Fall....

So it is really fall... the chill in the air, the lack of light in the morning and evening, and (obviously) the leaves falling. I am using a fellow bloggers post on "Maximizing Fall" as a jumping off point this morning.

Friday I made an apple bacon and cabbage dish that was quite good. this is only the second time I have ever prepared cabbage, and I was quite pleased with the results. Not quite maximising fall, but since the bacon, cabbage and apples all came from the Frankfort farmers market It was utilizing local/ seasonal foods. Fall count: .5 Friday I also worked on making the crusts to my apple pie.

Saturday I got up ran errands and then started on my apple pie. making dough for a crust is easy. rolling said dough out proved to be much harder. I ended up not having a double crusted, but a crumb top instead. Its OK though, it was still delicious. (score count for fall 1.5)

Saturday evening was Bill's 10 year HS reunion. It was fun (more so for Bill). I hung out with Mitul's girlfriend Christy all evening, which was nice.

Sunday brought the farmers market and a purchase of half a bushel of Apples (what ever that means) a pumpkin for pie /roasting and more bacon and eggs.

Yesterday evening, I made 5 1/2 lb of tomatoes into sauce, which is apparently nothing compared to my cousin (45lbs?!). I count this as maximizing fall because canning (or in my lame case freezing) is a fall activity. Fall count: 3 (.5 for getting the apples and pumpkin, but not quite apple picking :) )

Up on deck this week:
Dad is coming to visit!
Garlic shipped today!
First night below freezing :(

wow too many posts today

but i can't pass up linking you all to this article on the freakonomics blog.

Bid Part III

well that is really too bad. I think most people were confident that it was down to Chicago and Rio, so to be knocked out in the first round is really disappointing.

Olympic bid II

I was reading an article about the final pitch for the bid today on NBC5.com (here is the link) and they quoted Daley.

"Chicago will deliver," Daley said, "because in Chicago we just don't talk about what we will do, we do it."

So, I send this over to Bill and point out the quote and he says to me

Bill: nice

i think i want that on a t-shirt

along with a picture of a tommy gun and meigs field

Now I am picturing the orange shirts (which why orange... they look like a see of IDoT cones) with:

and:

Olympic bid day

snapped these when I was walking into work today. I liked seeing the massive amount of news crews all lined up in the street.

I know people have mixed opinions on getting the 2016 bid, but I must say I was so proud of our city when I walked past Daley Plaza this morning.