With a fine picture of a bowdark ball (bois d'arc or Osage orange, for you non-Texans) and a beautiful vase made from the wood of the bowdark tree, Mary Beth poses the pre-autumnal question:
For this Friday's Five, share with us five transformations that the coming fall will bring your way.
1. Choir break is over, and we are gearing up for fall. Some of our Advent/Christmas music is already in our folders! It will be here before you know it....
2. The long-awaited temperature change. Except for the ragweed, I love October in southeast Texas. I know summer is finally over when I feel that first hint of morning coolness, even though the temperature may still be up in the 80's in the afternoon.
3. On fall evenings, I finally get to wear my sweaters! Sweater season is so brief here, and all through fall and winter I have to resist the temptation to buy more.
4. The Scientist and a friend of ours will be teaching a new Sunday school class, Presbyterian 101. I'll help and sub as needed.
5. This is one I hope will happen this fall. I'm waiting to hear whether the agency where I work three days a week will have the funding to take me on for another day. If I can do that, I'll be that much closer to being able to close my practice. An unbloggable combination of managed care woes and frustrating office politics is deepening my desire to move on.
Bonus: Give us your favorite activity that is made possible by the arrival of fall.
Doing anything outdoors without being "wringing wet" within ten minutes! Fall (again, except for the ragweed) makes yard work, picnics, and hikes much more pleasant.
8 comments:
I love your Five! Yes, sweater season is waaaay too short in most parts of Texas!
Praying that #5 happens for you.
That's one advantage of the North, I guess. We have a really LONG sweater season. Shorts season is short here. (That's appropriate, I guess.)
Saying a prayer about that extra day.
I'm in on the extra day for you! Would you be able to transfer the patients who you need to stay with you for a bit?
Wish I could hear your choir.
Hope that works out for the extra day. Less bureacracy, I'm all about that.
Yes, one has to be very selective about sweaterage, no?
PG, I stopped doing therapy several years ago, and only do testing. I make that very clear before people ever come in. Once I evaluate someone, if they need therapy, I refer them to someone else. So fortunately, there's not really an issue about transferring people who need to stay in treatment, etc.
today we had one of those cool mornings, high in the low 80's days. May they reach you soon. In fact we had nearly a week of them. It was great for gardening at the school.
I'm not sure I believe we will ever have days where I won't be "wringing wet" within ten minutes.
Hot, humid and overwhelming here...
We've had a few cool mornings, but the days are pretty warm still. Looking forward to fall!
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