with your weather ours here in Belgium is rather grey, windy cold and humid ! What a nice surprise after washing your futon and it shrinked, lol !
I’ve never been to a Cheddars, but I have heard that they’re good–I’ll have to put that on one of my lists of things to do/see/eat 🙂 I, too, love when the weather gets cooler and I can start using the oven again.
We have neither Cheddar’s or Cracker Barrel. But it’s nice to bring take out home sometimes!
That’s great that the cover fit just right for you. It was a good idea you had.
It’s still been very warm around here so haven’t been trying the oven too much but I’m looking forward to starting to use it more again. That and the crockpot!
Love the Futon story! 😉 Have a great weekend.
sounds like you enjoyed a nice week with pleasant surprises …..like that futon cover working out for you!! that is a HUGE blessing!! the futon is cute!! Have a happy weekend…..
Great story about how your futon cover worked out! I’d be a happy camper, too. I love Cheddar’s, too.
Enjoy your nice weather…have a great week ahead.
I’m with you. Fall could last until spring. I’d like that, too.
There are no Cheddars in our area, but I would enjoy take out from Cracker Barrel anytime!
so they make ‘mood’ futon covers, changing from time to time? Glad it ended up working out for you anyway.
I love solutions like the one you found for the futon. Especially when a retail solution doesn’t work! So you are finally getting into fall with cooler temps and cooking in the oven — we’re expecting 105F today….
Very resourceful with the old futon cover. We’ve been looking into futons lately. I never thought I’d want one but I rearranged the bookshelves in our house and decluttered (even ditching one of our computers -yikes!) and now we have some space I want to make sort of cozy-ish.
I’ve heard of Chedders before but have never eaten there. What is it?