A closing of the seasons
The weather has turned cool here -- it has been raining off and on today, the light slow sweet rain that heralds the coming of Fall and Winter. The first fire of the season is burning in my studio (the DaveCave) -- the last two evenings were a bit chilly so today I stocked the woodbin and laid a small cosy fire.
Spent today at an auction of a local Welder who passed away suddenly. Got a few good tools and was somewhat surprised at the number of people present for such a small one-man operation. Tim was well liked by the community and it seems that lots of people wanted to get a souvenir and to help out his widow as the bidding wars on some items wound out to several times the list price for new tools.
Still, everyone had a good time, there were lots of good bargains too (I got a 1/2" Hole Hawg drill and a nice machinists square).
Just finished a dinner of stir fried homegrown broccoli, bush beans and carrots tossed with some rotelli pasta, coarse-ground black pepper, a good Olive Oil and some freshly roasted pine nuts.
Desert was locally grown sweet corn from a farmer we know from about ten miles away.
Farming might not pay well (still waiting to get the Hard Cider business up and running) but we live a relaxed lifestyle and eat very very well...
Posted by DaveH at September 14, 2006 8:48 PM