It's the most wonderful time of the year...

No, not Christmas! Every year I find myself thinking of how wonderful fall is. This has been one of the rainiest and cloudiest and coolest Octobers on record in Minnesota, and I couldn't be happier! I think it's because I'm a child of the fall. Knowing my birthday is around the corner maybe helps in enjoying the season.

I was driving home last night and loved, loved, loved seeing the farmers in the fields with their tractors and big lights. There's something so comforting in that. Working around the clock to get the harvest in before the big rain. It totally takes me back to growing up in the country, being scared of the dark, thinking that a scary face was going to show up in my window any moment, but hearing and seeing Uncle Ray out in the field, knowing he was out there, that he would see something scary before I would and get a chance to take care of it before it got to me. I can't tell you how many nights I was lulled to sleep by the sound of farm machinery.