Month: September 2013

  For thirteen years I’ve driven a car of advancing age. Last month I upgraded from an ’88 Corolla to an ’07. It’s made a dramatic difference in my life. Suddenly I’m willing to take my daughter to her friend’s house. I’m even willing to pick her up. I’m doing that park-at-the-far-end-of-the-parking-lot-and-walk thing. And I’m getting lost. Not very lost, sadly. I still have those darn responsibilities. So maybe it takes me ten minutes longer than usual to get home from work. And maybe I’ve started mapping out the less-trafficked streets around me so I can do more driving and less stopping. I still don’t wander off for very long. One day soon, though…

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Some time ago, I blogged about my love of languages and how I was learning Esperanto, Latin, Irish Gaelic, and Scottish Gaelic.  And how I was refreshing myself on French. Then my eye problems started and I was focused on what little writing I could do.  The language learning went by the wayside.

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Ah, autumn. It’s lurking just around the corner, and I can’t wait. I’m done with summer’s heat. I’m an autumn girl all the way around. Maybe it’s because I was born in autumn, but I love how it’s not too cold and not too hot. I love how the trees change. I love curling up with a mug of cocoa and a good book under a blanket. Doesn’t it always seem like it just arrives overnight? One day it’s 95 degrees, and then, the next, it’s 70 and all the trees have gone up in brilliant golds and reds.

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I’m nearing the end of my first year of vegetable gardening. After starting from zero and learning a lot while slogging through the middle of summer, I’m finally seeing rewards. My household has had a steady (but not overwhelming) supply of zucchini for the last month. Zucchini grow fast, did you know? We picked the first one a month earlier than we were expecting after last year’s tomato crop. And we could have picked it even earlier, only we didn’t notice it. They’re good at hiding. By the time we realized we had one, it was thicker than a baseball bat. Whoops!

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