Y’all know I love mild weather, and fall is just the best time of year (spring is a close second). The temperature here is finally getting to the sweet spot, though it’s still too hot to do anything very strenuous unless you just really want to live in the shower. Which means that my project for today, making chicken meatball noodle soup, may be a fool’s errand.
But it’s fall, and I want soup, dammit. The Holderness Family knows how I feel (or at least Kim does).
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I think stores should not start putting out Christmas stuff and promotions until the day after Thanksgiving. Yes I know that is the infamous “Black Friday” but that doesn’t change my mind.
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Totally agree. The charm of the Christmas season, in the secular sense, is the rush of anticipation in the limited time, of gifts, seeing relatives briefly, and madly shopping. If you start in July, it’s all lost.
I had an odd thought: What if Heaven is real and it’s one infinitely-long church service? I prefer anticipation and surprises, and relief when it’s over. Sorry.
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Fall is my favorite time of year. October is my favorite month. I detest all the retail greed that has pushed Christmas and Halloween into September and earlier. Not only absurdly early but totally ignoring and bypassing Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday for decades.
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My memory may not be working well, but I seem to remember the first of October being that time when my grandpa would put on his long handles for the coming cooler weather. The first of October is in a couple of days, and I can’t see turning off the air conditioner until after Halloween.
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