Thank you so much for your lovely comments on my last post and your positive feedback as to whether I should blog about my honeymoon after all these years. I am so pleased that you are interested, and I would love to tell you all about it. I will be posting all about our honeymoon during the next week or two, so watch this space!
In the meantime, I am delighting in all of the autumn beauty (except for the rain!) and I thought it would be fun to create another seasonal bucket list, like this one from the summer. I managed to tick off the majority of the fun things from my summer list, but there are a few that I did not get to indulge in, so I shall save those for next year!
Visit a pumpkin patch
Carve a pumpkin
Bake snickerdoodles
Sip mulled cider
Go to the theatre
Make a conker wreath
Make caramel apples
Find the perfect cognac brown boots
Make chutney for Christmas
Take more walks in the forest
What is on your list of fun things to do this autumn?
Oh gee! And here I was reveling in the fact that you inspired me to go to concerts and on a boat ride in doing that summer list. No clue did I do it all since I can't remember it. Do I have an autumn bucket list? Maybe finish the long list of writing I had begun in March. Many articles written. I will be doing new curtains in dining room window–once they arrive. And washing the window–once I rent a sandblaster to blast off who knows how long of grime. So from that it follows I should make a sand castle in the dining room with the fallen sand. Maybe as a plan in reserve. I don't carve pumpkins since wretched offspring went awol. She used to spearhead a "pumpkin festival," which was just us and we carved, ate pumpkin foods and were a family. Those were the days. I do plan to drive more often down the one street around here with fall color. Oh my the pressure, the pressure. I might have to rely on you and your beautiful posts to have a vicarious autumn since here it's more like summer anyway. Oh I just remember–I DO plan to make some big batch items and freeze my "Nancy Cuisines" so I have stuff in the freezer to eat on lazy nights. Last year I did none so this year any will be more. Happy autumn Morwenna!! I hope you have many fun activities and adventures!
Happy Monday, Morwenna – though yours is now nighttime where you are!
We accidentally grew pumpkins in our garden this season. They came up from our compost and have given us a better harvest than we had the times we actually tried to grow them! They are, however, field pumpkins, and probably lack some of the flavor of the pie pumpkin variety. At any rate, we roasted one last week, and I have been enjoying doing all the pumpkin baking I can do! It is quite a pumpkin fest around here.
One of our favorite things to do in autumn is to attend my college Homecoming. Our three daughters are also graduates, and we often have a sort of mini-family reunion on the campus during Homecoming week-end.
We are still awaiting some of that vibrant leaf color that some are reporting. Perhaps after all this rain – along with the cooler temps – there will be some of that – unless the wind blows all the leaves to the ground!
Autumn is glorious and after having visited Winchester, I am so excited to hear about Farmer's Markets there as well….I can just see you!!
What shall I do in Autumn? Dig up plants that can be replanted next year, trim back plants so they can re-fuel themselves over winter, harvest basil and make pesto, put in a few soil amendments and kitchen scraps to invigorate the soil for Spring, and rake leaves…..yes, I have leaves!!! xoxo
What a fun, fall bucket list you've made! We visited a pumpkin patch this weekend. The girls had lots of fun picking out their pumpkins for Halloween! A couple things on my fall list is to bake an acorn squash. I've never tried it and I just love their shape. And, I want to jump in leaf piles! We don't have enough leaves on the ground yet, but very soon we will!!