Autumn is Here!

I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since my last I LoveThe Fall photos and posts. This is one of my favorite times of year for so many different reasons. I always get the feeling like I should be out buying pencils and getting in as many bike rides as I can before the snow. I love going out and feeling the chill in the air, going into a shop and seeing the first x-mas decorations and buying new scarves and mittens. Some may think mittens are for kids but anyone who grew up in a cold country knows mitts are where it’s at.

Yesterday when I was sweeping the floor I noticed I was humming christmas carols. I’m not sure what brought it on but it’s happened a few times over the last week or so when I was doing my housework. It’s October now, only 2.5 months until I get to put up my x-mas tree, which is one of my favorite activities in the world. We use a fake tree of course, because a real tree would be a pain to lug up three flights of stairs. Or rather, a big pain to take back down when the needles are falling off and stuff. Also, my cats seem to have a strange urge to climb real trees, but not fake ones. I think I might get a slightly bigger tree this year, a little higher and fuller than the one we have now.

Went to see Pride and Prejudice on Thursday with a friend from class. We spent the day in town shopping and having lunch and decided to take the chance to see this “chick flick” that both our husband’s grumbled about not wanting to go to. I’m glad I did because I’m pretty sure Xander would have hated it and she agreed that her husband probably would as well. I loved it though, it was sooo romantic, every bit as good as the book I think. I read it a few years ago and loved the story so much that I had to see the movie when it came out. I haven’t seen the older movies but I think I might try to rent them, although it’s doubtful I’ll find them here in NL.

The death of my “grandfather” seemed to go by pretty uneventfully. They did put my father and I in the obituary and the way it was printed made it sound like his current wife was my grandmother, which I thought was ridiculous. I learned more about him from that small write-up than I did in the past 30 years. He had a ton of brothers and sisters, most of whom are already dead. He has only two sisters still alive and they don’t live in Cape Breton anymore. The most interesting part was that he didn’t have any other children with his current wife. He had only one child in the entire world and couldn’t take the time … how pathetic that his family, which is basically just his wife, felt the need to use us to bulk up the summary of his empty life. I think they should have added that the only thing my father ever got from him was diabetes.

Well, my burn of Four Brothers just finished. I’ll be spending the next 109 minutes drooling over Mark Wahlberg, yum.