Baking with pumpkin in May

Okay - so it's a strange time of year for a pumpkin desert. But I found a recipe for a pumpkin apple streusel coffee cake and it's in the oven now - and it smells FABULOUS!!!

I LOVE fall - with it's smells and darkness and cool mornings and evenings. The colors. The hunkering down inside with books and coffee and the kids back in school...

So why write about fall in May? Because to be completely honest - I'm not a huge summer fan. Sure - it's great to be outside - to touch bases with all the neighbors and take long walks in the evening....but...the days are sometimes ENDLESSLY long. The kids get bored of swimming. We don't have AC and I hate sleeping in a hot house. I feel guilty about my unmanicured backyard. It's just a LONG season and I lose interest.

But here we go anyway. Maybe I need some sort of challenge to push me through the summer - something to look forward to every day - some way of finding something interesting in each day... maybe a scrapbooking challenge...

I'll think on that...

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