…preventing this from being a perfect Saturday is the fact that it’s Thursday. That said, lounging about all day in jeans and a hoodie, reading two and a half entire books, and finishing the day with salmon and mashed potatoes for dinner is basically nothing but win.
Tag: fall
Okay so we’ve gotta fight now I guess.
Here are the rules of Raking Leaves. Well, the Rule of Raking Leaves, because there’s really only the one rule: you are responsible for the leaves in your yard, period. The location of the tree does not matter, because leaves blow. We raked leaves last Saturday. There were leaves in my yard from oak trees, and I don’t even know where the nearest oak tree is. Nevertheless, because I am a Good Neighbor, and because the two trees in the front yard I share with my immediate neighbor (in the sense that they but up against each other with no fence as a divider; it’s one big chunk of grass) are both in my lawn, I did my best to blow as many of “his” leaves as I could into our pile. The majority of them fell off of my tree. I use an electric leaf blower, and if you had looked right after we did it you could pretty neatly delineate exactly how far my cord let me get into his yard, because those areas were bare of leaves.
My neighbor’s wife and son are outside right now, blowing leaves. They (or, rather, she, because their son is in a different part of the yard) are blowing the leaves not to the foot of the lawn, where the city can pick them up, but into my yard. Where the wind is just gonna blow them right the fuck back into their lawn. And I’m, like, right here, in my living room, and I can see her doing it, because the tree is right outside my living room window. Plus the city came by and sucked up leaves today, so they won’t be here for at least a week and this is a pointless endeavor right now anyway because there are literally probably still a million leaves on that tree that haven’t fallen yet.
I do not understand people.
In which it’s all good
It was an excessively pleasant day today, with October-perfect weather. We went out and bought pumpkins (the boy picked all three of them out) and the boy is so enamored with his personal pumpkin that he insisted on it staying in his bedroom with him tonight. We got the yard raked and I enjoyed it (it is so rare as to border on impossible for me to enjoy doing yard work) and acquired most of the rest of his Halloween costume. We also figured out what I was doing about my Halloween costume, which I didn’t actually realize I was wearing until the idea popped into my head.
And now we’re gonna watch the season premiere of Constantine. So, yeah, good day.
(Not “good blog post,” I admit that. I’ll try and be interesting tomorrow.)
Burning bush
I love these.
Autumn
I love this time of year.
Why not, one more
Click for massive embiggenation.
The weather has been, with the exception of a brief rain squall yesterday afternoon, absolutely perfect for the last couple of days. Fall is my favorite season and has been for a long time; clear, cloudless sixty-two degree days are the reason why. It’s going to be warmer for the rest of the week– mostly upper seventies– but there’s no real chance of rain for several days so it ought to be really pretty around here for a while.
A very brief review of the iPhone 6: it is, once again, too damn slippery, meaning that I had no choice but to put it in a case. I don’t like phone cases, particularly on phones that clearly have had some effort put into their design, although Apple’s official case (I got the red one) is cut out at the bottom so that you can see some of the gold. It ends up having a sort of Iron Man colors effect, which I kind of like. Unlocking my phone with my thumbprint is fantastic. (Yes, it’s hackable, if a thief is very patient and willing to go through the 25 steps necessary to steal and transfer my thumbprint. Somehow I’m not worried.)
I feel like the glass on the front of the thing is more fun to touch than the glass on my previous phone. I’m aware that that sentence may not seem like it makes any sense. I’m not sure I understand it either. But I like holding this phone more than my last one. And I prefer the larger size, although I deliberately didn’t order the 6 Plus because there are limits to how big the screen of a phone should be. The camera is rather improved over the previous one, as I think you’ve seen already. And it’s fast and the screen is gorgeous and sooner or later Continuity and Apple Pay will start working and blah blah blah phonebrag.
The main disadvantage is this:
My wife took one look at my phone and said “Your phone has whatever face.”
“What?” I said.
“You know, like the emoji,” she said. In other words: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And now I cannot stop seeing that. Every goddamn time I look at the phone. Arrgh.
Autumn
This is about as pretty as the sky ever gets.
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