Fall

I love fall. I love all the seasons (except summer) but I love fall the best. I love the crispness in the air. One thing I miss the most living in Texas, is the beautiful colors of the trees. In Texas it seems that, except for a few days, we go straight from air conditioning to heating. I loved having the house opened up and the fresh air blowing through it. I can't do that these days because all my screens are bad but when your mother was little I would open up the house and air it out. I also love to bake in the fall. I love to make cookies, cakes and pies. The house open and the smell of fresh cookies baking in the oven is just a wonderful thing. I also like hot chocolate or hot spiced wine. Sitting beside a nice fire in the evening. Guess I'm getting ahead of myself. That's more for winter.

Yesterday I caught everyone outside when I went over to visit. It was so nice to stand out there and visit and not feel like you are melting. Of course scaring everyone when I came around the corner was fun too. And I hadn't even planned on that. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea since Terry was holding an axe but I kept my scalp so everything turned out fine.

I had so much fun last night. We had a very nice dinner with Tom and Patti. Missy and I got tickled on the way home and I laughed so hard my face and stomach hurt. That doesn't happen that often but I love it when it does. Makes me feel so good to have a really good laugh. Laughing is good. Sometimes life gets in the way and we forget to laugh. I had forgotten to really laugh for a few years but lately I've had a few really great belly laughs. Laughing until you cry. Those are so good. Hopefully there will more of them. I don't ever want to forget to laugh.