There is a Season...

Summer's Last Hurrah!
















"To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under Heaven."

We have all heard that song by Pete Seeger from the '50s. It's very apropos now that summer is ending, and fall is just officially twelve days away. Living on the Lake, though, the words take on a different meaning for me. When Labor Day comes and goes, family members and friends take out their boats and pontoons, winterize and store them. The boats hibernate in garages through the winter and spring until next boating season when they all come to life once again. And with this hibernation comes a let-down of sorts. Fewer and fewer friends around, less frequent visits by sons and grandkids, fewer gatherings around the old campfires... The list could go on and on. But with fall comes some good things as well. One has the urge to have a new beginning of sorts. (Take our living room makeover project!) A "nesting" feeling overcomes me, and I think thoughts of being draped in a warm fuzzy blanket, cuddling on the couch with a good novel. Sipping hot chocolate or coffee. Smelling a pot of chili cooking on the stove. Football Sundays! Watching a gentle rain. Listening to its pitter-patter on our porch roof. Windows, opened wide with the AC off. Life in the fall is very different than during the hectic days of summer. The change is welcomed though. How humdrum life would be with every day simply repeating itself...