Figured I should include a fall photo of our little Ash tree while I still have the opportunity. The others around us have been stricken with the dreaded little bugs and I am afraid that it is just a matter of time until we will have to say goodbye to ours, too. For now, she looks fine and very pretty on this overcast day. Important to appreciate these things while you can.
It was a beautiful morning here with bright sunny skies, etc., but now it seems to be changing a bit...I can hear the wind starting to howl down the chimney a little, the skies are clouding over, the temperature seems to be dropping, and I am ushering in the rest of my herb pots hoping that I can salvage enough yet for the season to last through the holidays. There is word of snow flurrying about this evening...definitely not ready for that yet.
Mark's new redo of the network situation (and I still don't understand what it completely involves, other than I know it will allow us to watch the Big Ten games here in our family room instead of hiking up to Majors Sports Pub to watch them there, a big plus in my mind, winter being what it is and all) is set for Friday and he informs me that I "will be able to tape TV shows like one would with TiVo" (which is probably some sort of cousin to Blu-Ray...just kidding around). This, I am thinking is not a particular selling point to me as I don't have any "shows" to tape. I am not much into the TV watching world that I would have a regular type show to tape, etc. HOWEVER, I am thinking today that maybe I do have a show...or I will have if I can figure out how to tape it. And, this will come as no surprise to anyone who knows me well...I can TAPE THE MARTHA STEWART SHOW and watch it. Okay, now I have a show! Now all the teasing about me being a "Martha Wanna Be" (minus the crafts, of course, as I am not particularly good at most of those, but who knows...I have more free time now, who knows where this could take me in the future) can be stepped up even more. BTW, today on her website, her tip for the day was to go to the orchard and pick apples and make a pie, etc., so I am feeling really good because I did that yesterday! Okay, I didn't actually pick the apples as the orchard already had nicely bagged apples right there waiting for me...but the apples did come straight from Stuckey's Orchard and since Mark was such a sweetie and picked up Matt from swimming after work so that I could have a shift relief and not have to fight through rush hour traffic, and it is important to reward such sweetness with something sweet to show you really really appreciate these kinds of gestures, I did make him his favorite pie with said apples, and now I am thinking that maybe Martha is copying ideas from me to use on her website the next day. Okay, silliness aside, I am thinking that I will need to figure out this TiVo-type deal so that I can tape Martha and finally be able to say, "Of course, I do...I have a show that I tape and watch!" And, as Martha would say, "It's a Good Thing!"