Where did the month of September go? I’m sure it was August just a minute ago. It still feels like summer in Tucson but there is a hint of fall in the air. I know I’m reaching, okay? So what if it’s only cooler really, really late at night?
At this time of year I always get really homesick for the leaves to change color and the cool wind to whip through my hair. Autumn used to be my favorite season. I guess it still is, but there just isn’t much of one here….yet, <sigh.> Not to worry, I’ve devised a count down list of things I’m going to do in October to make sure that fall doesn’t come and go before I realize it:
10-Get out my fall/Halloween coffee mugs and start using them. One can never have too many coffee cups 😉
9-Pick apples at Apple Annie’s in Wilcox.
8-Bake apple pies.
7-Buy some mums and place them strategically around the patio and front porch (pretend they grew in that way.)
-6 Plant cosmos, snapdragons and pansies (plants get confused here and they think it’s spring.)
5-Get in the studio super early in the morning and open the doors while it’s still cool. Make some fun jewelry and don’t do any cleaning!
4-Put up Halloween decorations and hope the grandkids get to come see them.
3-Visit the Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures (I’ve never been and it will be all decked out in Halloween!)
2-Enjoy an authentic Oktoberfest at Many Hands courtyard (October 5, from 4-10 PM!)
And the #1 Fun thing I’m going to do this October……..
-1 Celebrate Halloween…party with my friends!
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I love your countdown list. . . may not do all, but have on my orange and black earrings today with my orange T-shirt. . . jumping the gun a little, but it’s almost October!
October at last!!!!! Love your list and hope to do a few of the same things–some of them with you! Just today dragged all the boxes of fall decorations out and plopped two ceramic pumpkins on the front porch–now to go get some mums and fall flowers. Woooohoooooo!