🐄 Lil Treasures #93: Pumpkin-Palooza and a nicely shampooed cow

Hello friends. We made it to Friday! Hope you enjoyed this short work week and are all thriving in your own way. Please throw up some T’s and P’s for me and my family this weekend as we *hopefully* move into our new house. Three Airbnb’s and two hotels later, and I think it’s finally happening.

I’m a sucker for nostalgia, and I think that’s one of the things I miss most about having a home - the familiarity of belonging somewhere. It’s always been fascinating to me that a home can have a feel and a smell that is reflected in the persons that inhabit it. Tell me something good/unique/special about your home in the comments!

Okay, let’s do some treasures!

🎃  One of the first items on my list after I move in to said new home is to take part in the therapeutic fall tradition that is Trader Joes Pumkin-Palooza. That’s right, party people - the fall items are on the dang shelves! I have decided this will be part of my Fall Opening Ceremonies, along with finding some more pampas grass to cut from the Walgreens parking lot. In my house, we are very partial to the pumpkin cinnamon rolls and spiced apple cider. Her royal highness The Pioneer Woman put together a list of the greats if you want to do some research before you go! Be blessed.

❤️ I’ve got high hopes for Brene Brown’s new book Atlas of the Heart, coming out this November. Brene’s book addresses the topics of meaningful connection, human experience and storytelling. You can pre-order it now in anticipation! Get here soon, November 30th.

🍳 PSA: the perfect phone case finally exists! Give me all the smiley, cheerful breakfast foods.

👨🏻 For all my fellow Ted Lasso fans - NPR does a weekly episode recap that is so lovely! [It’s especially great if you need your Roy Kent fix while you wait for a new episode to be released].

😭 On today’s “hack-your-cry” segment, read this story about how Simone Biles gave Suni Lee’s dad the sweetest gift. And if that won’t make you tear up, take a second and read this inspiring letter that Sam Grewe, a Paralympic athlete, received while in Tokyo. Just embrace the tears, friends. Let them fall.

📺 I was a teenager during Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial in the 90’s, and it is one of my first vivid memories of understanding that something was wrong with politics. I’ve been anticipating the release of Impeachment: American Crime Story and now it’s finally here. Episode 1 aired this past week and it looks so spicy, I can’t wait to watch! If you’ve seen it, let me know your thoughts in the comments.

🐶 This has Ben Moon written all over it:

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And now for this week’s Twitter roundup:

Ginny Hogan_ @ginnyhogan_

The world right now is like Fyre Fest but for everyone

Word Conjure Woman @WilGafney

You Protestants with the short bibles are really missing out.

R. Eric Thomas @oureric

Clicking “Accept change” 300 times in an edited Word document and hoping it can somehow extend to my mindset. Yes, Clippy is my therapist. What of it?

Sarah Bessey @sarahbessey

Turns out pandemics don’t go away just because you’re tired of them!

jurdle @jurndan

The computer can beat me in chess but i can put the computer in the garbage

may zozi (check my pinned!) @coma_slut

We need to normalize shampooing cows

michael brown @boyinquestion

i would happily give up at *least* 10 years of my life for a singular taste of the pizza from a goofy movie

Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM

You cannot make people like you. You cannot make people believe you. You cannot change their minds if they want to think the worst of you. You cannot demand esteem. Put that wasted effort into following Jesus &, in his name, in his love & in his ways, do your fellow humans good.

Danté Stewart (Stew) @stewartdantec

Be gentle and attentive. So many people are in a long season of mourning.

Jaron Myers @jaronmyers

We’re all so emotionally damaged from this last year and a half that Steve from Blue’s Clues was like “I have to address the nation”

Owl! at the Library 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze

stop telling people to “act more adult,” adults have to be pretend not to be interested in outer space and the pyramids and fairy-tales and it’s very stressful

Enjoy your Friday, friends! May your weekend be filled with crockpot dips and weather under 85 degrees. Looking forward to reading your treasures in the comments!