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The humidity broke sometime between noon and 6pm yesterday, and this morning is just about as perfect as a September morning can get: clear, cool, and still comfortable in short sleeves. I love how the world feels on these mornings: fresh and bursting with life. As amber_phoenix noted yesterday, the tomato faucet in our yard is ON. So is the sunflower faucet, ( Read more... )

We're in that shoulder season now, where summer isn't totally over, but we're into late summer and early fall. Yesterday, walking with eestiplika, we smelled wood smoke and felt the cool in the air despite the sun, but we also admired squash blossoms. Today, early fall is full-on, and tonight, especially, the air is crisp and almost tastes of apple ( Read more... )

A confluence of events has inspired me to lug one of the languishing air conditioners out of our basement and into our living room. It's been fucking hot, and exhausting, and, ok, fine, that happens every year, but with today expected to be over 102, and being a little worried about our cat in that heat, and having social plans this weekend where a ( Read more... )

Although you can't see it, now that I'm back from California (and Southern California specifically), my feet have sandal tan lines. I love sandal tan lines.