Comments | charlottesmtms: *twiddling thumbs*

charlottesmtms

twiddling thumbs

Sep 29, 2002 15:48

Just puttering about, waiting for a third cornish hen to defrost (due to a last-minute addition to dinner), and prepping everything else (which would be within the last 20 min, before serving): some nice soft ranch rolls, which will be popped into the oven, after the hens come out, the stuffing is ready to throw together, and the green beans need ( Read more... )

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dasubergeek September 29 2002, 21:59:19 UTC

I love fall. One of the things that makes me most homesick for New Jersey (and also the woodsy corner of Iowa that was my home for so long) is the first really cold breeze, in October or usually November, on a day when the skies are overcast, remote and grey.

That wind, kicking up from the hills with the harbinger of snow to come, enough to make the passersby hunch a little more closely into their coats, enough to speed the steps of the itinerant, enough to wake the final brown leaves from their secure positions on the mostly-bare trees. The entrance to a warm home with the smell of braising meat and root vegetables, of cooking squash and winter spices - nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, cloves - warmed-up apple cider on the stove and a soft blanket on a cushiony couch.

Autumn is viewed by so many as death and desolation. It takes a certain mindset to look past the brittle brownness, the dead grass and the chill wind and see the promise lying in it.

I miss it. We don't have so many days like that here.

Ah, Fall .... charlottesmtms September 29 2002, 22:30:19 UTC

It was SO HARD to fight the urge to go into short-term debt, and go fly somewhere cold, for a w/e, and walk about and watch the leaves turn ...

At least it's cooling down, here :-)

rikki5050 September 30 2002, 06:58:37 UTC

It sounds like it was the perfect California Fall day.
How very lucky for your dinner party.
Thanks for the description...it makes homesickness more clear, LOL.
I hope you had a wonderful dinner...it sure SOUNDED wonderful!

Actually ... charlottesmtms October 1 2002, 08:57:23 UTC

The PERFECT fall day would be up in Northern CA ... at least the leaves change up there. There is one treet here (in Burbank, on Alameda and Mariposa srteets) that actually changes colors .... well, okay, maybe two or three, up by where I work. It's taken quite a while for me to get anything out of fall/winter/spring, here.

But I'll take it, where I can get it, sister!

*hugs*

Georgia in the Fall rikki5050 October 1 2002, 09:51:57 UTC

Georgia is so beautiful in the fall. The fall colors of my office parking lot was the key selling to Nancie when she decided to move here. I took a bunch of fall pictures and emailed them to her one day to show off how cool it was here and the very next day she said she her mind was made up and she would be moving here by the end of the year....sure enough, she did ( ... )

Re: Georgia in the Fall rikki5050 October 1 2002, 09:56:09 UTC

After making my comment I re-read your original post and I feel I didnt' do justice to California either with my last comment. I must admit one thing...you just can't find that California Breeze ANYWHERE on the east coast. There's something about the smell of the breeze coming in from the west that doesn't exist east ofthe Rockies. Here, the only breeze coming in from the west smells like the farms of the midwest and the east coast breeze doesn't reach this far inland...it's sad really....
Just the picture you painted in my head of the wind chimes and the breeze and the wonderfully sunny day with mild temperature....*le Sigh*
California has a good fall too....without all the color.