watching the big dude before it leaves netflix, and drinking a–you guessed it–  caucasian.  oops, i mean inhaled it.

festival lunch:  homemade from scratch pumpkin soup with fresh sage and spices, middle eastern baked spinach potato latkes, spiced maple apples, and sour cream.

wow, what an evening.  on the way to finding a place to watch the eclipse, we saw–elephants!  i kid you not.  must be a circus in town.  then we found a dark farm field to watch the whole thing for a couple of hours.  all the clouds cleared out in time and it was astounding.  then we heard a pack of coyotes howling right across the field from us–i suppose at the moon!  we sort of got going then.

of course all my phone shots just look like a tiny blob of light, it figures.  but it was a beautiful light show, so surreal.  here are not very good shots of the beginning.  somehow a huge glowing red orb of light hanging in the sky was invisible to my poor excuse for a camera.  but anyway we got to see it with our own eyes.

it looks like a pumpkin pie, smells like a pumpkin pie, and the verdict is in:  it tastes like a pumpkin pie!  i have corroboration that this indeed is a pumpkin pie.  it’s a miracle.  i actually got it just right, and from scratch.  it only took me hours of slavery in the kitchen, but it was worth it.  and there you have it.  i am awesome.  ;D

as promised, here they are:  pumpkin pies FROM SCRATCH.  and beer.

trying to get festive here.

oh, and we mustn’t forget this.  nice and dry, too.

it appears i missed a day, so i shall have to make up for it.  for starters, here are some pretty plants outside.  happy almost sukkot.  i didn’t make a sukkah.  i may be making a pumpkin pie from scratch later, stay tuned for that major event.  we’ll see how that goes…

just hunkering down here for the duration.  here are cheery erev pics.