September 27, 2009

Well September begins to draw to a close, the days are getting shorter, the leaves on the tree are beginning to turn colors, and the weather is starting to cool. We got up yesterday to run and it was only 45. Pretty chilly in our shorts and short-sleeved shirts. Not too much to report since my last posting as I'm trying to get back on a weekly schedule.

We were actually home for once this weekend which was a nice change of pace. On Friday we spent the late afternoon in our garden harvesting some of our last crops for the year. We got in the potatoes which while we had a plentiful amount, none of them was particularly large. Seems to be a theme with our garden - root crops are always pretty small. Might spend the winter trying to figure that one out. We also brought in another good crop of green and yellow beans. We now have about 25 frozen packs ready for winter eating. The only crop left is sweet potatoes. But with the cool, wet weather we had for most of the year we aren't holding out a lot of hope for seeing large potatoes.

Saturday dawned beautiful, although as mentioned above, cool. After our morning exercise we finished up harvesting the potatoes and then spent the afternoon preparing Shepherd's Pie for dinner. Dinner was over at Sheri and Bruno's and Shepherd's Pie travels really well. On the way over we stopped for our favorite apple cider and cider donuts at a local apple orchard/cider mill. Will be enjoying those donuts in just a bit this morning. We finished the evening with tickets to the Granite Theater in Westerly. Today is raining so will be doing some catching up on indoors chores and reading.

The pictorial for the week is a couple of shots of downtown NY that Jo took from the helicopter
during one of her trips to NY. She also took a few of the Waterford/New London area that I might use next week. Just a warning in case vista shots leave you queasy.