Happy October 31st!

 Just a few funnies for today.

This will always be my favorite Halloween picture. My daughter carving a pumpkin while her daughter looks on! (That little girl is now almost 16 years old. What?!?)

Have a fun day!!

A Quiet Month

Seems like I just posted about the 1st of October last week and suddenly, here it is the 24th! It's been a nice, quiet month. Warmer than we would like, but oh, the days are gorgeous! Deep blue skies and trees beginning to turn. Our prairie fire sumacs and Virginia creepers are bright red now and the cottonwood trees are yellow and green mingled. Next month, our oaks will turn bronze and deep red. The trees know it's late October even if the thermometer doesn't! We are hoping for some rain next week and maybe temperatures in the 70's instead of upper 80's. I don't think it's rained in a month or more. Autumn always comes later this far south, but the last two years have been unusually warm and dry on into November.

I've been baking the small pie pumpkins, processing them and freezing them for pumpkin pies and bread for the holidays. It just tastes better than canned pumpkin to us. I bought 4, but when I cut one open, it was rotten. Still, I got four 2-cup containers out of the other three. 1 container equals 1 can of pumpkin. I made muffins with the small amount leftover and they were good. We like to spread them with cream cheese!

Our son and his two youngest (4 and 3) are coming for the weekend. Their older brothers are off showing cattle, so the littles are going to get a trip of their own to Mimi and Pops house. Guess I'll have to do some housework and bake some cookies!

Happy October!

A Little Fall in the House

 No, that the fall down type, thank goodness. I just now got around to putting out some fall decor. I've been down with the C**vid and haven't felt like doing anything much. I'm glad to say it's over now-just generally tired and that's getting better. Anyway, I thought I'd post the few things I've done. I'm no decorator (or photographer!), but I enjoyed doing it and it makes me happy which is the main thing!

Have a good rest of the week!

Finally!!

 

Rainy and Chile

 Well, false fall was nice while it lasted. We had cool temps and rainy days last week, but today will bring us to a week or so of second summer. 

However, there is a bright spot-the day is gorgeous, if warm and Hatch Green Chile season is upon us here in Texas. We were actually born and raised in southern New Mexico not many miles from Hatch and then spent 8 years in the Santa Fe area. Roasting green Chile is the smell of September in New Mexico. (So is freshly picked, tree-ripened apples, but that's another story.) But even here in north Central Texas, Hatch chile can be found. A small grocery store nearby was selling cases of big beautiful Hatch green chiles and roasting them today, so we stopped and got one. They are now chilling out in our freezer waiting to be rellenos, enchiladas and green Chile chicken or pork stew! The key is to get it from the roaster to the freezer as quickly as possible, because nothing breeds bacteria faster than lukewarm chile. We don't even peel them before we pack them into freezer bags and into the freezer. They peel better after they've been frozen and start to thaw anyway. If you get a chance, and they are available where you are-getcha some!

Rain!

 So thankful for this cool, rainy day. It's an answer to many prayers!