The first day that feels like fall

New addition to the drums overhead: deep bongo and tinkling xylophone. Apparently, these are beginning xylophone students, so there's a lot of disconnected plink-plink-plinking. Slightly less annoying than the bass drum you mistake for your heart beating out of control.

No matter. Today is the first day since last Friday that I feel moderately well, and it's officially The First Day That Might Feel Like Fall. As my friend noted last week, the smell of fall hasn't yet arrived, but I'm sure it soon to follow.

Which means it's time for me to shell out some money for a nice chiminea or other type of outdoor fireplace. Let the burning begin! One of my friends is so fond of bonfires that he burns anything when he runs out of firewood--cardboard, old furniture, his children's building blocks. Don't be outraged--the kids are too old for building blocks and they have a whole pre-school's worth of them.

It stormed last night, and it's like the showers scrubbed the air clean the light today is autumnal--warm and dry and high definition.

Can you tell I like fall?