and onto november

 Seriously, though, where did October go?  It's my favorite month and it went much, much too fast.  Perhaps it just seems to have gone quickly because the last couple of weekends have been mostly (if not all) rainy.  It certain did cut down on outdoors activity.  The mountains have been getting some snow, though, so that's very, very good.

Moody Wasatch mountains

Milton and I have managed to get our 3-5 mile weekend walks in.  Sunday's was pretty rainy: it was only in the high 40s F so we opted for the shorter 3.25 mile distance, thinking that a soggy dog might get chilled if we did the full five.  On Saturday, however, we did get in the full Dimple Dell loop.  We got to see several of our dog friends; Milton got some gratuitous biscuits; and I nabbed a street squash for Milton's benefit: someone in the neighborhood had a five-gallon bucket full of butternut squashes out on the curb with a FREE sign ("Please leave the bucket tho").

And then I had to walk for 3.5

miles carrying the darn thing

Things baked: espresso chip oatmeal cookies (good); Irish soda bread (bad but good for dunking in soup); chocolate zucchini bread (basically cake, so: good).