Saturday, September 17, 2011

fall weather

You can tell we are a busy family in the fall when school goes back in session.  I hadn't realized it had been so long since I chipped in.  Tara and her family are still house hunting in San Diego.  Gabi and her family are into their school activities. And I'm just puttering around.

I got an email from my cousin in Indiana and they have cold weather up there already, frost expected, and I started thinking about the redbone hound dog I had when I was a teenager and we lived out in the country.  He loved fall weather after the heat of the summer.  When he went out in the morning, he'd go down to the hollow and chase a rabbit all the way across the hollow.  In the summer he did that too but they didn't run as fast. But in the fall he'd wait until the rabbit stuck his nose up and chase him all the way back around.  And then he'd come sauntering in with his tongue hanging out and looking sooooo pleased with himself.  He really got pumped up to go hunting when the weather cooled down.

So let's enjoy whatever cooler weather we get and I'll try not to complain.  I'm a 75 degree person but we don't have snow here at least and last year our winter was only like three weeks long.  Here's to another one.