Here's Harry!

 Anni decided she was going as Harry Potter for Halloween this year. Check out the school jumper, tie, and scar!

 She really liked the talking wand!

And that's a pouch of Berttie Bott's Every Flavor Jelly Beans hanging from her belt. This wizardess is all set to conjure up some mischief!

Halloween or Samhain is our favorite yearly festival. We've done lots of dressing up, decoration, and cooking up of treats, and a few tricks as well. Ari's been a pirate and Medusa. I've been the Morrigan, a dark fairy, and a fine young cannibal. We've visitied friends for a Dracula movie night complete with our annual veggie stew baked in a pumpkin, and danced our feet off at our favorite celtic pub. We also celebrated some of the fun Latin traditions for the Day of the dead. Anni and I dressed up as calaveras, and we had delicious Mexican food. Time to hit the gym!

 The last of this year's tomato harvest. Amazing! We were still harvesting tomatoes in November!

 Rainy day farmer, Julie Ann, after a soaking wet trip out to the veggies. Anyone got a towel?

 The daily take; lots of carrots, tomatillos, herbs, and a few greens.

The cleaned up treasures.

We been making lots of preserves with our harvest bounty. Anni and I made four quarts of apple butter last week with the remains of her apple picking adventures. I've been making up vats of spaghetti sauce to use up our enormous tomato crop, and tomorrow, I'm embarking on a tomatillo salsa extravaganza! Now, what to do with several hundred carrots, hmm???