I feel like this has been the strangest transition into autumn ever. I was ready for it to start getting cooler about a month ago, but it didn’t. Instead, we had an abnormally warm few weeks in September, including a streak of 80F+ days, which is quite out of the ordinary for this part of the world. And now we’ve just jumped right to highs in the 50s. They were warning of possible frost last night, which seems way too early. But maybe it’s just because of all that warm weather before.
It’s funny: I think I was wishing for autumnal weather so much because it was still very hot and summery. As soon as we got a blast of chillier air, I suddenly started panicking about winter. Well, not panicking — just feeling sad to see summer go (and not looking forward to the cold months ahead).
I picked my squashes yesterday evening, just in case frost hit (it didn’t). They were mostly ripe, anyway, but I hope the two big pumpkins will orange up just a little bit more indoors. I’ve also got three butternut squashes. Not bad! I’ll puree and freeze most of it (both the pumpkin and the butternuts) to use in pie and bread in the coming months. I’m going to wait until Halloween, though, so I can do some carving first!
For some reason I can see you looking at the pumpkins and telling them to “orange up” or else they’re outta the house and on the streets.