Hi, friends!
August is over! Hopefully anyone suffering through hot weather will start to see some cooling with September evenings.
Is there anything specific to fall that you look forward to? I have a friend who loves Halloween Reese’s pumpkins and swears they taste better than the normal peanut butter cups. I have several friends who just can’t wait to be rocking big comfy sweaters. Or are all about that pumpkin spice lifestyle.
For me, it’s fresh apples and fall veggies like squashes and kale. Fresh apples are so fundamentally better than what I can get in the store the rest of the year that I usually don’t buy apples except in September and October.
I like seeing Halloween decorations, which are now as elaborate as Christmas decorations. The concept still feels new to me; when I was young Halloween decorations were construction paper pumpkins and ghosts.
Halloween will be a thing at my house this year. I made major decorations for the library last year, and now my wife doesn’t work there. I, however, still have the decorations, so I will be putting on a display. Can’t wait.
Pics or it didn’t happen!
I remember that, and I think you did post pics, didn’t you?
I meant AGAIN.
I agree, worthy of a revisit.
There will be new additions, so pictures are mandatory.
They should still be construction paper Jack-o-lanterns & ghosts.
Cooler weather. Between broken AC and 90+ degree heat, I’m over summer. Way over.
Cooler temps, sweaters, socks, soup and bread for dinner.
normally i would whole heartedly agree with all of that
but with gas currently sitting pretty at €3,45 per m3….im kinda rooting for summer hanging on till about…april
really…..i am dreading needing to heat the place
The first frost.
FUCK RAGWEED!
For some reason this year hasn’t been horrible for me. Nothing’s growing on my lawn due to the dry season.
I have the dry itchy eyes, but no runny nose.
Surprisingly my allergies haven’t been bothering me as of yet and usually I have hay fever all summer. IDK what is going on but I am sure they’ll be bothering me soon. Ragweed travels 500 miles (or KMs?) so I’m sure I’m in for a rude awakening.
Oh yeah, transition from spring & summer allergies to mold & dust allergies, good times!
We have a big hornet nest under the eaves and I’m hoping for a timely killing frost so I can take it down without spraying.
I LOVE sweater (and hoodie!) weather!😁🤗🥰
I like “crunching” leaves as ya walk, “good sleeping weather,” and daytime temps in the 60’s-70’s…
I HATE the hot parts of summer, and the cold parts of winter, but adore a good spring/fall.
Campfire weather, fireplace weather, etc… a good foggy morning, the color changing on the trees, apple season & chokecherries, too.
Making jams, jellies, cordial, & syrups.
Baking season & the change to “hotdish” season from the “ehhhh, it’s toooooo hot to eat!”
Hubbard & Turban squashes…
And I gotta admit, I’ve always been “that weirdo” who kinda likes “Back to School” time!😉😁🤗💖
I LOVE getting “the new crop of kids” in, and learning *who they are* and what their skills are…
And then *getting to work* and helping them to grow that “Life Skills Toolbox”!😃💝💫
Seeing their “behaviors” decrease, their skills & self-confidence INCREASE, and their communication & self-regulation blossom🥰
The change, from the little ones who walk into our classrooms in the fall (or are carried in via wagon sometimes, if I’m really honest! 😆😂🤣), and the children they *leave* as, later in the school year, is SO COOL to witness & being a part of their skill-set growth is one of my absolute FAVORITE things💖💞💗💝
So I ADORE the fall, and these couple weeks, when we’re doing our trainings, setting up the classrooms, reading IEP’S & learning what the evaluation team & parents have told us about the children–then meeting the kiddos and seeing how accurate those assessments *really* were, is a TON of fun!😁💖
I hope the kids are excited as you are…knowing they’re not. lol
@MyopicProphet–plenty of them will haaaaaaaaate us those first weeks!!!😉😆😂🤣
Since we’re pre-K special Ed, and especially post-covid?
Pleeeeenty of our 3’s have *never* been cared for by anyone but family, and won’t have EVER been to daycare…
So we are TERRIBLE and scary, horrible, people, who “took away Mommy & Daddy!”
Unnnntil about a month-or-so in, and they start to realize they DO get to go home by lunchtime (our morning kids) or mid-afternoon (the ones who arrive at noon-ish).
Once they settle in, it’s good–but we ALWAYS have a couple who seriously just SOB (sometimes, in a heap on the floor–usually cuddled up in someone’s lap!😉) the first couple days.
And by the END of the school year? Those ones are *typically* the ones who won’t want to leave school, to go home at the end of their school day!😂🤣💝
Fresh hop beers are coming soon! The first hops are now being harvested, my hops are 2 weeks from being harvested. First fresh hop beers should start showing up in about a month. Yummmmmm!
I’m sure this will be covered in the DOT tomorrow but Sarah Palin just lost to a native Alaskan!
But the Discovery Channel assured us she was as Alaskan as they come….
Did you know that Sarah Palin’s father was (he’s still alive but I assume he’s retired) a science teacher?
I did not but I have mentioned before that my cousins used to babysit her kids before she was mayor of Wasilla. I guarantee they did NOT vote for her. She pissed off much of Alaska where you never abandon people before a job is done.
I used look forward to my cable shows staring up again. Streaming services have since filled the summer void and I’m less desperate for new things to watch come Fall.
My goal is to make it to well into October before I have to wear socks for anything besides working outside. When I lived in California, I went entire years without socks or long pants and it was rather glorious. We’re in the hills now, so I have to protect myself from the occasional tick (I still haven’t seen any, but my neighbors got Lyme’s and had to get treated).
Good news is on the horizon for you @LuigiVuoto