White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits!
It’s September 1st, and the month has begun on the good foot of chilly and rainy, making it the perfect time to dig the lamb chunks leftover from making gyro meat earlier in the year from the chest freezer, brush the dust off the pumpkin-shaped stew pot, and officially launch Stew Season. I even bought a small loaf of bread baked with garlic cloves for the occasion.
This is genuinely my favorite time of year, not just because of Halloween, but all of the harvest-time things, from the spooky to the cozy. I love the ghosts and ghouls and things that go bump in the night, and I equally love the endless soups and stews, the apples and pumpkins and the brights oranges and reds of the fallling leaves and apples and….
I wish I could live in the few, fleeting weeks of the year all year round. This is the time of year that the world makes sense to me.
What is your favorite thing about this time of year?
