As we drove to and from Costco this morning, the trees were absolutely shedding leaves in a forceful, beautiful way. Mr S-P said what I had been thinking, that we suddenly went from late summer to autumn, and it was in full swing. Several times we passed through thick showers of golden leaves, and I felt a burst of joy in each one. Once home, I watched as a cold front passed through, sending curtains of leaves sideways over my front garden. I don't care how basic it makes me sound. I live for these few weeks of autumn, and I never get tired of it. Winter starts next week, sort of, so I must enjoy it while I can. This evening's forecast revision moved in favor of rain and snow leading up to Halloween.
While I was trying to make progress in the kitchen, I started eyeing a bag of apples I bought last week. As snacking apples, they were incredibly disappointing. So to try to use them up, I decided to bake them. It's a great time of year for apple pie. Before I knew it I was putting together dinner for the house, with my grandma's beef-tomato-okra casserole (I wish I had a name for it) as a main course. I hadn't planned on cooking much at all, but suddenly it felt so good to do. I hope this signals an upturn in my attitude too.
Housemate 2 and I watched another couple episodes of Agatha All Along tonight. Rewatching it on the big TV downstairs is helping me catch a lot of things I didn't notice before, especially for episodes I watched on the shattered iPad. I wish I had energy to keep going and get up to date on the big screen. I also want to find images of all of the costumes online somewhere. Not just stills from the show, but closeups of the stitching and fabrics. It has been thirty years since I had a costume design company, but that doesn't mean I don't really geek out on this stuff.
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