harvest

 The ski areas are not so thrilled but boy oh boy has the late autumn weather been nice in northern Utah!  It was chilly at the start of the week: 24 F in the morning, warming to mid 40s F.  But it was sunny and warmed slightly through the week.  It would have been great weather for hiking - we had some home chores stacking up, however, and once again did not get out on the trails.  Note that this will lead to a sparseness of content around here in the short term.

Autumnal colors

Saturday was quite nice, mostly to partly sunny with a high of 67 F.  Milton and I did our 4ish mile walk, then cleaned up the front yard, finally taking down all the sunflowers.  H mowed and then set to work digging out the shut-off valve for the sprinkler system (having sprinklers is such a hassle).  While he did that - and Milton supervised, and got treats delivered to him by our neighbor - I puttered around in the kitchen.

At least we like winter squash 

better than summer squash

I'm trying to be better about food waste and so rescued a small unwanted pie pumpkin from a Halloween display at work.  We also had a butternut squash from our CSA so I whole-roasted them both, then scooped out the guts (and made roasted pumpkin seeds, which we immediately devoured). Those two squashes yielded nine cups of puree (mash, really)!  I froze most of it but also made a batch of pumpkin muffins (and may have snuck some squash into a mulligatawny soup as well.