It's not officially Fall but it's beginning to feel that way up here in the Adirondacks. Acorns and beech nuts are falling and leaves are starting to change colors all ready.

We had a fire in my cool fire pit tonight. David and I cooked hot dogs on it with Cris and Loyal and the girls. We had some of the last of the season's corn on the cob too. It was great. Very yummy as were the beautiful tomatoes my friend Mary Jane gave me - she gave me 25 pounds of the biggest, juiciest and best tasting tomatoes I had eaten all summer. Today I froze some of them so I can use them to make soup in the winter. My friend Diane told me to cut out the cores, blanche them in boiling water for a bit - then dip them into into ice water, the peel comes off easily. I put them in ziplock freezer bags. We'll see how they taste in soup this winter.