THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER

I always enjoy celebrating the beginning of September.  September is my favorite month of the year.  It's part summer and part autumn, my two favorite seasons.  It is when kids go back to school and reminds me of new beginnings.  What a great time of year.

That morning I was up before the sun.  I watched it come up and just imagined all the wonderful hours before me and wondered just what would come about.

I took it easy because I was so tired.  But by 11:15 I was on my way to pick up Donna.  We were going to meet with Carol for lunch at Chick-Fil-A.

Carol was there when we showed up.  We had such a nice lunch just talking and laughing together.  At one point when we were almost finished the manager came over to us and asked how everything was.  We said it was good.  He then asked if he could remove our trays for us, refilled our drinks, and told us to just sit there as long as we wanted and talk.  We were obviously enjoying ourselves.  How nice!

In the afternoon I went and picked up Debbie and we headed for Cottman Beverages.  I had seen on facebook that they were hosting the Budweiser Clydesdale horses and we wanted to see them.  Actually it was just one horse named Ricco.  What a wonderful time!  I am going to do another post later this week about this.  It was so much fun seeing him.

Tonight Joe and I had our traditional September 1 dinner of spare ribs.  I made some corn on the cob and tri-colored rotini to go with it.  So good.

For dessert we had an apple pie that our neighbor made us.  Jill is such a sweet girl.  We helped her out of a mess the other day and she made us a pie to thank us.  I was so surprised.  It was good too.

It was a full day, but a good one.  I can tell this is going to be a good September.

WELCOME SEPTEMBER

CLOSING OUT AUGUST

The year, and this month in particular, has flown by.  The biggest thing that happened in August was the birth of little Hadley Jeanne who is the sweetheart of her entire family.  

I met my friends Donna and Carol for lunch at East Coast Wings and Grill.  We had a great time.  Today we are going to Chick-Fil-A for lunch.  It's so nice we can get together once a month.

Joe has spent a lot of time at the V.A. Hospital with various ailments.  Poor guy.  He's down with an upper respiratory infection today.  I hope he's OK for our anniversary in two weeks.

I've been sick too.  Those URI's really can knock you for a loop.  So glad it's over now.  And now it's the torn tendon in my arm.  Still not good, but getting there.

And then there was the eclipse.  I have always been fascinated with astronomy so this was wonderful to me.

I started a new series on the blog too of photos from my friend, Sarah.  She's so good and very appreciative that people like her work since she is an amateur. 

Here's the August view of my temperature afghan.  Over half done now.  You can see all the pink (80*F days) and red (90*F days) but now there is also some yellow (70*F) and one light green (60*F).  I guess this shows the cooling of the seasons.  I'm sure there's still a lot of pink days to go, though.  It doesn't really get cool until the middle to end of October.

My Breathtaking Views calendar is showing the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO.  I've always wanted to see this in person.  Maybe someday.

That's it for this month.  Hello, September!