Finally Fall

My least favorite months are August and September.  August is just way too hot.  Plus we are so busy with fair and getting ready to go back to school that everyone ends up grumpy.  Now September has a cruel sense of humor.  With the tease of kids in school, fall sports, and cooler nights, September just taunts me with the thought of fall, but then hits me with the reality of days in the upper 80's.  I so love the cooler, sweatshirt weather of fall, that the summer lingering heat just makes me angry.  You think I would know better and just take September for the unstable weather month that it is, but I always hold out hope for a good hard freeze, putting the garden to bed, and the lawnmower away.

Monday was the first real day that it truly felt like fall to me.  The sky was overcast (my personal favorite) and I was content to work inside freezing the remainder of the beans that we'd picked from the garden over the weekend.  So I started my chore with a pleasant demeanor.  This slowly faded, as standing on my feet for three hours seemed to get a little mundane.  I took a break, sat down at my computer and noticed a message from my good friend, Paulette.  A bunch of us "sisters" have a trip planned in November to visit Paulie in Portland.  I simply cannot wait!  She wanted to inform us that a great band, The Devil Makes Three, was going to be in town the same weekend that we were and wondered if we were interested in seeing them.

I searched them on the internet, fell in love with their sound, and spent the next few hours snipping beans and listening to everything I could find on youtube.  Their sound is county/bluegrass/folk like. It certainly has hometown feel that added to that "fall in the air" feeling. Thanks for sharing Paulette!  You can check out one of their tunes here!

I am so excited to reunite with all my lovely friends and see this awesome band.  So see ya September, October you can hurry along, I am looking forward to November and the good times to be had!!