“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
The morning is sunny though clouds are predicted for later. Alexa won the morning weather report. Google said it was cloudy while Alexa said sunny. I suggested Google should look out his window.
It’s a pretty morning with a blue sky, a bright sun and a small breeze. It will be in the 60’s. Today is dump day, how exciting! This is a four uke week: practice, a lesson and two concerts. We’re doing cowboy for the concerts then starting transportation 2 with mostly songs about walking for the concerts.
I vacuumed this morning. My house was filled with tumbleweeds, aka dog hair balls, which flew when I walked by them. The dust gave the house a bit of a haunted look, a seasonable look.
When I was a kid, I loved fall. I loved the colored leaves. I’d save them by putting the most colorful, usually yellow, between two pieces of wax paper then I’d iron the paper. Sometimes I’d use cardboard and glue to make a bookmark with the leaves. I’d save the best for Christmas presents.
I remember how wonderful the air smelled on a crisp fall morning. We’d walk on the sidewalk to school. It was covered with fallen leaves from the trees, a sort of arbor, hanging over it. Our steps were silenced, muted, by walking on the coats of leaves. While we were in school, the day warmed. It was perfect for recess and for playing outside in the afternoon.
I was never good at drawing. I drew stick figures and could only differentiated between male and female by giving the females a single line of flipped up longish hair and triangular shaped dresses. The males were au natural, just sticks. I’d give them all fingers, 5 straight lines at the ends of their arms. Sometimes I’d draw a flower on one of the fingers. That was when I felt especially creative.
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October 22, 2023 at 2:54 pm
Hi Kat,
Today is mostly cloudy with a high temperature of only 86°.
It’s not that I don’t like autumn, but it makes me sad because the year is winding down to my least favorite time, the winter solstice holidays. Intellectually, I realize that If we didn’t have Christmas, we would have to invent something to keep the retail business going throughout the year. 🙂
Also, the next season is winter which is just depressing because of the cold and the possibility of snow and ice. I have no interest in winter sports nor the long cold nights. If I was ultimately wealthy, I would have a summer home in the northern hemisphere and a winter home in the Southern hemisphere. Therefore, summer all year long.
I have some artistic talent in my family and I used to draw mostly airplane pictures as a child. When I went to college, I took an introduction to drawing class. I received a grade of D because their art committee decided that they didn’t like any of my work. I think I didn’t get a F because I showed up to class. That’s when I stopped drawing. I have since decided that a horse designed by a committee is a camel. 🙂 I think their committee would have awarded a D to Picasso and Jackson Pollock. 😦
This morning I miraculously recovered from the effect of the Covid-19 vaccination. My physician suggested I wait before taking the RSV vaccine because it’s too new. I did receive both the flu and the pneumonia vaccines last month when I went in for my semiannual physical. My primary care doctor requires I come in twice a year because of my age. The second physical is a joke and gives him more access to my health insurance or Medicare. 🙂 I would not take more than two vaccines at a time. Why tempt fate: or medical science, or aggravate my body. 😦
October 22, 2023 at 10:30 pm
Hi Bob,
We will be in the mid to high 60’s every day this week while the nights will go as low as the 40’s. That is typical weather this time of year here.
I’m in a more wintry part of the country so I wish the cold would stay away as long as possible. For us November usually begins the winter, but I’ve had appetizers on the deck before Thanksgiving dinner. It was warm enough. I had a fire going in my chiminea so it was comfy outside. Last winter we had very little snow. The prediction for this winter is for more snow than last year, but that wouldn’t take much. I don’t mind winter.
Maybe you should take up drawing again. You shouldn’t let other people stop you from doing what you like. You might find you enjoy it again
After my vaccinations, I was lucky. I was tired for one day and had only a bit of a sore arm for also about a day. One arm got flu and Covid. The RSV was the sore arm. I couldn’t get an appointment at Walgreen’s. but they give up to 4 vaccines at once. CVS allows only three. I need to make an appointment for pneumonia and the second shingles. I also go twice a year for a physical, also because of my age.
At the beginning of Peace Corps training we got a lot of shots. Yellow fever was before we left. One day in country, we went through the line and got 5 shots and liquid polio vaccine. The only reaction was I had a fever the next day for only that day.
October 22, 2023 at 11:16 pm
Of course, you were much younger when you went in the Peace Corps. My Rangers lost three straight games at home in Arlington to the Astros and won the first two in Houston. The Rangers just won game six in Houston and forced a game seven tomorrow night. Go Rangers!
October 22, 2023 at 11:46 pm
I would have taken the four shots if I had gotten a time at Walgreen’s. I haven’t yet had reactions to the shots of the last few years. I’m lucky I figure.
Last week was the anniversary of the Sox coming back from 3 losses to take the series.