This is my favorite time of year. Days are cool enough for roast chicken dinners. I harvested the last of the garden vegetables and the farmers market completes the rest. I do not mind having the oven on for over two hours to let the big bird brown as the afternoon cools. The fall rains have started and after our two-month drought, this is like champagne from the sky.
While I can no longer run outside barefoot across the wet grass to harvest the rosemary and sage for the chicken, I also do not have to avoid the hot sidewalk on the quick return.
I can no longer watch the moon rise in my Chinese pajamas (pink "silk" which my Princess granddaughter loves) because the evenings are most chilling now on the back deck, but I can still BBQ on the deck and enjoy the earlier sunsets through the flame red and yellow trees.
Perhaps I will also finally have time to search the back seat of my car and find the injured grasshopper which my grandson saved, wrapped carefully in a napkin, and then somehow lost on our trip back from the ice cream booth this past summer.
Such wonderful photos!! Love those pj's. And that roasted chicken dinner looked so delicious! I will have to make this dinner for my sweetie and soon. I am still drooling! Ha!
ReplyDeleteA rescued grasshopper...how sweet!!
Hugs
SueAnn
First, so happy you are back home. I have missed your sharing.
ReplyDeleteThe chicken looks wonderful and you gave me an idea. For one - I will cook 1/2 a chicken:) Love those pj's/
I wonder how many chickens will be roasted this weekend after that delicious picture. It's chilly in the house now at the beginning and the end of the day and the oven heat and the chicken smell are too much to pass up. ;-)
ReplyDeletefall is just beginning to hint that summer is over here. Next week is supposed to be really nice only getting into the high 80s (as opposed to the mid 90s we've been having). It will be months yet before it is too cold for me to go barefoot.
ReplyDeleteI like the chicken, I like the pj's, and I wonder how you got those wet feet prints on the concrete to be so perfect.
ReplyDeleteI always love to see what the word verification is....
today it is rangie (chicken)
Already, I have reverted to cooler weather menus. Marinating and grilling are giving way to roasting and baking! Gone are melon and ice cream desserts. Now I'm baking apple crisp!
ReplyDeleteIt must be a lot cooler where you are than it is here. We've had mid to high 90's for the last week.
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Mmmmmm...that chicken looks absolutely delicious!!!!
ReplyDeleteStill hot here in the South....
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as they all said, the chicken looks so yummy :)
ReplyDeleteLove the sandals and the thought of the semi-outdoor life on the deck. Autumn is here well and truly now. One day bright and sunny and three days gloomy and misty. Still..... it has its own beauty. Every Blessing
ReplyDeleteNow I know what I want: chicken and pink silk pajamas.
ReplyDeleteHaha! on the grasshopper. I love your Pj's too and the roast chicken looks good! I just picked a late crop of Italian flat beans. I'm thrilled. Still eating swiss chard and lettuce. I love this time of year too even though I resist the end of summer.
ReplyDeleteI love the fall, too. Time for flannel pjs!
ReplyDeleteDare I hope that the grasshopper miraculously healed and hopped away?
I am missing my silk pajama bottoms and flip flops as well. Sigh, here comes Fall, EEK.
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