The weather here last week was warmer than normal - high 90s - and I was starting to wonder if we would see autumn this year before November. I bought pumpkin spice candles, mini-pumpkins and gourds and Halloween candy (mmm, Peanut Butter M&Ms. Yes, I have a problem.) to make it feel more fall-ish, at least inside the house. I tell you, the Halloween candy really helps. Then a few days ago it started raining. Thunderstorms with lightning, to be exact. And that has cooled things down a lot! It's almost like being home in Seattle, except our thunderstorms were always around Thanksgiving and it was significantly colder outside. Still, I'll take what I can get. It was below 60 this morning when I woke up. Below 60! And then it started pouring, with loud thundering boom boom booms (Kate loves thunder, because Mr. Brown makes thunder), and a cool breeze. We stood at the door and watched the rain come down in sheets. Now we have bright blue skies that the TV weatherman tells us won't last, because they will be replaced with more thunderstorms later today. We're even getting the beep beep Severe Weather Alerts on the telly. Sweeeet.
Tim has today off. The military believes Columbus Day to be a good family day, I guess, and I'll take it. Especially since we'll probably only get a 3-day weekend again this year for Christmas. So today we'll work more in the yard, try to get more of Kate's new room set up, and enjoy our day off.
So far this weekend we have:
- attended the Hogtoberfest party at the Lobos on Friday night
- came home to watch the premier of Battlestar Galactica (if you have not yet watched this series, I highly recommend you start. Try the miniseries from Netflix and tell me you aren't hooked after watching it.)
- trimmed the trees and bushes in the frontyard
- burned weeds in the frontyard and backyard
- sat through all 75 painful minutes of Chicken Little, the movie (don't waste your time)
- watched college football games, in which the Huskies had a fabulous game against USC (we almost won), the Beavers lost a close one (?) to WSU, the Wildcats had a bad day against UCLA and Oregon got CREAMED by Cal =D
- took Kate shopping at the BX, where she oohed and aahhed at the balloons (ba-ooons)
- had pumpkin pancakes this morning
Aren't you glad to know all that? Useful information, I say.
3 comments:
2 questions: how do you make pumpkin pancakes and what do you mean, you "burned weeds?" You actually had a fire in your yard?
Pumpkin pancakes:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/3023
I think they are quite tasty, but I like thin/heavy pancakes (these are not fluffy).
Aah, burning weeds. A fun pasttime in AZ. We have a gigantic blow torch with a wand-like handle and you just walk around and burn the crap out of all the weeds growing in your yard. There are a lot in ours, so Tim's spent several hours lately burning. We started a trend - our neighbors now do it too. Much easier than picking the damn things.
Ooooh, I am going to have to try the pancakes and burning the weeds. It sounds like something Ben would surely love doing!
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