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October 2018

Family Trip to Kruger’s Farm

October 15, 2018

This was our first family trip to the pumpkin patch this year. We go to the same one on Sauvies Island every year, Kruger’s Farm. Luna and I had gone once before this a couple weeks ago during the week and we were literally the ones at the farm. But this time it Continue Reading…

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

October 12, 2018


There is nothing more delicious than a chocolate chip cookie, but add a little pumpkin and it just takes it over the top! A lot of recipes for Chocolate chip pumpkin cookies often create a cookie that is too heavy on the pumpkin side for me. I want a nice balance of flavors Continue Reading…

Creamy Roasted Tomato Sauce

October 5, 2018


With the cold weather starting to set in it’s time to harvest the last of the many, many tomatoes from the garden, or in this case our neighbors garden. Our neighbor is this very sweet elderly man who lives alone and told us to treat his tomato plants as our own and come pick them Continue Reading…

Vaux Swifts

October 1, 2018


Every year the Vaux Swifts migrate south to Central America. And every year on their way down, thousands of these birds gather and use the chimney at a local elementary school as an evening roost. There are literally thousands of these birds. They start gathering Continue Reading…