Week 34. And September. It’s as though summer never happened. What did happen to it? What was I doing? Did I fall asleep?
It’s been a crazy few weeks and honestly right now I’m suffering from complete overwhelm and exhaustion. This coming weekend is my last weekend off until Christmas, forgive me if I sleep for most of it! Rather than fixate on that big picture, let’s look at some of the happy little things.
* One red tomato. For some reason (maybe the hot June and July and wet August) everyone’s tomatoes are huge but green. I feel a small sense of achievement that one of our has gone red. I don’t hold out a lot of hope for the other tomatoes and see vats of green tomato chutney and salsa verdi in my future.
* This card, bought for me by Himself to celebrate you know what. Seriously this sums me up perfectly. The little person even kind of looks like me.
* Hot air balloons. On these late summer evenings there have been a lot of balloons above the fields at the back of our house. They look so majestic just hanging there defying gravity. Himself wants to go on a trip in one. I’m not so sure. To me they seem to be one of those things that only looks good from a distance. Quite a big distance. Anyone who has read the first few pages of Ian McEwan’s “Enduring Love” will know what I mean.
* Green tea. I really used to hate this stuff but either my taste buds have changed or green tea making has come on in leaps and bounds as I love it now. Problem is I didn’t realise it has caffeine in it until it was too late. 
* Cake. If in doubt eat cake! 
Tell me what little things you love today!
We are having the same problem in Oregon – huge green tomatoes that won’t go red! I tried starving them of water, and trimming extraneous branches, which got TWO tomatoes PINK! Yay! The rest, I also have no hope for, and will try to figure out a way to use them.
We had freezing temps until late June, and then freezes started again last week. Our weather reports say it’ll be in the 60’s and 70’s for the most part this month…no more summer. We had six weeks and now it’s gone.
Found you via your comment on Gala’s TILT.
Our tastebuds change something like every five or ten years, so it’s likely that they have. Or, if you’re anything like me, you’ve trained yourself to like something new!
Highlights from my own TILT: Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay, scheming and daydreaming, and looking in others’ desk drawers. Love!
I love that today is my last day of work before a four-day weekend! Hopefully the hurricane spinning nearby will miss us.
Also, I haven’t read “Enduring Love,” but I did see the movie and am now a little freaked out by hot-air balloons, so I feel you on that one.