Fall. The colors are amazing for this color junkie - truly amazing. So many opportunities to shoot fabulous photos - intense colors and dramatic changes. It is our first full-time Fall here in the mountains. The weather is chilly, with the midday warm up only making it to 75o. Soup and crusty breads for dinners before our fire. It will soon change again and we will slip into winter. The cold that comes with Autumn is different - it is like it plays tag - pushing and then trying to slip back behind the rays of sunshine. Eventually, it settles in and stays. It is not unwelcome at first - but some say we will tire of it. As long as we have plenty of firewood and hot,steamy coffees, teas or cocoas in our cups to keep our hands warm, it will be embraced.
I realize I have few clothes to suit the season. A few sweaters, a light jacket, my gloves (if I can find them). I keep heisting DHs socks for wearing with my boots. Slippers have replaced my barefoot ways around the house. The Birkenstocks are currently stored safely away. Sweats to snuggle in. Definitely have to consider investing in a jacket to match the season. They are predicting the first snowfall before Thanksgiving....
Lots of baking and cooking - the breads and soups - and making jams and apple butter later this week. Maybe can up some baked apples. Apple pie filling? Don't know. Being housebound will lead to some experimentation in the kitchen I suspect. The oven being on is okay now. Cookies anyone? Tonight's offering - spicy chili and corny corn muffins - two nights worth of dinner for one cooking - spicy to warm the insides...
It is harder to get out of bed at 4 AM right now...the bed is so warm and the world so cold. What will tempt me out? Cinnamon toast? Pumpkin Cream of Wheat? Options have to include hot coffee for sure - and lots of it - to set up the mind and body for the day to come. We need to start out thanking God because we are vertical and above the turf...and certainly for coffee.
DD and DSIL are coming to visit in a couple of weeks. It will be fun to see her reaction to the house addition and changes we have made - working to finish the kitchen over the next two weeks - move the hot water heater, new paint, flooring, replacing the refrigerator and stove and a new pantry cabinet. A little organization. The house will be complete, other than moving the washer and dryer inside to the laundry room....They can visit the places DD has loved all of her life and spend the chilly evenings before the fire with us. Can't come soon enough....
If you have a chill in the Autumn air where you are, find someone you love to snuggle up with - if it is not chilly, turn down the air conditioner and then snuggle....
Be blessed,
Kim
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