Fall Memories

[wheezie]

Starting in 1983 and going forward to fall of 1994, on the first full day of school Beth and I would hop into the car and go to Outhouse Orchards (yes that's the name) to buy bushels of tomatoes, string beans and apples. Then back to my place to start the all day canning process, which sometimes lasted until the next day. Jar after jar of canned tomatoes, string beans and apple sauce.

Going back a little further, Dad (my father-in-law) would go to Hunts Point Market and return with bushels of tomatoes which Mom (my mother-in-law) would cook up into sauce and freeze to later make the best gravy you ever tasted.

My Mom, had peach trees and in the fall, I would make the best peach pie and peach cobbler and peach preserves in the whole Bronx. The trees have since died, but I have my memories.

Let's go back even further - my Grandpa, who was born in the late 1800's would bring bushels of snails home. While he was cleaning them, my cousins and I would steal some (of course Grandpa knew what we were doing) and have snail races. What I wouldn't give today to have a dish of spaghetti with that fresh snail sauce, and eat the snails later. Of course I know that most of you would say "yuck", but you don't know until you have tried it.

Just a few memories I had today and wanted to share.

[Fran Gyomory]

Thank you for sharing this special memory with us.

[Joan]

:)My Fall memories are that of going back to school after the summer and actually looking forward to it.

Also, at the end of September my parents would take my brothers and me to Armonk, NY and Bear Mountain where we would pick pumpkins and buy honey. We also collected the beautiful Autumn leaves.

I think Fall is a beautiful time of the year.

[Barry]

I don't like fall because I might hurt myself

[Lenny]

Barry...don't quit your day job....stand up comedian is not your forte. LOL.

To me...Fall always ushered in the holiday season. Thanksgiving and Christmas. The happiest and most exciting time of year.

I know Phyllis..................stop rushing the holidays.....time goes fast enough with rushing it.

But the thread was about what the Fall means to us and that's what it means to me.

Halloween was always fun too. It was innocent in those days. We used to buy chalk at the candy store, stuff it into a sock and bang it on the sidewalk until it turned to powder and then chase the girls and hit their clothes with it and leave the powder all over them. Then it was time for trick or treat going from building to building and apartment to apartment filling our bag with candy.

Just think.......next month is Halloween already!

[Deleted]

YES!, my favorite time of year back HOME! The weather was cool and crisp. Order of the day after school was a pick-up game of touch football out on the block....great memories!

[marylou]

An elderly Italian man named Mr. Lombardo grew grapes on a vine right there on Colden Avenue and I remember the smell of the grapes in the autumn as I passed by to go to school or to the store for my mom. There were always clusters of tiny, really tiny flies or some kind of bugs as I passed by his house. That always signaled the fall and cool weather for me.

By the way, he was a crotchety old grouch and some of the kids loved to challenge each other to grab some grapes without getting caught.