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It’s Labor Day weekend here in the United States, also known as Summer’s Last Hurrah. So let’s say goodbye to summer and hello to the autumn.
1. Share a highlight from this summer. (If you please, don’t just say “our vacation to the Canadian Rockies.” Give us a little detail or image. Help us live vicariously through you!)
Sitting on a bench in the corner of the nunnery ruins on Iona, writing and sketching the mossy grass and flowers that adorn the ol’ girl, watching a storm roll in and waiting until the last possible moment to leave. (I barely outran it.)
2. Are you glad to see this summer end? Why or why not?
I do love fall, but I am actually sorry to see summer end. I never made it to the beach. But the sooner summer ends, the sooner we will be able to meet the Bonus Baby.
3. Name one or two things you’re looking forward to this fall.
Besides the obvious (see #2), I’m looking forward to The Sabbath Project, traveling to Doublemint City to meet a new nephew, some church transformation training I’m doing, more writing… that’s enough.
4. Do you have any special preparations or activities to mark the transition from one season to another? (Cleaning of house, putting away summer clothes, one last trip to the beach)
Not really. The transition of my closet is annoyingly gradual. I wish it could all get done at once. But then, I guess the weather doesn’t change all at once either.
5. I’ll know that fall is really here when ________.
We’ve made our trip to Local Pumpkin Farm for their fall festival. Hay rides, slides for the kids, apples and fresh cider.
We’re also going to go apple picking as a family sometime this next month.
How about you?
Image is The Four Seasons I by Pham An Hai (More info here)
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Meeting the Bonus Baby sounds very exciting!! Blessings on your fall!!
You do have a new way of life to anticipate, don’t you?
one of the joys of the seasonal shift here is to see the drama of the suns march. in the winter the suns sets so far to the south of west and in the summer it sets a bit north of west. (i haven’t compassed it so it might be true west in summer but it’s dramatically different from winter.
i’m looking forward to the dryer air of fall middays which is so energizing and the early fog of fall mornings. and when the growing season slows there will be fewer weeds to pull. that sounds good to me.
even though it’s been years since we did back to school shopping for our kids, i still get the urge to buy new notebooks and pencils and crayons in early september.
and of course i can tell it’s fall when i start to “whip myself into shape” organizationally. every year i think i’ll come up w/ the perfect system that will cause my house to be clean, my bills be paid and filed, my church and neighborhood commitments to be fulfilled effortlessly, and my christmas shopping to be completed before thanksgiving. isn’t it wonderful how hope springs eternally!
I usually love Summer, but this year I’m looking forward to Fall. Not for the same reason as you, although I certainly wouldn’t mind a bonus like yours. Happy gestating.
Nice play! And thanks for coming up with yet another wonderful Friday Five.
I would love to go to Iona
Wow. Apples and pumpkins… sounds marvelous to me! And may all the joys of that “bonus” be yours…!!
deb
Bonus babies, Iona, apples and pumpkins and rain.
Love all the images. Thank you.
Sounds like a bountiful harvest coming! Great play.
Great play indeed. Love all the images. I have a friend from Scotland who travels back home annually, and usually visits Iona while there. In October she will take a group from the CA church she is serving on a tour (how I wish I could go too) A blessed fall to you, Rev. M. Thanks for this great Friday 5.
I wish we had apple picking here…
You make me jealous with your trip to IONA.
But bonus baby coming soon is neat.
Thanks for the great friday five.
I’m glad Fall is coming because Synder Boyz love bukkins (though this year they’ll be able to say “punkin”); but sad Summer is ending because I won’t have another pool season with two-year-olds ecstatic and astonished over water wings.
Hi.
Just wondering how you are doing as you await BB.
Loved the hiccup poem. That one needs to be illustated and published in a book.
Do you do illustartions or could you get the girls to do them?
Alos, a trip to the pumpkin farm and apple cider soudns so wonderful.
Though I know you can’t drink it now, pumpkin beer is wonderful. Drinking beer is suppossed to speed up milk production once you are nursing. Since I dont have kids, I can’t speak of this from expereince. Sounds like a good reason to drink a beer later on though!