Traveling

Sorry for the lack of posts recently - it feels like I'm hardly here anymore! Jon and I spent the first week of September up in Glacier Park, Montana. I spent the first week of October in Virginia visiting Grandma. Then I was back in Denver for about a week, and then off to Texas for a 4-day weekend for my high school reunion. I'm back in Denver now, but Jon and I leave Saturday for Portland. I have to go for a week of continuing education for work, and Jon was sweet enough to go with me! We'll have the weekend to travel and do touristy stuff, then Jon will be on his own while I attend classes/labs during the week.
All this to say that it will probably be another couple of weeks until I get back into a routine and get back to blogging - gotta catch up on laundry and cleaning first! =)

Spicy!

I tried a new recipe for dinner tonight - Roasted Poblano Pepper and Green Tomato Chili. It seemed like a good idea, since we bought a bag of roasted poblano peppers from the farmers market yesterday (last of the season - so sad!), and we have a bag of green tomatoes from our plants. It was yummy - but super-spicy! Chicken, onion, garlic, chicken broth, green tomatoes, roasted peppers, corn, and some spices.

We had our first hard freezes last week and this week - hence the big bag of green tomatoes. Jon and I were out in the dark last week picking all the eggplants (4-5), tomatoes (about 25-30), and the one zucchini from our garden - good thing we did since the plants are all dead now! We rescued some of the smaller potted plants - hydrangea, petunias, dahlia, and our herb garden. So now they're living in the garage at night and spending their days outside (when we remember). The growing season sure seems short up here!