I love Autumn! And I love this post. Enjoy!
Life happens in our kitchen. Every day.
Which means it’s always clean but often a mess.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Humans like to hang out there and share stories.
Dogs like to sleep there and sometimes snore.
In the autumn, potted plants move in from the verandah.
English ivy sits on the window sill, Scotch Bonnet pepper sits on the floor.
Within a couple weeks, we’ll get dozens of ripe peppers….
… which we’ll give to relatives and friends. (I’m not a hot-pepper person, despite my Caribbean origins.)
Some days the whole kitchen smells of apples, cinnamon and other ingredients for pies….
…which DO include a tip of Jamaican rum, yes, and maple syrup too, since we’re a Jamaican-Canadian family.
Earlier, it was the fragrance of apple and mint jellies –
And as you can see, they’re still on the kitchen table — recent events having overtaken…
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Cynthia Reyes 
Enjoyed your post, Cynthia. Yes, the kitchen is the ‘heart of the home.’ Jealous though, your potted plants look much better than mine this year. Sweet pup and handsome husband too! 🙂 🙂 Have a wonderful weekend!
Thank you! That ‘handsome husband’ is my editor, Tim. We work well together, but I’m not sure either of us could handle being married to each other! (big smile) Have a wonderful weekend too.
Hahahaha! Well, tell him he’s very ‘handsome.’ 🙂 Thanks, Cynthia.
I love autumn too! But your home isn’t messy…it’s perfect! Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you! Happy Thanskgiving to your family too.
What a wonderful place! I love to visit with friends in their kitchens. I love to cook, too. It must be so gratifying to use fruits, vegetables and herbs that you have grown yourself. Thank you for sharing this glimpse of such a warm and happy home.
Thank you, Theresa. Arabella magazine published an excerpt from my next book, titled An Honest House (the excerpt). Farmhouses really do have that spirit of unpretentiousness about them, and we stewards – methinks — just learn to fall into line.
It’s always nice to take a tour with you Cynthia. You make people and place come alive with your words. Thanks.
Thank you, Brad. Kind of you to say so. How’s the poetry? I’ve been a bit out of things lately and might have missed one.
I’m chugging along, and still looking for work, so my focus is distracted, but I keep posting! cheers 🙂
I prefer the phrase “lived in”. Who wants to live in a museum or a magazine? Those are pictures of a house I would like to sit and have a cup of tea in.
Yes, Karen, but couldn’t I just please live in a magazine house for even one hour? Just for the experience of it? I’d take photos to remind me that my house was fabulously glamorous for an hour — before my family and I descended on it and started cooking and living in it….
The kitchen is the heart of the home. So many good things coming in from the garden and being turned into something delicious!
Aha! An Honest House! I like the sound of that.
I wish I had your space in the kitchen!
Anyway, I can smell your fragrances. Divine ☺️.
Thank you, Helen. A spacious kitchen is a gift.
My kitchen hasn’t been quite the same since my dishwasher broke down a month ago. Only a week to go now and I’ll have a new one. Ahhhh, that will be better 😀
It’s funny how we come to rely on things like dishwashers, isn’t it, Dianne? Here’s to the arrival of the new one!
You’ve fired me up, I wil try and grow garlic next year. I will have to bring the sweet peppers in any day now. They are just changing colour in the greenhouse, but it is unheated.
Sweet peppers! Do you roast and preserve them? They are sweet and lovely when roasted and the skins removed.
Every time I read a post like this, I want to come to your house for a long weekend and soak up the “homeyness.” I bet your kids love returning to the nest!
Maybe messy, (or at least in your perception – it didn’t look messy to me! 🙂 – but all the wonderful scents of Fall and home are there and that’s what counts.