Bermuda anyone? or Puerto Rico? How about Cabo?

Okay then. 

It's snowing again.

Our forecast is 4-7 inches today. 

No worries. 

I'm going to be alright.

I am not going to binge eat chocolate.....
 

 Jon has already used the SnowJo on the deck.  Maggie keeps watch because that machine might need herding. It could get out of line.



I am baking bread today and once it is out of the oven I'm going out there to run my snow blower.  Time to clear the walkways. 

(I swear I have not been eating dark chocolate covered blueberries while I am baking the bread)

Clinging to Fall....

Mother Nature makes a different decision.

Final preparations for winter.

We are ready for the snow that's in our forecast.  Retired Mountain Man has been burning his brush piles.  Most of his dahlias have all been pruned, dug up, divided and marked for storage until next year. 

We have enjoyed some very beautiful fall colors in the early morning hours and the evenings.  It has been spectacular.

Here it is.  Our first snowfall.   There are still a few leaves clinging to our birch tree.

The frost is on the fuchsia.

Our first snowfall for October 2017.  Winter forecast?  I hope not.  My begonia and fuchsia plants are both still blooming during the snowfall but this is truly the end of summer 2017.

I don't mind the snowy and rainy weather since today is jelly-making day.  It's finally time to do something with the grape juice and to make one of my favorite jams, Hot Pepper Jam.  It's so good on cornbread or as an appetizer on cream cheese with crackers.

Salsa Day

Sometime last April I declared that I was no longer going to can very much salsa.  I should never make declarations.  I gave away several dozen canning jars.  It turns out that this year I set a record.  I have put up 68 pints of salsa.  Sixty-eight! 

I ran out of jars.  

The next photo is one I took of my new stove.   It's not good when your stove quits on you in the middle of canning season.

It's a beautiful October Sunday and the Seahawks won!