I hope you enjoyed the heck out of it.
The "it" to which I'm referring was, of course, the amazing weekend we had, at least weather-wise, with temperatures actually hitting the mid 80s on both Saturday and Sunday. For early October, weather like this is not common; for it to fall on a weekend was a bonus, and, like I said, I hope you enjoyed the heck out of it.
Because I know I sure did.
I tried to wring almost every single second I could out of it while playing outside because, of course, I know this was a gift from Mother Nature. This time of the year our weather should be like it is today--chilly, cloudy, perhaps even slightly wet. Odds are slim that it will happen again this year; in fact, odds are slim that it'll happen any time before, say, next June. And that's why I hope you took advantage of it.
Because for the next seven months, we probably won't see anything like it again.
Am I ready for those next seven months? I don't think so, but then wherever we have what I know will be our last few nice days of “summer” I'm never ready for what follows. And I don't think it's because of the cold or the snow, although I'm sure they do play a part in it. Instead, the thing that I do not look forward to is the unrelenting bleakness of it all...the gray skies, the short days, and the conditions that keep you huddled inside of your apartment for weeks on end instead of playing gleefully outside.
THAT'S what I don't like about winter. And that's what I'll miss after a weekend like the one we just had.
Hopefully, my batteries are charged enough to get through the next seven long winter months. Hopefully, you have enough in reserve to do the exact same thing. And that's why a weekend like the one we just experienced--a bonus taste of summer in October--was so important.
Or, at least, it was to me.
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| One of the many things I saw while out playing on Saturday. |
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