ORANGE SEASON!

Our friend and fellow dancer Len Dombras has a great Nikon digital camera and took these photos of us at the Orange & Black themed Halloween Dance at the Senior Dance Club. Of course many folks had costumes, but this worked for us!

As you can see, we were decked out in all the orange we own! So now we can put away our orange tops until next year!

UP TO NO GOOD WITHOUT A PADDLE

No photo for this, just to let you know that in the 4-week "rowing contest" at Baxter, I managed 67,600 or so meters of rowing! The champs were rowing 400,000 meters plus, but to me those 67,000 seemed liked allot! So to celebrate, I took off this week to do yard work...no photos of that either, but here's some of the results.

I came out of the pucker bushes in our front yard with some residue of the oat grass stuck in my visor. Mr A thought it was pretty funny.

A raised bed covered with shade cloth and lattice for the winter "rest".

My indoor garden work area...love having a dry place to pot up. Skylight is very nice since there is no electricity in the building. But I'm always trying to turn out the light when I leave!

Part of my menagerie of garden characters...those wabbits just keep multiplying. My garden fairie Sonia keeps watch over them all.

DANCE FEVER

Here we are at the 4-Mayor's party on a very slippery dance floor.

Lots of folks got out on the floor and attempted dance. The band was good but too loud, as per usual. We didn't take our db meter, but it was at least 100+ db. Oye! My ears are still ringing today.

DANCE SHILLS

Not only is it "high season" for dance...it's high season for fund raising events, apparently. Since we've been back in the valley, we are getting offers of freebie tickets to events that have a dance component.
The Mayors United event is our style...wine, beer and munchies, but NO boring, too-filling banquet and not too many speeches...well, since 5-mayors are involved, SOME speechifiying will be in order. But we're there to "salt" the dance floor. We get up and start dancing right away when the band starts and others will join in. Since the event planners are going to the trouble to rent a dance floor and hire a band, they want folks up and dancing, so they'll remember WHAT FUN it was and come again next year. Works for us! Maybe we'll even get someone to snap a photo of us dancing...stay tuned!

LAYING LOW TODAY

Our black & white, carbon-based unit (as they used to say on Star Trek) is taking it easy today after a too-close encounter/territorial dispute with the new cat on the block. (We think). Got a good claw hit above her right eye. Like some of us here, she's not as fast as she used to be. Luckily we have good antibiotic ointment, but it bears watching for infection, which kitties are prone to. A nice cat weekend indoors will suit us, even if it doesn't make her happy!

TOMATOED

I happened to look in between my tomato cages yesterday and I found this one stem with 6, count'em, 6 ripening tomatoes. These are the Brandy Boy hybrid (a cross between the heirloom Brandywine and Burpee Big Boy tomatoes. So they are as yummy as Brandywine and far more prolific like the Big Boy. You get the best of both! So it's tomato glut season here in the Rogue Valley...not quite frost time but getting close, so we are picking most all the red ones we find. Still lots of green and pinkish ones remaining. We keep the tarps close at hand for threatened nighttime frosts. So far, so good!

PEPPERY, PEPPERY!

We finally got some ripe pimento peppers. There are still many green ones left on the plants. We hope they'll ripen before the first frost.

I like to grill them to get the skins off. Makes the eyes water, but the skins come off so easily after you "sweat" them in a plastic bag. Then I pack them in EVOO, vacuum seal and freeze 'em. Bon apetit!