Light in the Darkness
The fall equinox is officially at 8:09pm, my time. From then until the spring equinox, those in the northern hemisphere will have more darkness than light, although the change will be more dramatic the farther north you go.
All that darkness makes for good northern lights viewing, and there’s a new place to view them: The Canadian Space Agency’s new aurora webcam. Scroll over the upper right corner and click Connect and if it’s after dusk Yellowknife time, you can watch for the northern lights. Or you could just watch one of the featured videos of past northern lights.
Comfort Food in the Pot
I have harvested everything from the garden except for a little lettuce. I decided it was time to dig the rest of the potatoes and carrots and pick the last three heads of cabbage when I woke a few mornings ago to a thermometer that said -6.7C.
- I’m going to use some of those cabbage leaves in this recipe: Crock Pot Cabbage Rolls (Mennonite Girls Can Cook). Cabbage rolls are a favorite in this house and I can’t wait to try making them in my favorite fall kitchen appliance—the crock pot.
- After that, I’m trying Kim’s lentil soup (The Upward Call). I’m thinking I could make that in the crock pot, too. That it’d use up a little more of the three heads of cabbage crowding the vegie drawers in my fridge is a big bonus.
- I’ve mentioned last week that I’ve been making and canning applesauce. The orchard run MacIntosh were in the supermarket this week, so I’ve made more sauce from the Macs. Don’t know how to make applesauce? I do it like this, except that I usually don’t use cinnamon.
Poem for the Season
I suppose it’s really more about spring, but this seems appropriate for fall, too, don’t you think? (While We Sojourn)