I seriously love autumn. I love the crisp mornings, sunny days, and spectacular colors! It’s been a wonderful summer, and I am feeling blessed. Daylight savings time ended yesterday, so the days are getting shorter. Now it’s time to start counting the reasons to be Thankful, because Thanksgiving will be here soon. My mom has already started Christmas shopping, and time is going by so fast it’s hard to slow down and enjoy the moments. But it has been a glorious time to be in the mountains.
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Saturday afternoon after a couple of quick rain showers |
Yesterday was a great day. We had NO plans, so stayed in all day. J loves Sundays. He sits down in front of the NFL RED ZONE at 1:00, before the first game starts, and basically stays there until he shuffles to bed and falls asleep watching the last game. I get football by osmosis: based on what he yells, I pretty much figure out what happens. But I can’t watch the Red Zone. I call it football for A.D.D. You start watching one game, and they suddenly switch to another one when you look down to check your email…I just can’t keep up. But it makes him very happy. The leaves up here peaked about a week ago, and we’ve had a couple of rains this week so they are all coming down. I love the way the roads look when the leaves have just fallen.
I spent my day reading, catching up on TV shows on my ipad, and starting a new painting. I hope I’ll be able to capture the glorious colors I saw last week.
We celebrated my young girlfriend’s 50th last week in beautiful Callaway Gardens!
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Dressed all in pink for dinner…we don’t like to call attention to ourselves at all! |
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It was a glorious crisp fall weekend, and we had so much fun relaxing, freezing our tuccas off while biking around the property, and seeing the beautiful gardens and butterflies. We wanted to go dancing, but the metropolis of Pine Mountain, Georgia didn’t really offer anywhere to go, so we cranked up the music and danced in the parking lot!
We never saw another guest anywhere around, since we were in between seasons, so we kind of had the place to ourselves. And then we went inside, changed into our pjs, and continued the dance party. Maybe since most of us are over 50 we should act more like our age, but what’s the fun in that?
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Must have been a really heartfelt song! |
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The horticultural center with our awesome volunteer tour guide |
J and I FINALLY played golf. It rained so much at the beginning of the summer (over 100″ before the end of July!), and J was still recovering from ACL surgery, that this was our first time of the year. I wish I could say I played well, but I didn’t suck as much as I thought I would. It was a beautiful day, and we had a blast. Hoping to play a couple more times this week.
We were invited to a friend’s sister’s house to watch the Trick-or-Treating in Brevard. They actually close her street and it is absolutely crazy! I miss those days.
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A live pony!! How cool is that? |
Speaking of Trick or Treating…no trick or treating in college, but parties every day of the week! My little activist H went dressed as one of her heroines…Rachel Carsen. (For those of you, like me, who don’t know who she was, click on her name for more info).
She and her friend J also dressed up as Sam and Suzy from the movie “Moonrise Kingdom“. She told me she bought the red dress and sewed the collar and cuffs on them herself. Who knew she could sew?