The snow started this evening and is already covering and I imagine by morning there will be enough on the ground to make it look like winter. At least until around noon or maybe eleven o’clock when the sun gets ahold of it but I suppose we’ll see.
As my mom would put it, “If that’s fall I suppose we’ve had it.”
We’ve had it indeed. A splendid September and even if the month was a bit much in terms of school groups and church groups and work type obligations we had our fun. Between the hiking and the fishing and the running we did indeed have fun and we roll into a quieter month now and the season seems to be letting out it’s gut after a month of holding it in to look trim for the pretty girls.
October 2nd and it’s white outside. Welcome to Canada. I guess it’s time to get out the skis;)
Our flip flops started their seasonal migration to the basement today and I found my winter boots just to make sure I know where they are and what with the furnace running a little more than it has and a chill wind knocking down the last of the fall leaves I suppose there is time for some good ol’ cogitation. (go ahead and look that one up, I did)
Thanksgiving rolls in on us next weekend and with it a day the significance of which is that it means I have existed on this planet for 33 years. I’ve had it pretty darn good in that run too. Sometimes I let myself spin up in the negative. If focus too much on how much money we owe or how we can’t seem to get ahead with our savings or our freedom 105 plan but really, let’s big picture this for a minute: the fridge is full of food, the truck is full of gas, the lights come on when you turn the switch and more important than all of that is that there is a houseful of healthy, happy people who love each other to take advantage of those comforts.
That’s the kicker right there, healthy and happy people who love each other.
On Friday family starts showing up to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving (sorry my American friends, it’s not your turn yet) and we will eat too much and visit a lot and in the way of those who aren’t as excited to keep track anymore we will eat a “fall birthdays” cake for my mom, myself and my brother in law.
I am so thankful for my family: my wife who keeps me sane, my kids who push me the other direction, and all the other members of my family, blood and otherwise who have helped to make me who I am. Community has been the key word in my life in recent years and I want to thank all of you for being part of my community in some way.
Oh, and pie, I’m thankful for pie.
I know it may not be thanksgiving where you live (heck, it isn’t here yet either) but take a moment today to think of something you are thankful for.