Enter the Fall

The Bundle and I recently came back from  a trip to San Diego (a trip originally all three of us were to go on), leaving Lionel to his own devices, ice, elevated feet and numerous distractions to keep him sane.  The trip was to participate in the wedding of an old high school friend.  She was the Best Person at my own wedding and she returned the favor, right down to letting me choose my own dress-- a nice gesture in theory, except she forgot that when we were in high school I relied on her fashion sense to get myself dressed and presentable in the mornings, and frequently borrowed her old prom dresses to go to formal affairs, having no idea what to wear on my own.  Anyway, a dress was found, altered, and sent to San Diego along with myself and my daughter, and we came back to the cold October weather just after the peak of leaf-peeping season.

Still, the days warm up enough that coats are no longer necessary, and the remaining garden tasks-- harvesting carrots, planting garlic, spreading manure, have been accomplished in the warm fall sun.   The leaves are now bright yellow, still smling brightly at us before they all fall.  We're doing other things, too, now that we've matured enough to really live in this old house of ours; replacing sliders that have failed to keep the winter in and were installed backwards in any case to begin with, splitting poplar wood for the fireplace so that we can have warm nights by a crackling fire, and in general putting it all to bed before the big freeze comes and we hibernate for the next 4 months.  Or at least until sugar season.

tags: back on the farm