QOTW - What are your favorite ways to Enjoy Fall

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Question of the Week - sorry this is late.

 

What are your favorite ways that you enjoy fall?

Cooking special things, apple picking, drives to see fall colors, entering

homemade things in a local fall fair, pick up nuts, cracking and shelling

them, picking persimmons, decorate, making apple cider, sauce, apple butter.

I love the Holidays and Seasons. Celebrating them make life seem more

joyful and festive. Can't wait to hear your answers!

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I'm finishing putting up my fall decorations today. Oh it makes our home

so happy and puts a smile on all of our faces. When we lived in Georgia, I

would love to go pick apples in the north Ga. mountains, on a nice fall leaf

color day and enjoy Helen, Ga(German village), hike in a park and picnic. I

still do love to go for a drive, hiking and a picnic, but I'm not sure where

the apple orchards are here in Alabama. Maybe next year I can find out. I

love Fuji and Gala apples!

 

I have a friend whose fuji persimmon tree is always productive. She has

been very generous and let me pick some. I love them. My persimmon trees

will one day be that productive I hope!

 

Hickory and pecans are ripe and falling everywhere in this are now. When I

was a kid, we would go to the pecan farms, and they had some clamp thing

they put around the trees and would shake the trees to make them drop the

nuts. Then folks in the area would pick them up for so much per pound.

It was my extra spending money. There was a chesnut tree that a childhood

friend had. Boy was that a prickly situation to deal with, when collecting

them. They have an extra shell that is full of sharp spikes. They tasted

so good roasted in the oven.

 

I love to open the windows, bake Ms. Smith's Mince Meat Pie or Pumpkin Pie

and have some cloves and cinammon sticks simmering in my small potporri

crock pot.

 

Happy Fall,

Judy