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Saturday Puzzle-Contest: Are you ready for hot cocoa season?
Saturday, September 21st, 2024

UPDATE: The winner is…Rachel Blackburn!
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I’m finally exiting Chemo Week Hell. I had seven hours of sleep last night and woke feeling weak but not uncomfortable or hurting. Yay. Today, I’ll use every excuse to get up and move around to get my legs feeling stronger. Gosh, I’ll even shower. Just kidding. I do shower. 🙂

Today’s Puzzle Day! And what’s on my mind? Well, the weather. Here we are at the beginning of Fall, and yesterday, the temperature here in Arkansas was 95 degrees. Today, it’s supposed to get to 96.

I’m sorry. Pool season is over. It’s time for sweaters and hot chocolate. In fact, I’m making a grocery list and adding hot cocoa to it because it’s one of those things I love having during cooler weather.

For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift certificate, tell me what you enjoy eating or imbibing when Fall weather truly arrives!

24 comments to “Saturday Puzzle-Contest: Are you ready for hot cocoa season?”

  1. Laura Bowles
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    · September 21st, 2024 at 8:12 am · Link

    Southwestern Ontario has been nearly 80 for 2 weeks with no rain and weather man says maybe another 2 week in the high 70’s. It’s really odd to be that warm in Southwestern Ontario. I’m still running my AC which I normally turn off the time of year.



  2. Deb Brown
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    · September 21st, 2024 at 8:36 am · Link

    Weather is better in Northern Virginia not to hot but not really cold yet. Things seem to be gong according to the current weather plan for this area. AC is still running but expect to change over sometime next month.



  3. Pansy Petal
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    · September 21st, 2024 at 8:53 am · Link

    Squash. I got my first squash last week, but it has been too hot to enjoy it yet. Fortunately, that will last a bit. Then there is apples, fresh from the tree. So crisp and juicy. Add some apple cider, and well that says fall. Now, as you said, if the weather would co-operate.



  4. Rachelle Lerner
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    · September 21st, 2024 at 10:31 am · Link

    I like hot apple cider almost anytime. Usually in the fall, I can get bottled cider locally and do not have to rely on boxed.



  5. Carol Cox
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    · September 21st, 2024 at 12:48 pm · Link

    I like pumpkin spice latte and pumpkin pie.



  6. Colleen C.
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    · September 21st, 2024 at 12:55 pm · Link

    love apple cider donuts, pumpkin pie and hot chocolate!



  7. Amy Fendley
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    · September 21st, 2024 at 1:10 pm · Link

    I just printed out a recipe yesterday to make my own Hot Chocolate mix. The powdered sugar surprised me but everything else I knew. I like Hot Chocolate all year long so it’s not really special just for fall.
    We are going to my husband’s family reunion and we have an auction every year to pay for the next year’s reunion, so I am going to make up a batch and put them in pint jars. Glad you are able to get up and around today.



  8. Carol Cox
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    · September 21st, 2024 at 1:36 pm · Link

    I love pumpkin pie and pumpkin spiced latte.



  9. Carol
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    · September 21st, 2024 at 1:38 pm · Link

    I like apple dumpling and spiced cider.



  10. Jennifer Beyer
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    · September 21st, 2024 at 4:48 pm · Link

    I like hot cocoa but I drink a lot of hot tea because it’s so soothing.



  11. Diane Sallans
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    · September 21st, 2024 at 4:55 pm · Link

    coming into the season for warm apple pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream – and also having fresh apple cider (tho it seems to be available all year now)



  12. BN
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    · September 21st, 2024 at 7:56 pm · Link

    hot cocoa



  13. Sara
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    · September 21st, 2024 at 10:42 pm · Link

    Fall is Hamburger Stew time for our family, also called Hobo Stew. We grew up on it. Mom could not afford stew meat, so used hamburger instead. With corn bread and ice tea, we are happy.



  14. Mary Preston
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    · September 22nd, 2024 at 4:14 am · Link

    A hot chocolate for me.



  15. Debra Guyette
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    · September 22nd, 2024 at 5:40 am · Link

    I shall take the hot chocolate with whipped cream.



  16. Charlene Whitehouse
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    · September 22nd, 2024 at 7:33 am · Link

    Apple cider donuts



  17. Teresa Christianson
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    · September 22nd, 2024 at 8:25 am · Link

    Hot chocolate



  18. Mary McCoy
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    · September 22nd, 2024 at 9:52 am · Link

    Homemade stews and soups with freshly baked bread.



  19. Beckie
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    · September 23rd, 2024 at 7:01 pm · Link

    Apple Cider, hot apple Cider, mulled cider, hot chocolate, apple pie, Dutch apple pie, apple crisp, my mom’s homemade apple sauce, pumpkin pie, apple, zucchini, pumpkin bread.



  20. Beth
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    · September 24th, 2024 at 12:15 pm · Link

    Wow! one of my fastest solves yet-3:01
    I like warm apple cider for the fall and hot chocolate for the winter. Banana bread or most cookies fresh from the oven. Blueberry muffins too.



  21. Rachel Blackburn
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    · September 29th, 2024 at 9:18 am · Link

    Kentucky weather is being Kentucky weather lol The only “autumn temps” we’ve had have been with the storms from Hurricane Helene.

    I’m all ready to start making Bison chili, pumpkin bread, and Caramel Apple Sangria.



  22. Margaret
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    · September 29th, 2024 at 10:35 am · Link

    Home made soups, butternut especially and some yummy apple cider.



  23. Beverly
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    · September 29th, 2024 at 2:02 pm · Link

    I like to have a hot chocolate in the evenings once it gets cooled. I do add either a flavored coffee creamer (like caramel) or some Baileys Irish Cream or Rum Chatta to mine though.



  24. Delilah
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    · October 2nd, 2024 at 7:13 am · Link

    Thanks for sharing! I’m ready to break out the hot chocolate even though it was 87 degrees yesterday!!!!!

    The winner of the GC (chosen by a random number generator) is…Rachel Blackburn!



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