Sunflowers and Slow-Cooker Chicken

I've been lazy about posting things from my home lately.  I put this area together a couple of weeks ago.  I like to use sunflowers as decorating with the late summer to fall transition.

I found this chicken on markdown at Pier 1.  Had my eye on it and decided to go for it. 

I kept the blue and white plates up and added these new red dishes with sunflowers.  I re-used my metal cylinder for some faux sunflowers.  

I have some very large white dishes from the same manufacturer that I've used in the past.  I fell for these red ones and ordered them on Amazon.  If I can I like to do something different each year.  The little chicken wire candle votives are old- from Pottery Barn quite a few years back.  I had slipped a pieces of a sunflower in the bottom of them and there they've stayed!

The corrugated tin cylinder was from Pottery Barn 1 or 2 years ago.  I added the burlap and twine to give it a little more substance. 

I found this cute checked planter with sunflowers on clearance at Pier 1 a little while back.  

I need to do a tablescape and use this!

I could have sold that white rooster about 20 times now.  Each year some contacts me through my blog about wanting to buy it.  I found it at Cracker Barrel back in 2013.

I'm not quite ready to warm up to the fall tones completely but it won't be long!

I made a dinner using the crockpot on Sunday and my first Apple pie this year!

I can definitely recommend the recipe and here is the link:

Slow Cooker Balsamic Honey-Glazed Chicken and Vegetables

"link"

My images aren't as perfect as theirs but it was as delicious as I hoped!

I used 6 chicken thighs instead of 4 and increased the vinegar and honey a tad because I also had more potatoes and carrots in the pot.

I made it just as they said and we loved it.  The recipe calls for pouring the liquid into the pan and reducing it which I did but it didn't thicken up much.  Either way it was a nice Sunday meal!

I used one of those plastic molds to press on the pie dough. 

Thinking of the "Big Apple" today and remember 9/11.

God Bless all those who perished and those who came to their rescue.

Joining:

Dishing & Digging It 

15 Years Ago 9/11 Happened- Let Us Remember

I come to the garden alone,  while the dew is still on the roses,

And the voice I hear falling on my ear the Son of God discloses

      And He Walks with me, and He talks with me,

      And He tells me I am His own;

      And the joy we share as we tarry there,

      None other has ever known.

He Speaks, and the sound of His voice is so sweet the birds hush their singing,

And the melody that He gave to me within my heart is ringing.

I'd stay in the garden with Him, though the night around me be falling,

But He bids me go; through the voice of woe His voice to me is calling.

God Bless 

America- We Will Go On

A while back I created a little video with a program on my computer using still photos.  

I wanted to pay tribute to America- From our spirit for independence and our continued determination to keep going on- even through the worst of times.  

Our country has stood together through a 
lot of tough times.

From the early days when we fought 

for our independence to that awful day of 9/11.... 

One thing that always stays true...

United We Stand.... 

Our spirit is strong....

We Will Go On

I'll never forget that morning of 9/11.

We were having our morning coffee watching the Today show....Katie Couric and Matt Lauer appeared with breaking news.. The look on their faces said a lot.  The story that unfolded was hard to grasp. 

I'll never forget.

Music by Daniel Rodriguez,

formerly a New York Policeman who gained

notoriety after 9/11