Last evening I spoke to a dear friend who I hadn’t talked to in a LONG time.  She works during the day so I can’t chat with her just any old time like I can some other friends.  And she’s got a family to tend too in the evenings so time passes and we don’t get to talk.  But we had a little time to catch up last evening and that was really nice.

I’ll not post my schedule today, but I have found that I’m getting more accomplished by chopping my day into 3 blocks and making myself do those things (or as many as I can) during that time frame.

Yesterday, I’d planned to make oatmeal cookies, but never got the time.  So today I’ll try making the cookies or maybe even banana bread…yummy!  I’ve got about 5 “bad” bananas that need to be used quickly or frozen for later use.

Over the summer, working at especially the Farmer’s Market here in town I learned so much about freezing & preserving from my neighbor farmer gal.   I am letting less produce waste than I use too.  If it doesn’t seem that I’m going to use something before it goes bad, I chop it up for later use in a veggie soup or for when I make broth.

And I’ve discovered the diversity of turnips too this summer!  The other day I made homemade mashed potatoes and I put a small turnip in with the tators to boil.  I mashed it up right along side the potatoes and you could not tell it was there.  Another way to sneak a different veggie into our meals without knowing…I love that!!

Oh!  And it snowed here last night.  It was just flurries, but it was still snow!  Dave was very excited.  He said that early snow fall sometimes predicts a nice heavy snow year.  Yeah!  We’ve had decent snow coverage the two winters I’ve lived in New England, but I’ve heard they haven’t been just really awesome snow years so I’m looking forward this winter.

We still haven’t turned our heat on yet this season.  It is almost becoming a quest to make it all the way through October before turning it on.  It has been nippy here a few evenings, but by the time you are all cuddled and asleep in bed you don’t notice a chill.  During the day, I’m up moving around and cooking so I don’t get really chilled.  Our house leaks air through these hundred year old windows like crazy.  So we’re just trying to go as long as possible without heating the neighborhood.  Thankfully, both Dave & I like it cold otherwise there might be consternation.

Well, it is nearly 8:00 so I’d better get moving on chores.