On my long walk home from 25th St. to 59th St. I ran into my husband looking for the infamous Soup Kitchen that was made famous on Seinfield. It is no longer in use and has been borded up. 
We had dinner at The Palm. Here is a picture of some of the cartoons that adorn the walls. 
We ordered steak and lobster to share. We couldn't eat it all.
Here is our waitress cracking the shells for us. I must say is was fabulous. 
Ah, Porter's birthday. Can you believe my baby is 20! We had fun going to Outback for dinner and sharing great and hilarious stories from his childhood, now a thing of the past.
I had so many fun things I wanted to make for Halloween this year, but I think I was a little over zealous. This is the ONE I did get done. A embroidered pillow to put on my settee in the entry way. It was a fun project to see come to fruition. I think I'll start in January working on the other patterns in time for next Halloween.
Trying to get a jump on Christmas I made this little wall hanging. I love the little buttons that represent the 12 days.
I called Haas farms in Wapato and they will be suppling Welch's next week, so if I want grapes now is the time to get them. I borrowed Kim & Matt's tahoe and away I went. I left at 6:15 in the morning. Going through the canyon was so beautiful, I decided to take a picture while driving. 
This is the gorgous sunrise at 75 miles an hour. What?
One more shot - it really doesn't do justice, but I tried. I arrived at the farm about 8:30, gathered up the goods and headed home, after I stopped and picked up pumpkins. I was home by 12:00 and juicing by 12:30.
Aren't these beautiful. They taste as good as they look!
And so I begins...The house smells just like Grandma's. Memories, like the corner of my mind (join in any time)
I know, why don't I make Halloween cookies at the same time? So how many quarts of grapes can you get out of 15 - 20lb boxes of grapes? 126 quarts and then some. Whew!
Today I made plum sauce out of the plums I cooked down on day 1. I made 1 batch using a Plum Sauce recipe and the 2nd batch using a Tangy Plum Sauce recipe. Then after having my own little taste test I decided to make the 3rd batch using the tangy recipe, only adding a little more plums to it. It made it a little more tart but still very tasty. We had some of it on our chicken tonight. Fantastic!
I made the salsa today using up most of the tomatoes, peppers and onions. Isn't this colorful?
Here it is all mixed together. After chopping everything by hand it has to cook for 2 hours. It's sure worth it, blister and all. I love this recipe. It's sweet with a little kick, but not too spicy. It's just right.
The steamer/juicer is hard at work again today. I am juicing the rest of the plums to drink and make plum jelly later this winter. I love plum jelly.
Porter's favorite dessert is peach cobbler. He always asks for it for his birthday. The problem is Porter's birthday is the first of October when the "ripe off the tree" peaches are gone. I decided the left over peaches from yesterday would make the best cobbler. "If you make it, he will come" applied to this situation. Hence, Porter's birthday was celebrated today!
16 quarts of plum juice. 
I also made a frozen peach pie with almond flavoring. My 2 favorite combinations! Wouldn't that make a great icecream flavor. Peach Almond Ding! hee hee
I always wanted to have the job of making up names of icecream and finger nail polish. As you can see, I'd better keep my day job.
Tonight I had the Activity Day girls over to make invitations and cookies to give to their dad's for the Daddy/Daughter night. Pictured clockwise from top: Kayle, Meg, Emily, Kiera, and Katie.
Pictured clockwise from bottom right: Vanessa, Kelyn, Kate, Ashley, Taylor, Julia, and Cassidy.
