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Greetings!
My garden looked a little like an Occupy Wall Street encampment last night with all the frost protecting tarps. I can't complain though, it's probably the last time I'll have to cover things before my official "let everything fend for itself" date of October 1st.
 I was almost tempted to go out late last night and pull the tarps off of the tomatoes so we'd lose the rest, but the neighbors lights were on and they already think I spend far too much time outside in my pajamas. And no, please don't send me your tomato recipes. We've had ten different varieties of tomato sauce, tomato pie, tomato soup, tomato bruschetta, roasted tomatoes, dried tomatoes, smoked tomatoes - I just can't face the thought of reading anything more about how to re-imagine tomatoes into something I might actually want at this point.
Why don't you do something really useful like come up with a recipe for making all those jumping, Asian carp in the Illinois river taste like Kentucky Fried Chicken or Big Macs. Then we'd have no trouble getting rid of them. Just throw the rest of those damn tomatoes into the compost pile.
Here's wishing you a tomato free fall (pun intended),
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 Three great garden spheres - handmade by us using elements from our collection of antique architectural fragments, a cool pair of vintage driftwood coffee table bases,  a tall cast iron fence fragment with lots of interesting detail, a vintage cast stone swan planter in old paint, a cute little cast stone deer, a cool old Sheraton style door knocker, a really attractive forged iron window guard panel and a Charmingly distressed vintage 1940's-1950's French composition stone poodle |
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Caramel Glazed Apple Chunk Cake
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Disappointed that so few local orchards have any decent eating apples this year? This caramel glazed charmer is quick, easy and can help you use up those unremarkable travelling apples you got from the grocery store. Nancy taught our our niece, Olivia, to make this fabulously easy cake on Saturday and Addy and I have been carefully tasting it to make sure it's good for breakfast, lunch and dinner ever since.
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Big Old Houses
A friend recently told us about this amazing weekly column in the New York Social Diary dedicated to the great old homes of the New York City area and the Hudson River Valley. It's written by a quirky real estate agent in the city, named John Foreman, who's made it his recent life's work to chronicle these amazing places before (and sometimes after) they go. He has is own blog, but I think it's funnier to get to it through New York's self proclaimed "Link to Society".
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