If you haven’t checked out the column that I write for the Traverse City Record-Eagle before today, this is the perfect day to start.  And if you have?  Well, get on over there.  Unless of course you have a problem with  Honey Gingerbread Bites and Spiced Pumpkin Muffins with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting, romantic nattering about Fall, baking, flannel shirts and frosting thieves…