FOOTBALL: College or pro, I love it all. Especially this year with my CATS being 5 - 0! Also, what's football with tailgating? Anytime I can have an excuse to eat 8 bratwursts in a single sitting is a good thing.
KEENELAND: This weekend marks the opening of the Fall Meet at the best horse tack in the world. (Fun Fact: Did you know that Keeneland has been noted as having the most beautiful parking lot in the world?) Call me a sinner, but there isn't anything quite like the feeling of laying $2 down on a pony and watching that baby come in to win!
TURTLENECKS: OK, when I was in high school, L.L. Bean turtleneck sweaters were all the rage. However, the turtlenecks have gone the way of the cassette tape and other great inventions. It's replacement has become hoodies and corduroy pants I guess...but my point is that Fall is the time of year to pull out the cool weather clothes from storage and to start sporting those duds you haven't' seen in several months. It's like getting a bunch of new clothes without going shopping.
SEEING YOUR BREATH: The other morning as I was loading up the car, I exhaled and noticed my breath doing that steamy thing that happens when it's cold outside. I was so excited that I ran inside, grabbed my daughter and showed her how to make her breath steam too! She loved doing it so much that now she has been trying to do it in the warm air of the afternoon. Man, kids are really dumb.
MIDNIGHT MADNESS: I think it's called Big Blue Madness now, but to me it's always going to be Midnight Madness. When I attended UK, I went ever year just to get the first glimpse of my beloved Wildcats. But now, I just watch it on TV which in some ways is even better because you don't have to sit next to any of those crazies that have been camping out, without bathing, for two weeks. Is it just me, or is that not the dark side of UK basketball? "Me love me some UK basketball" is a quote I heard one of those nuts say on TV a few years ago and it's now branded in my brain. Unfortunately, I now say it at least 3 -4 times in every UK game.
FALL FESTIVALS: I love Fall Festivals. LOVE THEM! So far this year, I've been to the Burgoo Festival and Oktoberfest at Christ the King with plans to attend another festival this weekend. Maybe Crossroads should start having an Oktoberfest....hmmmmmmm
HALLOWEEN: I love that there is a holiday that allows me to dress up and act like a totally different person for an evening and everyone totally accepts that as normal.
Well, that's just some of the reasons why Fall is such an awesome time of the year. I could go on, but I wonder, what do you love about Fall? Or maybe, you hate it...but that's just ridiculous.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
This Cool Weather Really Warms My Heart
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Fall is my favorite time of year! We live in the country and there is nothing better than waking up on a cool morning with all the windows opening, listening to the birds chirp and taking in all of God's wonderful creations. Other reasons I love fall: camping, football, change of leaves, crisp mornings, more wildlife, new Bible Studies at church, community, etc.
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Well, I grew up in California and there was no fall. There was hot and there was rainy. I love fall! I love the storms and the changing of leaves (I don't think Californians know that leaves change colors). I also love Halloween and harvest festivals and of course all of the delicious dishes made with apples and pears adn pumpkin. And who doesn't love pumpkin spice cappuccino? I also love the fact that the flies and bees and mosquitos start to disappear. What a blessing!
1) graeter's pumpkin ice cream.
2) keeneland fall meet
3) taking kids to recess without needing sunscreen.
I love wearing big hoodies, eating apple crisp, bonfires, and driving down Delong Rd with my wndows down.
Fall has the best colors.
bret, great column!! very entertaining. have to say i love hanging out in the evenings with a firepit. and of course keeneland scores some points as well.
As kid growing up in Florida, fall lasted all of about an afternoon.
Living here for the last four years has made me appreciate the change in seasons.
I love feeling the heat break, wanting to put on a jacket or sweater, seeing the leaves change and smelling the pumpkin and cinnamon scents in the stores and eateries.
Nothing beats a run in the fall. The sound of leaves crunching under my feet. (only if my iPod battery is dead) Perfect!
Fred said eateries.
It seems we have a lot of folks who are loving fall! It is definitely my favorite as well...I love the change in the weather and leaves and the thought that some things must go through some significant change to be made beautiful again.
And then there are gallons of apple cider that will take up permanent residence in my frige, putting up the fall decor (which is just as important as Christmas to me), the fruit basket that is always full of apples (until they make it into the apple crisp), layering clothes, hoodies, wearing long sleeves with a skirt and flip flops, bonfires, smores, college football, wearing a hoodie TO a college football game, the list could go on and on and on for me.
Two of my favorite quotes about fall:
"Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter."
~Carol Bishop Hipps
"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all." ~Stanley Horowitz
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