Tag: Fall

  • September Small Goals

    August went super fast. It started off with me falling down our stairs and injuring my tailbone (on our wedding anniversary, to add insult to injury). From there, we attended an old friend’s beautiful wedding, started getting quotes for a new boiler, road tripped to Pittsburgh to go to Abstractions, and spent a day in…

  • A Book, A Blanket, A Day Without Work

    You guys, I feel like I am still not back into the swing of things after vacation . . . at the beginning of September. Since then, I’ve been going nonstop with the day job, freelance work, learning opportunities, and meetups. And I need a break. A few days ago, I tweeted, “Sometime this month I am…

  • Brooklyn Pumpkin Tour

    Can you imagine anything more exciting than a Brooklyn Pumpkin Tour? I certainly can’t. Brooklyn Based just published a post on where to get the best pumpkin stuffs in the area. They also link to this Pumpkin Ale Chocolate Cake recipe. Mmm-hmm. This whoopie pie doesn’t look like it quite measures up to my Amish/Mennonite…

  • Pumpkin and chocolate

    I’m fairly certain the combination of pumpkin and chocolate is to me what peanut butter and jelly is to normal people. Unfortunately, I really only partake of this delicious marriage of foods in the fall. Fortunately, I’ve done an awful lot of partaking so far this fall. I’ve made two batches of pumpkin and chocolate…

  • Weekend To-Do List

    I had plans to have a really autumnal weekend . . . farmers’ market, fall foliage viewing, mulled cider, pumpkin bread — the works! However, I have had to alter my plans. Now . . . Stay inside Drink lotsa hot chocolate and lattes and other warm drinks Bake pumpkin bread and pumpkin muffins and…

  • Fall

    So, today I hung some pieces of my fall wardrobe in a willow tree behind our apartment to take photos for an article I just wrote for Tango Echo. I got some interesting pictures. Here are a couple from the makeshift photo shoot that I didn’t submit. Antique necklace found at Dairyland Antique Co-op Bronze…