Autumn, it's here.

I was going to write on politics tonight, but I'm too tired to deal with the topic right now. Nothing much is new over my way. The weather is getting cooler, as most of you are surely already aware. This makes the more difficult, more taxing jobs on the farm easier to handle. It has the downside, however, of making the Tuesday and Friday morning harvests, which start promptly at 7AM, nearly unbearable. When I came into work the other day the temperature was about 38 degrees Fahrenheit and there was patchy frost on the ground. When you have to work with wet plants (basil and other herbs in this case) for more than an hour straight, you experience all kinds of pain in your extremities - particularly in your digits. More on that another time.

On the bright side, the fireworks of fall have begun. Hooray for colorful leaves! Hooray for rustling corn stalks! Hooray for crunchy dried plant matter!