Life is full of simple gifts, like today's, of a dental appointment, on a sunny day.
My teeth may hurt, but who cares. I am home, it is warm, there is a breeze blowing through my door at the end of October. Indian Summer for sure. It comes every year, but it always seems to surprise. We have gone to fall mode. The school year is in full swing, and the temperatures for the most part are dropping. We are beginning to prepare for the cold. Still, nature, usually, in her own unusually predictable way, sends us one last treat before her big trick of winter. The cold winds may blow soon, the snow will fly, but for now I will drink in this last blast of summmer sun.

Speaking of Indian Summer, anyone else remember this old movie? Kind of "The Big Chill" for the geeky people who were obsessed with summer camp while growing up? Ummm, yeah, looked it up on IMDB today, and this sentence of the synopsis hit me...

"A group of childhood friends, now in their thirties, reunite at Camp Tamakwa."

HA! One of those reminders that my 30's are behind me for sure. Of course they are behind the stars from the movie as well, Elizabeth Perkins and Diane Lane being two, and they look better and better every year. Bill Paxton? Well, he has improved from his role in Weird Science for sure, but his role in Big Love with all those Mormon wives...jury's still out. Yep, time soldiers on for all of us, but for the moment, I think I will go out and enjoy the Indian Summer on my deck...and prematurely age my skin just a LITTLE more in the autumnal sun...ya only live once!