Today was a wonderful Friday! The chaos of my work day was nicely calm today, projects are sitting on other people’s desks or in their inboxes….not on or in mine. I took Odie the Wonder Dog for a walk about 10:30 am and it was BRISK enough to wear little cotton gloves— in order to avoid the frozen fingertip syndrome. The city water department was out blasting the water hydrants, I assume in preparation for a hard freeze that is inevitable in the next few weeks. And, I also caught up with all the ‘things’ that needed mailing, filing, dropping off or ‘Fedexing’ and still managed to have time to get my nails done (yes, acrylic-fire engine red CLAWS that keep me from unconsciously chewing and picking my real ones to bloody stumps—and yes, I’ve tried everything) and make a pan of Caramal Apple Crisp! YUMMY.

I hope you all are having the same kind of day!

Journal Prompt: What is your favorite Fall dessert?

(I found the image below on the Cooks Illustrated site – http://www.cooksillustrated.com/ibb/posts.aspx?postID=259685)

And, this is the recipe I use, but I use butter instead of shortening and half of the sugar I substitute with dark brown sugar.