There is a bit of red on the leaves of the tree outside my kitchen window this morning. I find this especially pleasing as I had resigned myself to the fact the leaves were just going to fall off without color this year due to lack of rain. Then last night we have a touch of rain and voila'! Color! Thanks God. It is black out this morning and breezy and very autumnal feeling. Though iwouldn't presume to try out the little nut brown cardigan yet; they say we're to get a high of 74 degrees. At least it looks like autumn now:)
I'm looking forward to this weekend. The church is having ladies outdoor movie night and showing Anne of Green gables...I'm packing up my popcorn, drinks and chair and definately heading down for that! The next night we're meant to be going to two parties at the same time. One a costume party and one a birthday party. I realized last night that I not only have us double booked...but our built in babysitters are going to be in Harvey cedars for the youth retreat. Jedd is fine home alone during the day but I can't leave him home alone at night! Could spell trouble. Thom and I are guilty of often blowing off parties...because we're (I) social cripples. But we blew off the costume party last year and then on top of that Linda (whose party it is) bought 3 lovely glass cake stands at the shop last week and was walking. So I told her I'd drop them off on my way home from work. She was leaving early the next morning for West Virginia so needed them. At 12:15 in the night, I sat bolt upright in bed. I forgot to deliver them! I pulled on clothes and put the leash on the dog and drove to the store. It's scary in that back parking lot in the middle of the night. Eli the wonder dog stayed right by my side. I don't know if he was scared too, or protecting me. We fetched the cake stands, drove to Linda's and put them on the front porch where she'd have to see them when she went out to her car. I just hope some of the folks that were walking the streets in those wee hours didn't also see them. I haven't spoken with Linda since then...but I sure can't blow off her party again! Thom and I may just have to do the parties in shifts. Boy do we take our girls for granted!
~The next night my aunt and uncle are coming in from Vermont for a visit. I'm very excited to see them. We've been cleaning and taking garbage bags full of clothing and such stuff to the Lutheran Mission. Nothing like out-of-town guests to get the house cleaned up...
~I suppose I should go wake the other kids (Emma has already been in school for an hour) Jedd has the new Peter and the Secret Of Rundoon book, so he stayed up late reading. I shut him down at 11:30. Which seems to be his new bedtime as he always has his nose in a book, in bed. I can't bring myself to make him close the book at 9:30 which seems a very reasonable time for an 11 y.o., because I remember reading till the flashlight died under the covers, and then taking my book to the bathroom and locking myself in there till I could barely keep my eyes open when I was his age. It seems silly to make him sneak-read when he can sleep in on the other side of the night. On the other hand he is definately re-setting his internal clock this way, I'm quite sure. That can't be good, can it?
Now I'm babbling so I'll end here...Have a good day dear friends who have taken the time to stop by and visit~