Just a day away and I will start the cooking extravaganza tomorrow. It seems as though I plan and look ahead to the holidays, but they always arrive surprisingly quick, why is that? We warmed up this week, but are promised a drop in temperature over the holiday. With wet… not my favorite weather condition. […]
November
November Heats Up
…into the 40’s anyway. It has actually been very nice weather lately (for November, all things considered!). My daughter held a bonfire get-together with a few of her friends that had the right amount of briskness. With pleasant enough conditions to make some-mores and hot chocolate just the thing for a fun gathering, my husband […]
Rural Observations 11/08
Even though most trees have lost their leaves, and without a good show of color, around here… for some reason the ones who held out ( or more precisely held onto) now are showing a surprising blaze of last color. Certainly it isn’t as effective as when the trees all color en masse, but it […]
The Dark Side
Turning back the clocks has caused us to take note of turning toward the dark side of our seasons on this hemisphere. When I was @ Curves this evening the ladies were all talking about how dark it was already, and hoping it was just the effect of the storm clouds gathering. But no, we […]
Leaf Day
It was “leaf day” at our household this Saturday. Everyone worked on getting a couple acres worth of property cleared of leaves. Since we have a sort of savannah, trees interspersed among the grassed yard, that means we can’t just let the leaves sit all winter; they blow everywhere in the winter winds, anyway. It […]
Indian Summer
The weatherman tells me I can expect an end to the lovely Indian Summer we have had. Is it coincidental that it comes over the Thanksgiving holiday and remains just almost until the end of this November? Is that how the first Thanksgiving was enjoyed? With unexpected warmth, and delicious promises that held no inkling […]
