Autumn is here! It’s my favorite season! The leaves are turning, hoodie sweatshirts are keeping me warm, and every year at this time in the season I’m a little giddy about wool socks. We love our wool socks here in Northern Minnesota.
Local Honeycrisp apples are the best! By local, I mean LOCAL! My neighbors across the street are urban farmers with a small orchard in their front yard, and his wife gifted us with six apples from their tree. The apples are enormous, crispy, and the most perfect heavenly flavor imaginable.
My other neighbor, also an amazing gardner, grows grapes on the side of her garage. It was a plentiful year for grapes, and after picking several boxes, she told my kidlets they could pick whatever was left, and we ended up with several mixing bowls filled to the brim with fresh off the vine Concord grapes. My neighbor clued me into the fact that they make excellent jam, and I modified a few recipes I found on the internet and ended up with an amazing tart, zesty and flavorful jam that is making me very happy when I spread it on my breakfast toast.
Earlier this month we used Social Print Studio to print photo postcards, and we were thrilled with the result. The postcards were large, printed on great paper, and were very fun to write on and take to the mail collection box at the post office.
Chocolate covered graham crackers have become my favorite treat at our favorite candy shop up the north shore. I love the crunch of the cracker with the chocolate. They’re not too sweet, and so something about them is so satisfying. Along with a great glass of milk, it’s a terrific little splurge.
I have a new kitchen faucet! Our old kitchen faucet had a random mishap and for no apparent reason decided not to turn the hot water off, so I had to turn the hot water off below the sink. For a few weeks we were heating up water in a big pot on the stove to wash dishes, which wasn’t as big of a deal as it sounds, but Dr. Peds decided that the old faucet didn’t ever really work quite right anyway, and it was time to replace it. The new faucet is lovely. The water pressure is back up, and having hot water whenever we want it is really nice. I’m grateful.
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