It's Fall!!

Oct 02, 2009

FALL IS HERE! FALL IS HERE!! FALL IS HERE!!!

I am so sick of hot. It was 95 degrees the other day. It was 39 when I walked out my front door this morning! It's gonna be about 70 today. I am wearing a cardigan right now. Although we don't get a big color change in the landscape here -- some of the plants get a little more red or brown, but most are dead from the blast furnace heat and lack of water already -- this is my favorite season here in the desert.

Course, now I'm like a mother hen clucking over all the baby cacti and desert plants I planted in the heat of the summer.  I gotta get some stone mulch in pronto! I know some of them won't make it through the winter.

Small NSV: I can zip up my coat now. When I was down to 260 about 5 years ago I bought a 3X (24-26) coat from Land's End. It fit perfect then. Then I regained a bunch. I refused to buy a new coat. I'd just wear it unzipped with a muffler on really cold days. I had a lot of padding and didn't spend a lot of time outside.

When I could get it zipped, I looked like an enormous magenta bumblebee. Now it almost fits. It's not swinging freely, but I don't look like a purple Michelin man anymore either.

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