YIKES!

What happened to summer?

Technically it isn't summer yet, it's really late spring.

Today, here in the northeast, the temperature never went above the low fifties.

It was raw and damp with a cold, all day rain, more like early spring. Brrr!

It definitely was a soup day.

Hubby requested homemade chicken soup. So I made it for him. It really warmed us up.

I had to cut up onions for the soup.

I don't know about you, but onions make me cry when I cut them.

However, I have a solution for that. I put my cutting board in the vicinity of the gas burner that is turned on under the soup pot.

When you have an open burning flame it burns off the gases the onion emits and voila, no tears.

If you don't have a gas stove, burning a candle works too.

I didn't use all of the onion, so I put the remainder in plastic baggies and then into a plastic container to freeze it for later use in soups or casseroles.

It is supposed to warm up to more seasonable temperatures by week's end.

I hope so because the grass needs cutting and the neighbor's horses are busy eating their own grass.