There’s still a lot of snot around here.  I’m not full blown sick yet but I expect it is inevitable.  My immune system has lasted a record-breaking two weeks in a veritable biological war zone without breaking down but it’s only a matter of time before it runs out of resources to fight the super-germs that have been shooting out of my kids orifices for weeks.  I am not happy about this but I am at the point of having to accept my fate and just hope for it to be over quickly because….WE ARE GOING HOME FOR A VISIT IN TWO WEEKS!!!!  I may be just a wee bit excited (read:  peeing my pants!).  I can not wait to see the people I have been missing and just be, well, home.

What else is going on around here? Well it’s Fall. As in Autumn. I have to keep telling myself this because there doesn’t seem to be any environmental evidence to support this. It is still really warm, high teens, sometimes above twenty and probably 75% of the trees still have their leaves.  They are changing colors, but very slowly.  I have always loved fall but I had no idea it could be like this. I had no idea there were places where you could enjoy fall for so long without the threat of frost and winter snow and ice looming on the horizon.  We haven’t had frost here yet!  The flowers are still blooming in people’s yards. The rosebush in my back yard is still producing roses.  I am really enjoying the beautiful red maple leaves although I have been a bit disappointed by them.  You see, I had imagined the ground covered with red leaves and how pretty that would be.  But, as it turns out, leaves all pretty much look brown once they’re of the trees.  The red ones are nice for only a short time after they fall.  We picked some up to mail to friends back home and in the few days after we pressed them they dulled to a much darker color, not the blood red color they were when we first picked them up.  So yeah, dead brown leaves are still there.  But they are a lot easier to stomach when there are still so many green ones on the trees and the weather feels like mid-summer!  (Don’t hate me, Saskatchewan friends!)

So snot and fall. That’s all I have to write about.  Sorry it’s a little bland around here. I’m working on it. Thanks for hanging in there with me!