Wednesday Hodgepodge - Volume 673
1. When you think of autumn what sounds come to mind?
Leaves crunching underfoot.
Leaves crunching underfoot.
2. Is a trip to the mountains something you enjoy? What's your favorite mountain?
I live in a valley surrounded by mountains, so a trip would be a short drive for me! I don’t have a favorite mountain. I grew up in a valley with one mountain, Mt. Diablo. I liked going to the lookout at the top, on a clear day you could see so far in all directions. There were also wind caves to climb into.
3. What's something that once felt like a mountain, but is now just a molehill?
I’m not so sure my former mountains shrunk as small as molehills, but having to figure life out after my husband died, with two children still minors, felt like a mountain. There are still struggles resulting from that event, even after more than 20 years.
4. Let's play this or that-fall foods edition. Yes you have to choose.
I can choose from two options when I like both, but I can’t choose from two options I despise!
• pumpkin spice latte or chai latte - absolutely neither one!
• pumpkin spice latte or chai latte - absolutely neither one!
• apple cider or hot chocolate - hot chocolate
• stew or chili – if I made the chili, chili. I like mine!
• sweet potato casserole or green bean casserole - once again, neither. Marshmallows spoil sweet potatoes, and I hate green bean casserole!
• stew or chili – if I made the chili, chili. I like mine!
• sweet potato casserole or green bean casserole - once again, neither. Marshmallows spoil sweet potatoes, and I hate green bean casserole!
• butternut squash soup or creamy mushroom soup - I don’t consider myself a picky eater at all, but, both are a huge ick for me! I never eat mushrooms, they taste like dirt (and are fungi after all, which I love to photograph!), and squash is never suitable for me in savories.
• cranberry sauce or gravy - cranberry sauce. It’s good on nice rolls like ciabatta, or sourdough bread, with leftover turkey and melted mozzarella.
• cranberry sauce or gravy - cranberry sauce. It’s good on nice rolls like ciabatta, or sourdough bread, with leftover turkey and melted mozzarella.
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| butternut squash pie - you can use any winter squash, it will taste the same as pumpkin |
5. Sum up your September in a sentence or two.
Expensive, I had to buy a new dryer. Then, I had to have an electrician install a new plug (the original was for a range, not a dryer).
6. Insert your own random thought here.
It’s been quite a month. Besides the dryer (I would have put it off longer but for an uncomfortable interaction with a homeless man at the laundromat), I’ve been working on my rotted deck removal. It’s been removed, and now I’m facing the question of “What do I do now?” I'm adding rocks around the area that will have something done. Don't worry, the plastic will go, it's the reason the deck was so rotted. At least Autumn is my favorite season, so there is that to cheer me up!
I'm with you on either/or questions. If I hate both, yeah, not going to pick one. Are you going to do a new deck, or just put in a slab or something?
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking something simple (and cheap) for now. Decomposed granite maybe. It's just $26 a yard. I don't need the area to be as large as it was with the deck. No reason it went beyond the edge of the house, there's a slab patio there.
DeleteI've never had that pie. I've made pumpkin pie but this is a new one for me.
ReplyDeleteThe canned pumpkin isn't even pumpkin, it's Dickenson's squash. I've made pies, muffins, cookies, etc. from acorn squash, and the warty French kind I've grown. It's all those spices that make the pumpkin pie flavor. I think sweet potato pie taste like it too, but it has a different texture. I like it more for that.
DeleteI'm fond of just about all of this!
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see you joining in the HP this week. We've been in our house ten years now so are doing some projects that need updating/replacing etc. We are going to replace our gutters with larger ones (the size we should have put in originally but no one suggested it and we didn't know) and it's expensive. We need to paint, but I'm hoping to put it off until next year. There's a bakery near us that makes a sweet potato cake and it's one of the most delicious things I've ever eaten. I will let you know when my A-Z goes live. They could do more communicating that's for sure. I assume my email with the post has been received, but I haven't heard from anyone yet. We'll see.
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