Harvest time is definitely here! There’s no mistaking that around St. Anne’s the past few weeks!

We’ve had a lot of cucumbers and a fair number of tomatoes donated, as well as some beets and other fresh produce.

We even had a large box of small pears brought in as well as a plastic grocery bag full of apples. I’m sure there’s more to come!

I don’t have to deal with the beets or cucumbers, but the other items frequently find their way to me. I am grateful for the helpers who come to my rescue and ease my burden, at times even taking over a project for me.

One project, however, that I did myself (although thankfully the kitchen staff had washed them for me), was processing tomatoes. Even there, I was dependent upon a trick I learned from my mom; I simply cut out the stem and any bad spots and quartered the tomatoes before putting them in the blender and “zapping” them. I did this yesterday afternoon; now, we have about four gallons of juicy tomato purée. (I am looking forward to tasting tomorrow’s tomato soup.)

This season of the year is also a time to start thinking about our fall sale and luncheon. This year, we’re starting a bit early because we’re doing some new things. Our activity director and I are pretty excited for our “Autumn Extravaganza,” featuring a silent auction and a spaghetti dinner (along with the traditional craft and bake sale).

We’ve even started working on the decorations to make the activity room look festively Italian for the event.

As I think about the variety of seasons, about there being “a time for this” and “a time for that,” The famous passage from Ecclesiastes 3 and the subsequent Byrds’s song come to mind.

It is so nice that we have a variety of seasons. They say, variety is the spice of life. Can you imagine having to cut apples and tomatoes twelve months out of the year?

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