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     I hope you've got your brackets ready! It's Fat Bear Week !    

  A said "When you get out that pan I know there's going to be cake!" and he was right. We made the Windfall Apple Cake from the Brambly Hedge recipes. The website is in the UK, so we had some fun converting Celsius to Farenheit and grams to ounces. Can't wait to try a piece after dinner. And speaking of dinner, tonight's meal will be prepared by B. We're studying the Japan with Lokua and he's making Omurice which is basically fried rice cooked inside an omlette. The Lokua units come with recipes but we often branch out and try new things on our own.

Yesterday was the autumn equinox, marking the beginning of fall in the northern hemisphere. I went to update our nature table only to discover that it was still displaying its winter decorations! These past six months have been so tumultuous that I guess I just forgot about marking the changing of the seasons. Maybe that's why it feels like time has passed so quickly lately? At any rate, the crisp weather lately has me noticing nature more and anticipating the new beautiful colors the trees will soon be wearing (although I do love the green, too). So I pulled out a couple of our favorite autumn stories and have started planning some crafts and treats to go along with the new season. The two little books I have on display are fall favorites here. All of the Elsa Beskow books are so sweet, but Woody, Hazel, and Little Pip is perfect for fall. Two acorn children, Woody and Little Pip get carried away by the wind and little Hazel hitches a ride in Mr. Squirrel's tail when he goes ...