With the kids home, I waited my turn for the kitchen, but it was all good.  K gave me the idea to make the challah sweet again, so this time I filled the dough with pumpkin-spiced brown sugar and twisted it instead of braiding.  It came out like a sweet cinnamon roll and was gobbled up in one sitting.  I also tried kabobs with middle eastern-spiced chicken and veggies including eggplant and assorted peppers from the garden, served with basmati rice.  There was something for everyone’s tastes, even Y.

Our neighbor Angela dropped by to give me some of her homemade elderberry syrup, which was excellent.  She and I sat in the sukkah, her first time, and talked for a while, mostly about gardening.  We also had in common a case of exhaustion!  Sitting in a sukkah turns out to be a good remedy, or at least a momentary respite.

It’s supposed to [gasp] rain today (Saturday), a lot, with heavy storms possible.  This severe drought did in fact set records, so this will be a relief.  A cold front may accompany it, but I loved the extended bonus summer while it lasted, and made the most of it.  There won’t be much fall color, due to the drought.

The ferny-looking photo is the asparagus!  What started as a few spindly seedlings a year or so ago has turned massive.  I hope to see spears next year.