I honestly don’t have anything against the orange variety (stay tuned for some nice shots of a local pumpkin cart, actually), but this time of year I’m a sucker for the different kinds of pumpkins (er, Cucurbit?) available. We got these beauties from Taft Farms, local favorite for all things seasonal, yummy and did I mention local?
Happy likes them, too.
Have I mentioned that my plants won’t quit? Well, some of them have taken the shortening daylight and cold nights as a cue, but others are still flowering away. I think my two hanging Fuchsia benefitted from a healthy does of whey (aka cheese water, leftover from our cheesemaking day) that John gave them (warning: not (NOT) for house plants! smelly, milky, possibly moldy and bug-attracting, at least for a few days. UGH.) — they will not stop flowering! I did cover them one cold night, but they made it through another without such attention and are still happy as ever. Crazy. The veggie garden is done, herbs were dried and are now in the freezer, and everything else defintely needs some attention.
But not today.
Today I am doing homework, being crafty, and tonight I’m off to a workshop in North Adams (at MCLA, where my darling hubby goes to school) through Berkshire Creative and The Berkshire Cultural Resource Center, the Tricks of the Trade professional development seminar series for artists, artisans and creatives held throughout Berkshire County. Tonight is number 1, and it features Etsy Etsy Etsy! Tomorrow’s seminar is on pricing your work, which I am very excited about, that one is at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in Pittsfield. They are all free, you just have to call to sign up, so sign up and we’ll see you there!
