Out and Indoors

Outdoors: The seasons are shifting.  It's in the air, even though it was as hot as summer today.  While I do not miss the hurricane, I do miss the cool air it brought.  I took these pictures after the storm, when everything was wet and people were out walking around assessing the damage and just finally getting out of the house.

Outdoors: We spent time today gathering up more fallen limbs and sticks and stacking them up for the yard trash collection tomorrow.  I admit that I hauled out some much older logs that have been laying around, ones that fell sometime ago when there was no special yard trash collection to take them away.  I have a lot of trees--I lose count when I count--but more than 20.  This means a lot of falling branches, falling pine cones, falling leaves, and continuous maintenance.  But I love my trees.

Indoors: While I was home for the hurricane days, I did not grade any papers.  I brought them home, but they stayed in my bag.  I don't know what the problem was.  I just couldn't bring myself to look at them. So, last weekend I had to catch up.  Essays are such a mountain for me.  I love working on them when I am with the students, reading and helping them as they go, but when they all get stacked up in front of me--eh!  I'd rather not.

What I did do, was work on finishing up my sweater.  I had to do one sleeve over again because for some reason I thought I could do it while I watched TV.  Ha!  Of course, this thing isn't done yet and it is still all out of shape and wobbly.  But!  It is going to get done.  I can see that now.

Indoors: Today, I made Rosh Hashanah honey cake, even though we really don't celebrate Rosh Hashanah.  It made the house smell like cinnamon and honey and spice--so good! 

Also!  We scooted out to eat Korean food--one of my favorites, especially at this place that brings the hot coals to your table.  So fun and delicious!

We'll see what this next week brings.