Autumn Awakening

I am settling in the  slower Autumn rhythms. The shorter cooler days are perfect for baking, spinning fiber into yarn, and spending the evenings snuggled into a good book. I still have 2/3 of the 55 gal drum of sheep wool to wash, card, and spin. I’ve started “Herman the great sourdough starter,” he lives on the kitchen counter through the fall, winter, and spring. I rarely bake in the summer, the oven makes the kitchen too hot. I am glad I wasn’t a woman in the days of old;  cooking on a wood burning stove year round. I do miss cooking on the Southern Comfort wood cook stove in the winters of my girlhood.