OLD FAVORITES - PART 1

I have chosen seven favorites that I am going to post for seven days, including this one. If you remember them from the last time I shared, I hope you will enjoy the repeat performance.

Have a great weekend everyone.

NOW THAT WE ARE OFFICIALLY INTO THE AUTUMN....

I am sharing a farmer's market shop owned by Whitehall Farm, link here.  We were there two weeks ago.

It is not exactly around the corner, otherwise we would be there all the time.  On the way we passed these cyclists enjoying the sunshine.

A great day for a bike ride.

Twenty minutes or so later we were pulling into the parking lot.  We started out very early and it was during the week.  No other cars. It is closed Monday and Tuesday, and it crossed my mind that it was closed when we arrived.  But it was just very quiet.

They have a Fall Festival and I believe this is one of the hayride wagons.

Inside the store it had a light and cheery air.  I liked the fall decorations and enjoyed browsing over all the items we could purchase.

We bought fresh tomatoes, a bag of onions, a baguette, bread and butter pickles which was Gregg's choice, a jar of honey, my choice, and dark chocolate covered coffee beans, also my choice.  Quite a varied collection.

I first discovered how much I liked chocolate covered coffee beans at a coffee shop in one of our strip malls ages ago.  They always placed three on the side of my coffee cup, but stopped the practice several months ago.  "What?", I said, "No more chocolate covered coffee beans?"  Now whenever I come across them it is a special treat.  I do the same as the coffee shop, and eat two or three beans with my morning cup of coffee.  Zips me right through the day!

Time to go back and get more!

There were many things that interested us in this shop, the olive oil for instance.  They had all kinds of different flavors.

I asked if I could take a few photos and they readily agreed.  The decorations were very festive.

It's beginning to feel like Fall.

What are your favorite Autumn things? Here are some of mine.

Sweater weather and Homemade soup

Hot Apple Cider and Hot Chocolate

Sitting by the fire

That feeling of drawing in 

your breath on a crisp day

Walks in the evenings and

smelling wood smoke from

the neighbors' chimneys

Walking on crunchy leaves

while walking through the woods

Seeing all the pumpkins

Carved pumpkins too

The first Fall Mums on sale

To name a few...

 and wishing all my friends

HELLO OCTOBER!

I can smell Autumn in the breeze,

The sweet smell of pumpkin,

Crisp gold and red leaves.

~Author Unknown~

Hello October!

Hello Fall!

Leaves falling,

Autumn's calling.

And all at once,

Summer turned into Fall.

AUTUMN THEME TODAY

I saw these at one of the supermarkets.

I am fascinated by the 'bumpy' pumpkins that look like there are peanut shells growing all over them.  They are actually called Peanut Pumpkins and have been in France since 1883.  They were introduced to the United States commercially in 2010.  The bumpy-looking skin appears on the surface of a seemingly regular pumpkin when sugar extrudes through the skin.  It begins to crackle and form the peanut shell-like shapes even after the pumpkin has been harvested.

So, no Monday Recipe Post today but here is a video on how to use one of these Peanut Pumpkins.  If you can't open the video you can look at it here.



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