Mmmmm, what a lovely month October has been. This time of year is just delicious, literally. I can’t get enough of the apples or the pumpkins or the spices. And orange! I just want to be surrounded by deep, lovely oranges in leaves and sweaters and pumpkins waiting to be carved. What a great month.
October was ushered in with our third wedding anniversary (!), filled with visitors and apple picking and final trips to the farmer’s market and dance shows, and will be ushered out in style as we look towards November (and no, I’m not talking about the stylish costume I’ll be wearing tonight to my teen girl’s dance group, although it is pretty special all on it’s own).
On Wednesday, Paul and I will pack our lives into two backpack suitcases for 2 ½ weeks (alas, much easier for P than for me…), hop on a bus to O’Hare, and then start a long series of flights that will land us, 36 hours later, in the warm hugs of our dear friends in Bali, Indonesia. We’ve been awaiting this adventure for so long and now, boom, here we are (and oh my how not ready are we, you don’t even want to know!). We are leaving long away messages at work and putting our lives on hold in the anticipation of surfing, Balinese dance classes, gamelan lessons, dance therapy with my dance therapist kindred spirit, the Malaysian jungle, and oh so much more. And then, all too soon I am sure, we’ll cry a long good-bye, leave the 86 degree days, take in many more planes and land back in the sweet Midwest, where we will most likely, in exchange, be taking in some November snow.
But until Wednesday, it’s just October in Wisconsin. Work to be done, leaves to rake, preparations to be made. From the usual autumnal festivities to long planned dreams taking wing, here’s wishing you sweet, pumpkin spice filled, remaining days of fall.
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