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!