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By Author Author of Fall By PattyLynn Gossman It’s fall, y’ Paragraph: Cambria 16-20 all!! Whether you’re rushing out for a pumpkin spiced latte at your favorite coffee shop or whipping it up at home, pumpkin spice is the flavor of the season! Not only are there pumpkin spice lattes, we now have pumpkin spice Cheerios, pumpkin spice Pop Secret popcorn, pumpkin spice Wrigley’s Extra gum, and pumpkin spice Greenies dog treats! I've even heard of pumpkin spice toilet paper. Although, I think that one’s a joke! Don’t forget you can spice up your home de cor by adding a quilt or a comfy throw blanket on the couch. Set out a bowl of cinnamon apples or nuts for that warm fall smell, or a cornucopia of little squash and colorful dried corncobs. You can even add some fall flair to your front porch with a few pumpkins and a couple of hay bales.

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Paragraph Cambria: Size 16 Each year I ask my family about their favorite foods for fall and the holidays, and then I make sure we have everyone’s special treat at least once during the fall and winter months. My family’s favorites include zucchini bread, chocolate chip pumpkin bread, hot spiced cider topped with whipped cream, Mom’s famous apple pie, a pot of chili with cornbread, a plethora of cookies, gingerbread with lemon sauce, and homemade chicken pot pie… just to name a few.

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Paragraph: Cambria 16-20 I also ask my family which fall and holiday traditions are their favorites. We ALWAYS go to the pumpkin patch and walk through a corn maze. Our Paragraph Cambria: Size 16 family also goes tree hunting for the perfect tree and then we decorate it together. Each family has its traditions including foods and festive activities that exemplify the season for us. I love to keep our special traditions, but we also expand our activities to include new activities. Who knows, these may become a new favorite to repeat next season.

This year, with the challenging season of Covid-19, we are not sure what “phase” we will be in when the holidays arrive. How will our traditions and activities have to flex? After months of practice, I feel most of us have come to grips with how to get around and maintain relationships safely. And, yet questions remain. Will we “trick or treat” or hold annual harvest parties? How many will gather around our table for a Thanksgiving feast this year? I hope whatever you and your family decide to do it is a fun, memorable activity!

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Here are some FUN fall activities for you to try: • Feel free to mix up the content in Have a Harvest Party. A small potluck here. You may use the fonts: with family and friends. • Attend a local Harvest Festival or Ok- toberfest. Ink Free • -Cambria Visit a local farm. Buy the freshly harvested produce. Don't forget to take a hayride while you are there. • In different sizes. Preserve produce. Fall is the perfect time to pickle cucumbers, roast tomatoes and make spaghetti sauce to can, or freeze berries. • Go to a pumpkin patch. Pick the perfect pumpkin and carve a jack-o’-lantern, or if you prefer to participate in a Punkin

Chunkin contest. • Try apple picking. Enjoy the wide variety of tasty apples. Check out your local farmers for their fresh-pressed cider.

Bake an apple pie or make applesauce with the apples you find. • Crunch through piles of leaves! Rake the leaves up or jump right in and swim around. Collect pretty leaves to wax or press. • Build a bonfire and roast some s’ mores!

It'll be the perfect start to your fall season! • Most local farms offer corn mazes and candy corn. Nothing beats getting lost in a corn maze with a loved one • Trick or treating and haunted houses are two of my kids' favorite October activities.

Stay home and watch football games and the World Series on TV.

Another family favorite of ours is watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV. Give thanks at Thanksgiving. Make a thankful tree or a gratitude jar or start a journal to focus on your attitude of gratitude. Give to others in our community. Rake their leaves, bring them food. Participate in a local food drive. Walk & Knock is the biggest one-day food drive

in Clark County. Think about helping them out in December. Take advantage of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales to get good gifts at

great prices this year. Buy a gift for a child through Angel Tree or other organizations. Dare I mention No Shave-November or Movember. Ha! Before the rain comes in, don't forget to pack a picnic on a cool crisp day.

Take the family in the car and drive