Life's Little and Not So Little Pleasures

Good Sunday evening everyone and thank you for coming Through My Back Door. You bet the coffee is on and tonight it is Pumpkin Spice from the Fresh Market. It is so fall! Why don't you grab the mug of your choice and sit down and visit. I have been gone the last two weekends to Pigeon Forge. Last week I went on the family girl trip with Beth, Amanda, Deb, and the children. This last week end I went with three women from my card group of 28 years. We have been going this same weekend for 5 years. We stay at the Inn at Christmas Place. That is where we spent last week end too. It is decorated for Christmas year round and is a fabulous place. They are so friendly and make it a special visit. Santa entertains the little ones a couple of nights a week, singing and playing the guitar. They then get snacks. Everyone is so friendly and go out of their way to make it pleasant. Across the street is a wonderful Christmas store and next door to that is a Partridge and the Pear, that offers an excellent dining experience. If you are in PF and can't get reservations, at least stop in and visit. They welcome it. We hadn't been there long last week until Andrew knew the names of James the doorman, Nathan the pool guy, and Nate our waiter. He had so much fun. I am sorry I have no pictures. Bet you all hate that, don't you?lol
I will show you my one purchase this week end at the craft show. This is the weekend of the Nawgers Nob, craft show over in Townsend. (They call Townsend the quiet side of the smokies.) That is why we go up. It is so much fun.

I wish they hadn't painted it but they did. I don't dislike the color, I just prefer things left alone. They had added a nail too, but I like it anyway. What do you think?
To me the last two weekends with family and friends are lifes  not so little pleasures. The pantry box is a little pleasure. It is the little pleasures that sometimes bring joy to you. I love sitting and drinking coffee, visiting, listening to your hopes and your dreams. Those are not so little pleasures. What do you consider not so little pleasures?

Another of lifes little pleasures is candy corn in the fall. I can't be with out it.lol

Decorating for fall is a little pleasure. Having things and people around you that you love is a not so little pleasure.

Seeing the old dinner bell up, a few mums and the concrete bee skep from Toni, is a not so little pleasure. The dinner bell brings back wonderful memories I have shared before. The bee skep reminds me of Toni the friend who made it and whom I met at the Pantry Gathering.

We all know how I feel about this fellow. He is the worlds best dog. I know some of you will beg to differ and isn't that a not so little pleasure? We can disagree and still be friends?
Remember this little girl I rescued?

She has gone to her new home and she already loves them and they her. Isn't God good? She may have just been nothing to some one who through her away like trash, but now she is special. Dasko misses her but she is happy. Now that is a not so little pleasure.
You have given me a not so little pleasure by coming through my back door where life is good.
betty
ps: Speaking of little and not little pleasures reminds me. Please be kind to everyone you meet and say something nice. The last words they ever hear may be yours, and you would want them to be kind. wouldn't you?