It’s time for Friday Five linkup with DC area bloggers Courtney at Eat Pray Run DC, Cynthia at You Signed Up for What?!, and Mar at Mar on the Run! This week’s theme is Five Favorite Fall Activities…
During the fall, I pretty much enjoy doing anything that takes me outside in the cool, crisp, autumn air! In keeping with the Friday Five theme, here are my five favorites…
1. Bill and I love trail running in the fall. Last fall, we made our first accent to Molly’s Knob at Hungry Mother State Park, and hope to return again sometime this fall for a repeat, and perhaps find some other new to us trails along the way.
2. It’s no secret that Bill and I love our Hokies, and enjoy going to most of their home games! Going to Lane Stadium for a Virginia Tech football game, and tailgating with our friends before and after the game is one of our favorite fall activities.
3. Every fall, I clean my flower gardens, cutting back my plants that didn’t make it the recent frost, and making my gardens tidy for the winter. Once I get started gardening, I get lost in my work, and usually spend much more time than I realize. Gardening in my suburban lot is a way for me to get back to my farm-girl roots!
4. I enjoy decorating our house for fall almost as much as I do for Christmas! By the end of September, I have my fall foliage up and a few Halloween pieces scattered around. Come November, we are on turkey, Pilgrim, and Indian overload!
5. My mom and I enjoy giving trays of cookies as Christmas gifts, and when I was little we made one batch of cookies each Saturday in October and November, and froze them until Christmas. After I moved away, we started a tradition of having a cookie baking weekend so I could help Mom make her cookies. It’s one of my mom’s and my favorite fall activities.
- Questions:
- What are your favorite fall activities?
- Do you enjoy baking?
- Who’s racing this weekend?
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I love this! Oh this weekend is crazy, it’s my big race, the half Ironman. Then I feel like fall can officially begin!
Cynthia @ You Signed Up For WHAT?! recently posted…Tri Talk Tuesday: Ten Taper Tips
Good luck at your Half Ironman, and be sure to have fun!
I LOVE fall! It’s my birthday season and my favorite racing season. No marathon for me this year, but I have a trail Half this weekend and then a road half in October. I’m also volunteering for a few races, too 🙂 yay fall!
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I’m jealous of your trail half! I have a road half next month (Hokie Half with Meagan), and can’t wait! It will be a beautiful drive down the Shenandoah Valley with the leaves changing colors. We just might have to drive home on Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway!
Those cookies look amazing! I like that you can find joy in tidying your garden, it sounds like such a peaceful way to spend the afternoon and so satisfying when it’s done! Fall decorating is a favorite of mine for sure.
M @readeatwriterun.com recently posted…Friday Five – Fave Fall Activities
I think my mom made about three other batches of cookies while I made and decorated those! We have so much fun just spending time together when we have our cookie baking afternoon. Sometimes we invite three of my cousins that live near Mom to join us! So fun!
Cookie baking! How fun, that’s a really cool tradition! I love to bake as you probably figured 🙂 I’m doing the Clarendon Day 5k/10K, doing the double and getting 9 miles in before hand for a total of 18! 2 long runs to go before taper time!
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It’s good to hear that you’re running strong again, and the injury is behind you!
I love fall baking! I’ll be running the Perfect 10 (I will prob run the 10K vs 10M) as an easy one. I hope to get some hiking and apple picking this season. I love the wreaths on your door – I already picked up some mini pumpkins myself 🙂
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Have fun at the Perfect 10!
I still love decorating our house for Halloween and dressing up.Even though our kids are teens, they still love it. Happy Weekend
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It’s very cool that you dress up for Halloween.. I’m pathetic when it comes to thinking up costumes, but I do love giving out candy to the cute little children that come to our door!
I am definitely taking a trip down to Hungry Mother to run some trails this fall! I think it will be beautiful with the changing leaves 🙂 I like how y’all would make cookies in advance and then freeze them for Christmas. We always had some kind of mad scramble making dozens and dozens of cookies sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas (we would also give them as gifts).
I am running the Virginia 10 Miler this weekend! Y’all should definitely come run this race sometime. Add it to your list for next year!
I’ll have to look into the Virginia 10-Miler. Where is it?
Lynchburg!
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College football and tailgating. That’s fall right there.
John @ run. geek. run(disney) recently posted…Five Favorite Fall Activities | Friday Five
It’s the best!
I also give cookies as Christmas gifts. I always shoot for 12 different kinds (for the 12 days of Christmas), but every year I get so tired of baking (I do it by myself) that I usually stop at 10. I’ll start at the beginning of November and bake every weekend until Christmas. So much work, but so worth it!
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I love your idea of giving away twelve different types of cookies to represent the Twelve Days of Christmas!
I love you decorations, Deb! And those cookies look amazing…what a wonderful idea. Thanks so much for sharing your favorites and I hope you have a great weekend!
Tara @ Running ‘N’ Reading recently posted…Five Favorite Fall Activities
Thanks, Tara. Have a great weekend, too!
i love your cookie making tradition – that’s so fun!
Courtney @ Eat Pray Run DC recently posted…Friday Five: Five Fav Fall Activities
Thanks, Courtney. It’s a fun way to spend time with my mom, too. 🙂
I wish I enjoyed baking, I just have no patience!! but what a cool idea to have a dedicated cookie making sesh!
Mar @ Mar on the Run recently posted…Friday Five: Favorite Fall Activities
Baking seems to be one of those things people either love or hate…
When I lived in Michigan I loved going to the apple orchard and having cinnamon donuts and cider!
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I haven’t had apple cider for several years, and all these apple cider comments are reminding me to buy some this year!
Your decorations and cookies are gorgeous.
I am not racing this weekend but got in 13km. The fall weather was perfect.
Karen – Fit in France recently posted…Friday Five : Favorite Fall Activities
Thank you! I love it when the weather turns, and running gets easier.