Autumn - Stormy Weather

                                Blustery day before the storm...

The Buttes have had many names over the years. The Maidu Indians called them “Histum Yani”  which translates as, “Middle Mountains of the Valley” or “Spirit Mountain,” depending on the source. According to Maidu legend, after death, the spirits of their people rest in the Buttes before the journey to the afterlife.

                                            Sutter Buttes Massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutter_Buttes_massacre

Histum Yani is looking stormy already. Much strange and wond'rous cloud and atmospheric activity abound around these buttes. Always a new view daily.

  Grapevines turning...                 

Aidan's Cat: Sara Yellow Tree aka: Little Yellow Puddles

         Fam Foto...! Left to Right: Chewbaca the Wookie (sitting), Princess Lea Episode VIII, Princess Lea Episode IV, and Kylo Ren

OF NOTE BELOW:

PRIZE! -- to whomever can identify this oddity that washed up on the kitchen chair...coonskin cap left in the rain?

                                     

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                                      Jellyfish Clouds                                  

                  Longhorn Cattle with calves. Nice racks, indeed!                                                 

                  October Country - Twight Time with frog chorus                                      

                                     Tomorrow night is All Hallows Eve!

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                                              Specters on the road...

                                              

                                         -- waiting for Dorothy & Toto....

...actually found a yummy Puffball Mushroom on the trail! A grand gift of Mother Nature indeed! Shared w/my sister; a mouthful of magic in every bite.              
                   

Halloween Table w/Mini-Punkin Pie, cards by Druid Clare, Fangless Fosdick the Formerly Fearsome, and Magical Mary Ann McDonald. Witch you all could be here with us!

                                         

                                                      ++++  Spooky Pie  ++++

Watched 1st Harry Potter last night -- tonight: pizza party w/sourdough crust pizza (w/mushrooms of course), watching Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Legend of Sleepy Hollow) starring Bing Crosby, Basil Rathbone and the fabulous Thurl Ravenscroft! -- as Headless Horseman.

(Also the basso profundo for You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch,  Pink Elephants on Parade,  Monstro the Whale (Pinocchio) and many more!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Ravenscroft

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BreadBlog

One in a series of sourdoughs...

This is a multigrain sourdough made up of whole wheat, unbleached white, home-ground rye, buckwheat and rice flour, with walnuts added.

As you can tell, it is a rather dense bread and so yeast was added. Still, a nice texture and consistency and it did rise somewhat above the loaf pan. Can't hope for a high rise with such heavy grains. A good hearty bread.

In other news: we are hosting a Holstein, and two Jersey cows.

Noel and Christina's cows are chewing down the dry grasses in the fields which aids in reducing fire danger. 

Below: early morning visitors -- deer prints                                     

                 
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November - Puffballs, persimmons and multigrain sourdough

                                          

                A nice grouping. Puffballs yummy sauteed w/a bit of onion. Again, bread too hearty to rise much but such a flavor: oats, rice, rye, whole wheat & white sourdough.

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November's end: Nice fattish loaf of sourdough multigrain with rice, rye, whole wheat and white.

                                                                              

                     Helen dried the persimmons and found the best  local sweet and juicy mandarines.Lemon tree is full of fat ripe lemons. Speaking of food-Thanksgiving approaches...