Dear October...

Dear October,
     I'm glad you're finally here. It's hard to believe we're already in the 10th month of this busy year, but yes... you have arrived.
     Coming alongside your month is lots of fun and lots of fall:
This month I start basketball. Still 2 weeks away, but quickly approaching. I've been practicing quite a lot, and am really excited about it since I've never played on any sports team before.
     Also in your month I get to go to my first concert since I was 7! I'm really looking forward to that as well... I've been counting down the days!
     What else is coming this season? Christmas albums. All of the ones I've been looking at are released within the next few weeks, and while I have no plans to listen to them this early, it's still nice to know that it's almost that time of year.
     While most October's are supposed to bring cold weather, you have still be giving us plenty of warm weather. Proof? We went swimming today... everyone in my family except me, that is, since I don't think it's right to be swimming in October! Let's hope it gets just a little colder soon maybe? Please?!
     Our house has been looking (and smelling) very wonderful lately. With an apple pie scented candle and lots of leaves for decorations, our house is fit for your season.
     Every October my family goes to a pumpkin patch to pick a pumpkin, and then to carve it... well, sort of. We're supposed to carve it, but it usually ends up rotting out before we can remember, so I've decided that letting pumpkins rot is our new tradition ;) We always do it every year along with many other seasonal traditions... like coloring Easter eggs on the Saturday before Easter, listening to Christmas music on the drive home from Thanksgiving dinner, and caroling the week before Christmas. Maybe this year we'll actually carve our pumpkin...
    In your month, I'm hoping to dig into reading. Once the several books I have reserved at the library arrive, I'm ready to fill my mind with lots of books. That seems like the right thing to do in October ;)
    Well, I think that's what my month looks like. So just some final notes to you, October. Please send cold weather, and please remind us to carve our pumpkin. Have a fantastic month!
          Yours Truly,
          Brooke

   

In Between Seasons

Seriously, whoa. September crept up on me more than ever before. I still had my head stuck in summer... but what's September? School's in September so it's not my summer, but it's not quite fall either since it's still hot outside. So what is it? To me it's a month stuck in between seasons. It comes and goes like it never was there. That's how I see September. So what does this September 1st look like?

 The grass was freshly cut outside... I love the smell of it

 

The sky was still big and blue

Our Bird of Paradise seemed happy

 Then I found these scary huge mushrooms that had apparently been mowed over, and were now invading the edge of the driveway. They're kind of gross.

 There's one plant in our yard, covered in Caterpillars. At least 100 would be my guess, and I'm hoping they'll just turn into butterflies soon, since they've been there for a few weeks already! They've been deciding to cross the driveway several times a day. We should seriously consider putting up signs for caterpillar crossing... one almost got smushed by a basketball the other day... oops...

So that's September in my backyard. 

Have a day full of sunshine,

-Brooke