10 things I forgot about fall
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Fall…it happens once a year. But every year I get taken by surprise. Here’s all the stuff I forgot from last year:
1. How freaky temps can be here in Kentucky. This morning, it’s 40. Wednesday, it might hit 80.
2. How incredibly hard it is to dress appropriately in said freaky weather. Like yesterday…when I thought it wouldn’t be too bad to go out in low-50 degree weather in a long-sleeved shirt and a thin hoodie…and I froze.
3. How awesome hoodies feel.
4. How quickly all of my socks get dirty and I have to wash my whites twice as often. (Maybe I should just buy more socks?)
5. How stinkin hard it is to get out of bed at 7:20…especially in the weeks between September 21st and “Fall Back”…cuz it just keeps getting darker and darker…and colder and colder.
6. How expensive my electric bill can get…oh wait, I didn’t really forget about that. It looms over my head all summer long, every time I get a cheap bill I hear the voices laughing at me: JUST YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU START RUNNING YOUR HEAT! MUWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
7. How much colder 68 degrees (our heat setting) is than 71 degrees (our AC setting). This morning I cheated compromised and set it at 70 cuz I was freezing. I’ll pay for it later.
8. How quickly the trees go from green to brilliant to bare. I think this process goes more quickly every year.
9. How comforting it is to take a freezing-my-butt-off walk down a trail, in the crunchy leaves, in a hoodie…with my kid, in a hoodie.
10. How much more capacity I have to love coffee…cuz how much I love coffee in summer doesn’t even compare to how much I love coffee in the fall.
8 Comments
Janine Huldie
Oh so true about the fall and I too love the fall time, but forget some of the things you mentioned above. Great job reminding and pointed them out here, especially the love of hoodies 🙂
Aprille
Thanks for all your comments!!
Amy
You are so right – it seems to go faster every year! Here in CT, the trees will be bare in a week or so. It’ my favorite season and I wish it would last longer. 🙂 And I love coffee more in the fall / winter too…and homemade soup.
Aprille
ahhh…soup. how could i forget! this week I made this: http://intentionalbygrace.com/2012/10/17/hamburger-vegetable-soup-freezer-cooking/
Audrey Howitt
So true! We had the same odd fluctuations in temps out here in CA this year–hopefully I will be doing the rain dance tomorrow!!
Aprille
I love fall rains! thanks for stopping by!
Wanda
aww nice cool weather, autumn colored leaves, hoodies, footballl, oh wait, Im dreaming, I live in Florida! Still high 80’s here and I am still working on my tan!! ;-0
Aprille
Ha well come January when all the Christmas stuff is put up, the fascination will have worn off and I’ll be wishing I was in Florida! I love fall and winter and snow and Christmas and football, but come January 1st I’m pretty much like, “okay, I’m ready for it to be 70 degrees now!!”