Finally!

It finally feels like fall around here.

I love living in California (well, most of the time) but I miss the change of seasons you get on the East coast.  Here, we have rainy season and dry season, otherwise known as rainy season and fire season.

The pumpkins are in the markets, the leaves are turning on the trees, and it is no longer 95 degrees outside.  I'm starting to think of stews, roast chickens, and pumpkin pies.  Oh, we'll still grill when we feel like it - we grill 12 months out of the year around here.  But rather than grilling because we can't stand to heat up the kitchen, we'll grill because we want to.

My younger son said he can't wait to sit and do his homework with a hot cup of tea - ah, the simple pleasures of childhood.  But really, I want to sit and pay the bills, or read a book, with a hot cup of tea, too.

October is my favorite month.