Happy Autumn

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The weather is finally cooler here, although it still gets a little bit on the hot side in the middle of the day. Still, my t-shirts are now swapped out for sweatshirts or layered with a cardigan. Toddler boy still needed some cool weather clothes and there was money available in the checking account today, so we stopped by Savers to see what might fit him (as well as to browse through their Halloween costumes). We found 4 pairs of pants for him, (1 pair of corduroys, a red fleece pair, and 2 pairs of "running pants") plus a Peanuts Great Pumpkin t-shirt that will fit me, all for under $20. We've been badly needing to restock on green vegetables but had been waiting for today's payday. We picked up 3 tubs of spinach (one was a spinach/baby kale/chard/mizuna mix), some lettuce, a bag of grapes, a flat of canned green beans (these are our emergency backup vegetables, and we had none left at all!), several packages of frozen green beans and broccoli, plus some frozen vegetable and bean mixtures that looked like might be good foundations for meals. I made two different kinds of stew for dinner -- pork and butternut squash with greens, and beef with carrots/potatoes/celery/green beans -- so both the adventurous eaters and picky eaters would be happy. We had this with sourdough bread and butter. The picture above is a lot like how I remember the lane to my childhood home in the autumn. We lived around a lot of oak and maple trees, and the colors were more vibrant than they get here. I miss it.