09.21.08
Perfect Weather, Perfectly Awful Timing
This weekend has brought one of those rarities in upstate New York — absolutely gorgeous weather. Clear skies, slight breeze, cool (but not too cool) temperatures. After a very wet summer and a couple weeks of heat and humidity, the notion of a brisk walk to observe the changing leaves sounds divine. A walk followed by cider and homemade apple butter spread on fresh, warm bread. At most, we’ll get just a few weeks of this before the leaves drop and winter starts teasing its way into the Adirondacks, when the apple cider gives way to hot chocolate in front of the fire.
Thus the awful timing. I’m under deadline, working on a tech book, with chapters due every week. No time to enjoy the leaves, no time for apple picking, and certainly no time for making apple butter or bread.
I wish autumn would wait for me…
Sandy S said,
November 6, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Story. Of. My. Life. Glad to know I’m not the only one out there enjoying fall from the window above my computer screen. (Happily for me, my work does involve some cooking, so I get to make stuff like apple butter, but for every hour I spend at the stove, there are three to log on the keyboard.) The joys of working at home – there are many, and many trade-offs, too.