Before I realized that I never published my morning post, we were off like a herd of turtles to help my grandmother rake the sea of leaves in her yard.

And rake we did. Lots and lots of raking. Did I mention we raked today?

And some jumping too.

Now you see her.

Now you don’t.

After a couple hours of yardio, we broke for lunch. Homemade bread and homemade squash soup. If that doesn’t just shriek AUTUMN in your ear like a banshee on a hayride I don’t know what does.

Don’t you love that my nearly 79 year old grandmother is wearing her baseball hat backwards while raking leaves in her yard? I aspire to be 80 and active!

Lucky for Great Granny, the Foodie Leaf Raker will happily accept the last of the fall harvest as payment for services rendered. OK, settle down – I would never charge my grandmother (much) for helping out but I will absolutely throw the rake across the yard to leap into the leaf filled garden and dig up the last of her beets and cut swiss chard to cradle in my arms and coo at like a newborn baby. Doesn’t everybody?

Yes, I also take homemade Grape Jelly. You can make it out to Mama’s Weeds.

Having missed my daily dose of Vitamin G(reen) at lunch and with a husband attending a dinner meeting – three cheers for a giant salad for dinner! Who’s with me?

If you could see my ass right now you would see that it’s dragging about 1 inch off the floor. I would take a pic of it but I’m just too tired. That’s the only thing that’s saving you from a picture of a bad moon on the rise tonight.

Fingers crossed I manage to click Publish!

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My hesitance to work out yesterday was my cue that it’s time for a rest day – so today’s the day. We’ve got another beautiful day in store for us and we’ll be outside and active for sure so it’s the perfect day to take a break.

Instead of getting my sneakers on, I turned the oven on.

I. Must. Have. More. Squash. And. Apple. Curried. Soup.

Seriously. This is soup was so good – I had to make more. Today I used an acorn squash instead of a buttercup, and roasted a sweet potato again to go along with it. The girls and I are off to visit Great Granny today and I want to bring some of this soup to share for lunch.

What’s better than running 4 miles first thing in the morning? Making a big old mess in your kitchen.

Whooo boy might as well get the blender out while I’m at it! Go big or go home when it comes to messes, that’s my motto. I got that one from the girls.

Zak’s mind reading Aunt Pat commented yesterday about making a coconut mango smoothie and little did she know that’s exactly what I had planned for this morning!

My young coconut meat (hubba hubba) from Saturday and the other half of my mango from yesterday. 2 Tbsp of ground flax seed and 1 cup of unsweetened vanilla hemp milk.

355 calories for all this.

Plus the un-pictured remainder that wouldn’t fit in the glass and I drank straight from the blender before taking the picture you see above. I’m so classy.

And now to grandmother’s house we go! (ACK I never hit publish this morning on this one!)

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