Maybe my blog should be called the beauty of doing something....

Ah fall, such a great time for baking delicious foods! In the past week or so I've made a blackberry and concord grape rustic tart (picked the berries, and got local grapes from a great produce stand by my Mom's house), a crock pot imitation chile relleno, an eggplant ricotta bake, an apple cake (with apples from our tree) and last night I made red cabbage to go with our beer-simmered bratwurst & onions. Yum! I really like food. We always have a list of things to make on the fridge.

I feel like I've gotten a lot of knitting done lately too, mostly because I'm doing small, fast projects, like these hats you see sprinkled throughout.
We'll see how I feel in Nov when I'm trying to knit a whole cardigan in 30 days. Or if my Mom decides she wants an afghan for Christmas- I already need to pick back up on the baby blanket for Jessie. But I've gotten 2 of my gifts made already, pretty good since it's only October! Right now I'm working on a few Halloween spiders and a Christmas snowman, an interesting combination.

Did I mention I can now do front handsprings in gymnastics (onto a big poufy mat, but still- I could never really do them before). I wish I could go tonight, but I've been looking forward to this book discussion for months now, so I HAVE to go to book club! I really enjoyed this book (Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love), even though it's another one of those travel novels that makes you want to scream "Why won't someone pay ME to go eat in Italy?!" Admittedly she went through a horrible soul-crushing period leading up to her year abroad (Italy, India, Indonesia to learn pleasure, devotion, and balance, respectively), but honestly, someone should pay me to go to amazing places! Sometimes reading travel articles in Sunset magazine make me so mad, they are CRAP, yet they get funded & published. (One that particularly steamed me was about a trip to the Olympic Forest, and all it said of "substance" was that 2 year old boys like slugs, and 4 yer old girls like swimming pools better than cold lakes, what the hell?) But then again, I haven't written anything in quite a while (besides here, which itself is very infrequently, I admit). Maybe some year I'll have to do NaNoWriMo, but not simultaneously with NaSweKniMo!