stonepicnicking_okapi

I LOVE candy corn! :) I could eat it by the handfuls. Well, I have, but I pay a steep price these days (fun with aging!).

This is my most favorite time of year. Dunkin's pumpkin coffee is >>>>>> than Starbuck's pumpkin spice latte, in my humble opinion. I also make a really, REALLY good pumpkin bread. That's about the extent of my pumpkin-ness.

Other things I love this time of year: mulled cider, grilled cheese sandwiches (which is our standard Bad Weather Meal in the winter, but has become a fall favorite as well), cheddar ale soup with a TON of bacon. Because we're currently without a working oven, we're making more use of our crockpot and I want to make a proper stew soon. With bread. I love bread every day of the year, but there's something about a hunk of buttered bread in the fall.