Pump/Kin

 

...bread, that is, for the first day of Fall!

Yerm

 

Chocolate chip pumpkin bread...delicious (and very very rich!). 

Number One

The first pumpkin has arrived--yay!

(I'm not done with Philadelphia photos, just haven't had time to sort/edit them yet--more on the way!)

Ewwwww

 We love pumpkins around here, and we always try to pick out unusual ones. This warty fellow seemed cool. He's been with us for about 4 days.

I came home on Monday and I thought, "Wow, some dog has come up here and peed on this pumpkin!" Then I realized, um, no, the pumpkin is leaking.

I left it, in part to show B. and in part because I thought that disposal of a rotting gourd might be a two-person job (and it was, BTW).

I looked out to see if the mailman had left anything on the porch and saw that the pumpkin had fallen and could not get up (it also had quite a serious leakage problem).

So, EWWWW! It's now in many pieces in the garbage, having turned black and smelling like fermenting vegetal matter. The flies are enjoying the hell out of it...

Pumpkin Palooza

On Saturday Robin from Various and Sunday and I made a little trip down to Imperial Beach to Pumpkin Palooza, held at the very cool Suzie's Farm. Suzie's Farm is an organic farm that supplies vegetables to many of the city's restaurants.

There was music, food (pumpkin chili from the God Save the Cuisine food truck, yum!), and fun: pumpkins and chickens enjoying pumpkins! Y'all know I loves me a chicken...

A good time was had by all--including the chickens.

Pumpkin-y Muffin-y

A really easy and yummy pumpkin muffin recipe. But baking cups? They are the devil's work.