Fall

We've had two overnight frosts this past week. I actually had to pull out the extra-extra blankets, scrape my car windows almost every morning this week, and don the dreaded 'puff' winter coat. 

That coat was so the thing in high school, but it probably should have stayed in the days of MC Hammer and buzz cuts. I'll forgive its' fooginess though, if only for the fact that it is the warmest coat ever. But I digress. 

After three, four days of overcast, cold, generally colorless days, we get this morning: clear blue sky, sunny as all-get, and a nice almost warm bite to the air. I got the rosemary inside (I'm going to try to keep it alive through the winter this year), all the frost-killed vegetables out of the ground, and the rest of the front pathway in. Being outside, putting my hands in the dirt--- Kinda makes it easy to forget that the world is gonna be ending in another year or so. 

Just something about these clear fall days that make me feel very optimistic. 

The boys had their trunk or treat at their school last night, which meant, of course, that I was scheduled for an evening shift (although, for the first time in almost 3 years, I am not scheduled on Halloween night... thank you!). Anyway, they had a good time hanging out with Mike last night, and are (24 hours later) now out of Halloween candy. They went so far as to chart out a trade exchange for all their candy. To get a 'mystery' dum-dum sucker cost 5 candy bars. 

The dum-dum was the golden standard for some reason. Next on the list was the kit-kats. 

Personally, I stand by my rolos.