Organize digital photos from summer
Pick raspberries
Plant cool-weather greens
Schedule winter furnace service before weather turns cold
Go on a road trip for the holiday weekend
Soak up the sun at a beach, lake, or watering hole
LABOR DAY
(first Monday of September)
Clean fans and store portable ones
Garden
Harvest fresh herbs (page 64)
Update the family calendar with important dates now that school has started
Pick hot peppers and string them to dry; or make hot-pepper jelly
Garden
Plant spring bulbs in pots (page 64)
Visit a local winery during harvest season (now through early October)
Clean
Swap out seasonal items (page 65)
Scrub porch floors, ceiling, and walls
Harvest the last of the tomato crops, then pull up the plants and compost them
Clean and ready all bird feeders for fall and winter; order bird seed from Audubon
ROSH HASHANAH BEGINS AT SUNDOWN*
(163 days from first day of Passover)
Clean
Ready the kitchen for fall (page 66)
ROSH HASHANAH ENDS AT SUNDOWN
Take the family on a hike
Bring potted plants back inside, if necessary
FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN*
Cook
Prepare a hearty soup (page 66)
Rake the first fall leaves; aerate and seed the lawn
Divide and plant perennials (bearded iris, hosta, phlox, rudbeckia)
Cook
Pick apples; update apple pie (page 67)
YOM KIPPUR BEGINS AT SUNDOWN
(9 days after the first day of Rosh Hashanah)
YOM KIPPUR ENDS AT SUNDOWN
Kids
Plan ahead for school lunches (page 67)
Install storm windows
*ROSH HASHANAH Observed on the first two days of the Hebrew month Tishrei, which can occur anytime between September 5 and October 5.
*FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN Usually falls between September 21 and September 24 in the northern hemisphere.