Monday there was the best pedestrian ever walking by my house, playing his silvery tuba as he went.
I've been in a race against the weather, waiting to see how many ripe cherry tomatoes I could get from my four plants before concerns about the first frost got me to pick all the green fruit. Someone posted to FB about the current weather forecasts projecting a possible snow-hurricane storm hitting the east coast next week, so I'm going to have to pay closer attention, though the current outlook for here is for precipitation, but not too cold. (And bring the plants in that I'll overwinter.) At least I used it as inspiration to take the sukkah down.
On a related note, I'm finding myself using my freezer much more actively this year, especially with unprocessed produce (corn, blueberries, rhubarb, hot peppers, etc) and more prepared food (ie, not only soup, but also mushroom duxelles (thanks to a friend unexpectedly gifting me some wonderful mushrooms), roasted summer squash, baked winter squash, soup stock, etc). I'm pushing the capacity of the freezer; it's the first year I've really thought that a chest freezer could become necessary.
I'm still watching Once Upon a Time, but ever since the middle of last season it isn't as shiny for me. Why? Because they've got all these fairy tale characters, and then toss in a figure from Greek myth, which tossed me out of the story entirely. And this season they're compounding the issue with figures from Arthurian and Chinese legends (of course, only ones that have been Disneyfied or otherwise made large enough in public consciousness). Once they've crossed out of traditional fairy tales like that, it is clear how Euro-centric it is, while on the other hand, not including lots of other classic figures. Even if you select for magic situations (rather than an all-fiction Jasper Fforde sort of set-up), what about Prospero (The Tempest), or Baba Yaga (Russian fairy tale), or figures from Hindu or Native American or African cosmologies? Bleh.
Yesterday I walked to Malden. It was great to walk along streets I hadn't been on before, though I should have been more protective of my feet; the one that had the worse blister started hurting partway through. Other than that, though, it was a perfect day for a walk (if a little warm). I got to see: some amazing trees aflame in their autumn glory; a dead butterfly on the sidewalk, that I had to transfer to under a bush because it seemed wrong to leave it stranded on hard pavement; a girl learning how to pogo; wheels of spiderwebs between almost every railing on the Rte. 28 bridge; swans in the river below; college rowers on a canal in Malden; unexpected views of the river. Plus the Malden supermarket I stopped in at to pick up something for snacking on had a sale on kosher turkey salami slices.
Last week's Maine-centric earthquake has me wondering whether the increase in northeast quakes is disturbing, or means that whatever pressure there is is being relieved in small quakes, rather than building up to something bigger.
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