Mayfly

I love playing with film; this roll was much cheaper than the summer one, so I wasn't nearly as stingy. There were some pleasant surprises and some not so, but I was still happy. When I'm looking through a stack of photos, I often find myself automatically grouping the pictures by color or composition, sort of in the same way I sometimes find myself unconsciously counting stairs as I go up a long flight. What does that say about me and my brain? I'm a little ocd? Probably.

Our weekend was full and fun, although I did have a cold. (It's already much better.) We had quick house guests, and the kids had two separate sleep-overs. It's wonderful to start the week with a clean house. This week feels slower and easier already. As I was pondering what to make for dinner tonight, my mom called and invited us for chicken and noodles. Score. I'm going to offer up an apple crisp. I think tomorrow I'll make pear butter. I made it a few years ago and it was really yummy. I need to hunt up that recipe.

I hope you've got some good stuff in store this week too. Happy Monday!

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Hello. Hello from Kansas City on the evening of the first day of fall where it still feels like summer. I'm just going to pretend I don't notice and enjoy what the season has to offer. Meanwhile maybe fall will sneak up on me and I won't even realize I'm not faking it any more. That's the last you'll hear of it from me. : )

We picked apples at Red Barn Farm recently with good friends and it was such a nice day. We came back here for a dinner of chili dogs and fruit and cold beers and a cookie cake and a fire outside. I'm glad I took film photographs that day. The graininess and that little something that makes film so timeless- they are making the memory even sweeter.

Well, good night and have a good day tomorrow!

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Tomorrow is the first day of Fall? Are we sure about that? I love this time of year, but I am not feeling it. Everything seems to be going according to schedule: the kids are settled into school (first quarter progress reports are in), we picked apples (in shorts and t-shirts), they've decided what they want to be for Halloween (a soldier and Dorothy), there are pumpkins and gourds covering the grocery stores' front sidewalks. I get it. I know what the calendar says.

But the weather is telling me something completely different. It's 90 degrees and humid. N asked to go to the pool yesterday. I've only worn jeans once or twice. After walking the dog this morning, you could have wrung me out. I turned the a/c back on the other day for Pete's sake! What I'd like to be doing is making soup and baking cinnamon bread- feeling that tug back into the kitchen. There are pears for pear butter. There are comforters ready for swapping out. I want to cheer for my little soccer players on a cool Saturday morning. Grab a sweater for a walk around the park in the evening.

I'm in no hurry for Winter. No sir. But Fall is still coming, right? We won't skip over it all together, will we?!

Maybe I should just play dumb and start getting things ready anyway. It'll be hard, though.

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Delicious cookies. The other day a cookie popped into my head- a salty-chocolaty-oatmeal cookie to be exact. Chocolate, you see, isn't a headache safe food, but I had a strong hankering.

So I went hunting on the internet for a recipe, and I quickly bumped into this one. Even with my very lowbrow substitution of white chocolate chips, they are fabulous. Plus the chips' total lack of resemblance to actual chocolate makes them headache safe!

And judging by the comments at her post, if you get all classy and use better white chocolate, they might blow the socks clean off your feet.

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