Look at this photo very carefully. What’s wrong with this picture? Well, other than the fact that it’s a bit blurry–what else is really, REally wrong here? Hmmmm?
Ha! There now. That’s much better.
Daney-boy has told me many times that his favorite memory in the world was when he was little and and came home from school to find the house all decorated for Halloween…just like magic! He missed it even when he was far, far away in Lithuania.
Oh, but now look this direction. Tsk…tsk. Positively dreadful.
Just a few subtle changes…here and there. Would you like to see them up close? Okkkk…try not to be too frightened. {snicker, snicker}
Even though our gorgeous mountains are a bit slow to completely change into their autumn colors, still, there is plenty of evidence that Autumn is weaving all around us.
There are the blue skies that turn into sudden hail storms…
Have you ever heard of Bountiful Baskets? If you have and you know all about it then you have my permission to ignore me…well, wait, not entirely…but go check out the Crafting Tutorials or something.
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But if, like me, you are new to the idea of a food co-op then you may just want to check this out.
Here’s how it goes. You go to the Bountiful Baskets website and scope it out, click around and read the rules.
Next you follow the directions for signing up for the baskets at your location.
Then, on Monday evening at about 8 o’clock–times may vary in your area–you log in to the site…
and order a basket and whatever else you want that they are offering that week–and pay right there online.
The basic basket is $15 and is 50% fruit and 50% vegetables—totally random stuff, differing from week to week. This week’s also included celery, lettuce and broccoli–but they were already put away–so no picture.
The items you can order separately could be tortillas, 9 grain bread or chewy granola–to name a few.
Then the following Saturday you show up at the prearranged site—with your own empty box or basket and pick up your loot. It’s very cool and kind of exciting to see what will be in the basket each week.
I do, however, have a word or two of warning.
Do not, under any circumstances, push the “ORDER” button more than once–not even if it says the server is down and come back later. Don’t think that you’ll just push the “ORDER” button, oh, say FOUR times because it doesn’t seem to be moving fast enough, or because you want to make sure that it is really, truly working.
Just don’t do it, or you–my friend–could end up with a bigger busload of fruit and vegetables than even Farmer MacGreggor would know what to do with. And then, you’ll have to figure out how to eat it all…fast.
I don’t actually remember this particular Halloween, but that’s because I’m the little one in the shot. Laurie was a pink cat or something and Andy was a skeleton. Sweatshirts and masks.
My favorite things are the tiny pumpkins. I always felt sorry for them at the store, because I was afraid they’d be left behind. To this day, that’s the size I buy.
Don’t you sometimes wish that it could all be this simple again?
All right now…tell me if you can…have you ever seen anything so cute in all your life?!! Sweet little baby acorns.
I first saw these in an issue of Disney’s Family Time magazine and could not resist. They were so easy that it’s quite likely you don’t really need the instructions–but humor me.
Start with glazed donut holes…
and chocolate frosting, peanut butter or nutella. To me, the choice was obvious–but you do what you want.
You’ll also need crushed toffee bits and/or
those little chocolate sprinkly things.
Now, then–to impress upon your mind exactly how easy these little do-dads were to whip up, this is exactly when we started the process.
I should have been cool and poured the Nutella in a bowl, but having been raised by wolves, as I was–I just dipped it right out of the container. Don’t tell my family.
Now dip those little suckers in whichever topping you prefer–toffee bits or the sprinkly things.
Oh, I forgot to tell you that you’ll also need a small bag of stick pretzels. Snap about a third off and eat it. Don’t bite it off because that’s just tacky. Stick the pretzel piece in the top of your acorn.
Start to finish, INCLUDING clean-up. No lie and no Photoshop. Now that’s fast.
Be on the lookout for squirrels…or large teen-age boys pretending to be squirrels.
