October at Urban Home Blog
Here are our plans for the spooky month of October at Urban
Home Blog.
- Go through baking pantry to be sure pantry goods and bakeware are stocked and ready for fall baking.
- Make hot spiced cider on first cool night of autumn.
- Remove Halloween boxes from holiday closet to decorate forHalloween.
- On Halloween decorating weekend, make baked rigaboni and a pumpkin cake.
- Make applesauce, pumpkin butter, and barbeque sauce in anticipation of holiday gift-giving.
- Keep candy bowl filled. This year's favorites: See's orange krispies and coffee-nut M&Ms.
- Spend cool Sunday evening at local pub, The Pikey. Laddie Dill and vinegar chicken for John, Blood and Sand and English pub burger for me.
- Once pattern-making kit arrives, try hand at making a shirt for John.
- Have furnace serviced. Have air conditioners serviced and sealed for the season.
- Meet with financial adviser for annual review.
- Send notes/emails to wine country friends and colleagues in celebration of grape harvest. Assess household wine inventory and reserve futures of promising releases.
- Spend week in Solvang for harvest wine tastings and Scarecrow Festival.
- Continue to practice snail medicine by learning about and providing for snail family that has taken up residence under rock wall.
- Send donations to bat, bee, and palm conservancies.
- Set out Dumb Supper on the solemn evening of Samhain. Burn candles and incense. Remember and honor those who have passed. Welcome friendly spirits that wish to partake of the offering in remembrance of their time on this side of the veil.
Reading List: Ghost Worlds, Melba Goodwyn; Witchcraft and
Sorcery, Max Marwick, ed.; The Bowl of Night, Rosemary Edghill
Listening List: A Life Less Lived, various artists; PG-13
Sharon Needles; Wish, The Cure
October, 2013:
Spice Blends, Pumpkin
Groceries
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