Fall

It's fall here, finally. I woke this morning and it was cold. In going to shut the air conditioner off realized the temperature in the room was ten degrees lower than it would have needed to be on anyhow.

I pulled a shirt over my head and slid back into bed, thinking it's time that I go and buy blankets. I'll be having company over and the long New Orleans summer has given me the idea that it would never end, so i just haven't gone to get anything heavy enough to keep warm, yet. Now though, i'll have to.

I also realized that in the divorce and all the moves, i've lost my cold weather clothing. I have a light jacket and a heavy coat, but everything else is gone. I'll have to collect new things, piece by piece, along with new blankets.

It's the sort of cool weather that makes you want to drink hot tea, stop for warm coffee, eat foods that are heavier than your can stomach during the hot summer days.

It's the sort of weather that inspires you to want to stay in bed, wrapped around someone for just a little longer in the morning, you know; keeping each other warm...