QOTW - What are your favorite ways to Enjoy Fall

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( ) , " wwjd " <jtwigg wrote:

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> Question of the Week - sorry this is late.

>

> What are your favorite ways that you enjoy fall?

 

 

 

Pulling out the many, many blankets we snuggle under all winter. Eating

Halloween candy. Starting to bake more bread. I want to get out the pasta

machine

and get serious about getting good at making homemade pasta. Christmas

cookies. Starting Christmas food gifts. Fires in the backyard fire pit. Amy

 

 

 

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Thursday, November 01, 2007 8:31 PM

QOTW - What are your favorite ways to Enjoy Fall

 

 

Question of the Week - sorry this is late.

 

What are your favorite ways that you enjoy fall?

Cooking special things, apple picking, drives to see fall colors, entering

homemade things in a local fall fair, pick up nuts, cracking and shelling

them, picking persimmons, decorate, making apple cider, sauce, apple butter.

I love the Holidays and Seasons. Celebrating them make life seem more

joyful and festive. Can't wait to hear your answers!

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I'm finishing putting up my fall decorations today. Oh it makes our home

so happy and puts a smile on all of our faces. When we lived in Georgia, I

would love to go pick apples in the north Ga. mountains, on a nice fall leaf

color day and enjoy Helen, Ga(German village), hike in a park and picnic. I

still do love to go for a drive, hiking and a picnic, but I'm not sure where

the apple orchards are here in Alabama. Maybe next year I can find out. I

love Fuji and Gala apples!

 

I have a friend whose fuji persimmon tree is always productive. She has

been very generous and let me pick some. I love them. My persimmon trees

will one day be that productive I hope!

 

Hickory and pecans are ripe and falling everywhere in this are now. When I

was a kid, we would go to the pecan farms, and they had some clamp thing

they put around the trees and would shake the trees to make them drop the

nuts. Then folks in the area would pick them up for so much per pound.

It was my extra spending money. There was a chesnut tree that a childhood

friend had. Boy was that a prickly situation to deal with, when collecting

them. They have an extra shell that is full of sharp spikes. They tasted

so good roasted in the oven.

 

I love to open the windows, bake Ms. Smith's Mince Meat Pie or Pumpkin Pie

and have some cloves and cinammon sticks simmering in my small potporri

crock pot.

 

Happy Fall,

Judy

 

 

 

 

 

 

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, " wwjd " <jtwigg wrote:

>

> Question of the Week - sorry this is late.

>

> What are your favorite ways that you enjoy fall?

Doing more eating then cooking it seems this time of year. I also

enjoy the colder weather.

Lee

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I make a lot more comfort food this time of the year. Stews and soups

and plenty of apple and pumpkin pies too.

 

Zena

 

 

, " paisleytrees "

<paisleytrees wrote:

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> , " wwjd " <jtwigg@> wrote:

> >

> > Question of the Week - sorry this is late.

> >

> > What are your favorite ways that you enjoy fall?

> Doing more eating then cooking it seems this time of year. I also

> enjoy the colder weather.

> Lee

>

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The beauty of the trees this time of year takes my breath away..I ride around

photographing them to use in my altered art.

janet

 

 

 

paisleytrees <paisleytrees

 

Thu, 1 Nov 2007 6:14 pm

Re: QOTW - What are your favorite ways to Enjoy Fall

 

 

 

, " wwjd " <jtwigg wrote:

>

> Question of the Week - sorry this is late.

>

> What are your favorite ways that you enjoy fall?

Doing more eating then cooking it seems this time of year. I also

enjoy the colder weather.

Lee

 

 

 

 

 

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I burn my Pumpkin Spice soy candles all over the house with the windows open a

bit. Getting my garden ready for winter. Long walks with my dog, Ginger, along

the Perkiomenville Trail is probably my favorite thing to do in fall.

 

~Barb

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This year since I have been excersizing (walking outside) alot.. I

am enjoying the weather and looking at all the trees and leaves with

or with out leaves.. Used I would just complain about the cool

weather and that was it..

 

This year I am enjoying it

 

HUGS

Jenn

 

, " wwjd " <jtwigg wrote:

>

> Question of the Week - sorry this is late.

>

> What are your favorite ways that you enjoy fall?

> Cooking special things, apple picking, drives to see fall colors,

entering

> homemade things in a local fall fair, pick up nuts, cracking and

shelling

> them, picking persimmons, decorate, making apple cider, sauce,

apple butter.

> I love the Holidays and Seasons. Celebrating them make life seem

more

> joyful and festive. Can't wait to hear your answers!

> ---------

>

> I'm finishing putting up my fall decorations today. Oh it makes

our home

> so happy and puts a smile on all of our faces. When we lived in

Georgia, I

> would love to go pick apples in the north Ga. mountains, on a nice

fall leaf

> color day and enjoy Helen, Ga(German village), hike in a park and

picnic. I

> still do love to go for a drive, hiking and a picnic, but I'm not

sure where

> the apple orchards are here in Alabama. Maybe next year I can

find out. I

> love Fuji and Gala apples!

>

> I have a friend whose fuji persimmon tree is always productive.

She has

> been very generous and let me pick some. I love them. My

persimmon trees

> will one day be that productive I hope!

>

> Hickory and pecans are ripe and falling everywhere in this are

now. When I

> was a kid, we would go to the pecan farms, and they had some clamp

thing

> they put around the trees and would shake the trees to make them

drop the

> nuts. Then folks in the area would pick them up for so much per

pound.

> It was my extra spending money. There was a chesnut tree that a

childhood

> friend had. Boy was that a prickly situation to deal with, when

collecting

> them. They have an extra shell that is full of sharp spikes.

They tasted

> so good roasted in the oven.

>

> I love to open the windows, bake Ms. Smith's Mince Meat Pie or

Pumpkin Pie

> and have some cloves and cinammon sticks simmering in my small

potporri

> crock pot.

>

> Happy Fall,

> Judy

>

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I like surfing in the summer but the fall is cool too. I can wear my

sweats and jog instead.

 

Mark

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Pumpkin everything and spending time with Mom

-Erin

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What a great question, Judy! This is by far my favorite season. I

love being outside this time of year, with the clear, crisp days,

changing leaves, Halloween decorations, and migrations. We live near a

big lake, and one of my favorite going out there in the morning when

it's quiet and watching the birds overhead. This is the time of year

that we start seeing falcons Some of my favorite fall things to eat

are roasted chestnuts, sweet potatoes any old way, yummy tart apples

baked up, soups, and stews. By the way, is anyone else suddenly craving

spicier food? This is the first time I've noticed it so dramatically as

soon as the temperature dropped, but I've also had my first really yucky

cold in many years, so maybe I'm just trying to break through the

taste-proof force field. Oooh, I also love bundling up under the covers

at night, and that the cats are so much snugglier Happy fall, everyone!

 

Peace,

Maureen

 

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>

>

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My cats are snugglier too, Maureen. In bed I feel quite hemmed in,

with one cat on top of the duvet on either side of me. Foodwise, I

cannot face the thought of salad - eating a plate of lettuce has

about as much appeal right now as grazing on a plate of grass. At the

moment whatever I eat has to have a mound of steamed veggies to

accompany it. Last night's dinner was brown basmati rice and crockpot

farm stand chilli (from Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker) served

with broccoli, runner beans, baby sweetcorn, baby carrots and petits

pois. I eat spicy food, soups and stews all the time, but then we

don't get such extremes in climate as in many parts of the world and

in fact this whole year seems to have been one extended autumn.

Christie in Edinburgh

 

, Maureen <ailanthus

wrote:

>

> What a great question, Judy! This is by far my favorite season.

I

> love being outside this time of year, with the clear, crisp days,

> changing leaves, Halloween decorations, and migrations. We live

near a

> big lake, and one of my favorite going out there in the morning

when

> it's quiet and watching the birds overhead. This is the time of

year

> that we start seeing falcons Some of my favorite fall things to

eat

> are roasted chestnuts, sweet potatoes any old way, yummy tart

apples

> baked up, soups, and stews. By the way, is anyone else suddenly

craving

> spicier food? This is the first time I've noticed it so

dramatically as

> soon as the temperature dropped, but I've also had my first really

yucky

> cold in many years, so maybe I'm just trying to break through the

> taste-proof force field. Oooh, I also love bundling up under the

covers

> at night, and that the cats are so much snugglier Happy fall,

everyone!

>

> Peace,

> Maureen

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I really appreciate reading all your wonderful and positive responses,

many of you seem to enjoy fall. I am one of the strange people that

does not like seasons. It must have something to do with coming of age

in the tropics, where there were no seasons. Days and nights are

pretty much the same length of time all year around, and the

temperature does not change where I grew up. Autumn is my least

favorite season, but reading your posts is giving me ideas on how to

get trough it, if not fully appreciate it. Well the reason I said

autumn is my least favorite season is because here in southern

California we have fall transitioning directly into spring and

skipping winter. This is already a positive thing, at least there is

no winter (if we had winter then THAT would be my least favorite

season). OK, another positive thing is that it is the only time of

the year when I get into baking pies and cookies. I do not have a much

of a sweet tooth but I do it to make other people happy, and this in

turn makes me happy.

Cabrita @ Los Angeles, CA

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, " paisleytrees "

<paisleytrees wrote:

>

> , " wwjd " <jtwigg@> wrote:

> >

> > Question of the Week - sorry this is late.

> >

> > What are your favorite ways that you enjoy fall?

> Doing more eating then cooking it seems this time of year. I also

> enjoy the colder weather.

> Lee

>

 

as for me i love walking in the parks and watching the great colours on

the trees. At time time o year everything seems to be calmer and

slower. I laso love the colder weather.

 

sharon