Late Summer

By the end of August,  I start to feel like it must be fall.  The air gets a bit nippy, the grain field turn golden and the kids go back to school.  It is really only late summer.

Late summer in south eastern Idaho means cool evenings and mornings; and heat that feels intense in the day.  It is when the zucchini grow out of control in the garden.  We finally get to savor tomatoes, cucumbers, and corn.  The beginning of September brings the last warm weekend holiday - Labor day.  It also brings the Idaho State Fair.

True fall begins September 23.  With that comes lots of exciting things.  I love potato harvest, LDS women's conference, and the LDS General Conference.  Then, it gets cold, hot, cold - like a perimenopausal woman!

Halloween is usually cold, windy, or snowing.  Sometimes it is warm.  I really dislike Halloween in Idaho.

From here on out, I just pray it will snow.  The brown fields are depressing!

So, I will take this late summer and savor it.

Things I want to do

1.  Help build a Habitat for Humanity house in Mexico
2.  Build a modern style house for me.  :)
3.  Live on the beach for 3 months
4.  Go to Germany/Holland - family history
5.  Go to Denmark
6.  Build a house in Idaho Falls over by the temple
7.  Remodel a house in Idaho Falls over by the temple
8.  Go to the East coast of Canada - PEI
9.  Write a book - children's? poems?