I love fall. There’s just something magical in the air when the season changes, especially when the summer has been hot. Right now, the weather is in the low 80s and the nights are cooling down. The leaves have just started to change color and the squirrels in my trees…
So my husband and I moved from Portland, Oregon to Charlotte, North Carolina in August, and, as one might imagine when moving, one of the biggest differences is the weather. Fall in the Pacific Northwest is beautiful, but short. The leaves change color and then fall off the trees in…
Where I live, summer didn’t gradually bleed into fall. It abruptly ended with no warning and no gently goodbye. Usually our Septembers are cool in the morning, reaching mid-70s by the end of the day, but the week after Labor Day fall came in with the bang. I think…
Happy fall! Autumn in the Pacific Northwest was turning out to be really nice, with 60-70 degree days and lots of sunshine. Then the rain and wind dumped yesterday and I woke up to my driveway and backyard covered in leaves and branches on the ground. As we were pulling…
Do you ever get that feeling like you’ve missed the boat? It appears once October ended, so did apple season. It’s like November needs to be called pumpkin month. So I apologize if you’re completely over apples and on to pumpkins. A few weeks ago, we went to an apple…
At the school where I work, it is tradition to have a chili cook-off on the first teacher grading day of the year. It works a little something like this. You make a chili. You bring the chili to school in a crock-pot. You drop it off and someone gives…
It’s funny how come fall, I crave pumpkin. Between September and November I can’t tell you how many pumpkin related food I make, but once Thanksgiving hits, I have no desire to eat, think about, or make anything pumpkin. Is anyone else with me on this one? And while I’m being honest…
So I have been on hiatus for a year and a half. Wow, I wasn’t planning on taking that long of a break! During my absence, I put off renewing my website domain name. Actually, it was more of a lapse on my part, one of those I’ll-get-to-it-when-I-have-a-free-moment kind of…
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