The fog was in the valleys below this morning when I went to get the paper but it was clear when we sit at the top of the hill. The sun was just coming up and so many things had a golden glow. Another beautiful day begins.
This view is towards the east and Hessel Rd. You can see the multiple-family mailbox by the road and some of the stumps of Lawson Cypress trees that we had to cut down as they aged out.
These last ten or twelve days have been my kind of weather, with highs in the mid-70s, but cool mornings and evenings. Some mornings have had pretty dense fog, even here at the top of the hill. Usually early November the temperature highs are in the 60s, but we are coming up on that time by the end of the week and we'll be getting rain, too. Then it will be truly fall, in my opinion.
The garden is still producing tomatoes, but all the rest of the food plants are finished and, in general, the garden is shutting down. Soon I'll be filling up the green can with spent plants and putting the can by Hessel Rd. on a Monday evening.
Our laundry project continues. We removed the hugs wall cabinet today and I did more sorting. The good news is that things are being thrown out and that I now know we have plenty of cards to send this Christmas. The bad news is that we still haven't figured out what to put up on the walls for storage now that we can configure the storage any way we like. Hoping the nail that down tomorrow!
Although I did make a pie today with some canned pumpkin and some roasted butternut squash, there won't be a recipe today. With the exception of subbing in some butternut squash for some pumpkin, I just used the regular recipe. I did bake it in a cast iron skillet instead of a pie dish, but otherwise it was just another pumpkin pie. Since I love pumpkin pie, that is just fine with me!
