The Weather Outside is Frightful...

Wind is howling, rain is pelting, leaves and sticks hitting the windows,the storm windows rattle, the house shudders, the dog won't even go outside in this mess... and I'm really surprised the power is still on.

I thought we were to have a mild winter because of the wooley bear caterpillar. Yes, those fuzzy black and orange ones you see scooting across the road in the fall time. Tradition says that the larger the orange band, the milder the winter. Well, Mr. Bear, you lie. The leaves have not yet turned here on good ole Cape Cod and yet Mother Nature sends us this nasty Nor'easter! 18" of snow at my friend's house in Connecticut! It's October and just the other day it was a balmy 65 degrees. Could this strange weather pattern be due to the warmings of the globe? Who knows...Or perhaps I got it wrong ~ the larger the orange band, the more brutal this winter will be? That sounds about right.

Why do friends try to set me up with strange men?

Just yesterday, my dearest, funniest, oldest friend tried to set me up with a guy whom she lives vicariously through. "He travels a lot, he has a lot of friends and he goes away for long weekends making jewelry in the woods!" And then it dawns on me- This is the guy she tried to set me up with years ago, right after my divorce who is a freaking minstrel at the King Richard's Faire. Yes, a king's playmate, someone who wears tights and bells and traipses around the woods on the autumnal solstice, presumably noshing on giant turkey legs and singing tales of woe accompanied by a small wooden guitar and a monkey. Ummm, no thanks sweetie. I'd rather be single on a Friday night with a good book than contemplate me becoming his lady in waiting, clad in a floor length velour ensemble skipping through pine needle forests, thank you. But please do continue offering me up your single friends. Sooner or later I'll find Mr. Right:)

Pumpkin Recipes

When the breezes get nippier and the leaves swirl around underfoot, baking with pumpkin calls my name! Check out these awesome recipe links to pumpkin deliciousness:


Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Pancakes:

Pumpkin Whoopie Pies (vegan):

Pumpkin Muffins:

Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Frosting

Starbuck's Pumpkin Scones:

Pumpkin Casserole with Crunchy Nut Topping

Crock Pot Pumpkin Butter

 

In the News

Couple Married 72 Years Dies Holding Hands - Des Moines News Story - KCCI Des Moines

Like in Nicolas Spark's "The Notebook" ~ It leaves a happy place in my heart to know true love still exists.

  

 

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