Saturday, September 02, 2006

Signs of Fall

You know fall is coming when:

1. You're outside at 4:30 and think, "The light is changing" (look here to see what I mean).
2. School buses, everywhere!
3. You get excited because you can switch from the summer purse to the new fall one!
4. There are stupid drivers suddenly all over Fitchburg: Fitchburg State classes begin next week.
5. Pumpkin Spice Lattes
6. You sign a pre-buy contract with your heating oil company to lock in a lower rate.
7. There is no need to run the AC at night (at least here in Mass.), but the heat hasn't come on yet.
8. You think it's a little cool out and put on a jacket.
9. Ice cream stands begin to close for the season.
10. Fresh apples appear in the grocery store.
11. You have to start buying long sleeve PJ's for your baby.
12. Hurricanes Football !!!
13. Dolphins Football !!!
14. Pennant fever (except not here in Boston this year)
15. The leaves are changing on a tree on your street.
16. You're with your husband at Home Depot pricing snowblowers.
17. The air smells really crisp and clean.
18. Gardens all around have mums growing in them.

I tried to come up with 20, but I failed...if anyone thinks of more, add them in the comments section and I'll stick them on the list (with credits of course!)

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo jealous!

Vannah said...

Lana nearly wet her pants when she went to Starbucks and they had pumpkin spice lattes again. I had one myself this weekend!

Audrey's Mama said...

19)School supplies mixed with the Halloween candy aisle in Walgreen's.

By the way, the pumpkin spice latte was FREE because the new Starbucks about a mile from my house was having technical difficulties on opening day. :)

Anonymous said...

20. Hurricane season gets into full swing (hiss! boo!!!)

21. It starts to be cool enough (in Florida) so you can plant flowers that won't crisp up and die on you in 2 days time (though it's not quite cool enough just yet!!).

Dorothy said...

Oh, I totally think Pumpkin Spice Lattes coud've been 19 and 20...so good. A little redundant but hey, so good!
The weather description makes me so jealous!!!
love ya'll...it's still in the nineties down here

Anonymous said...

oo, 22) you can get in the car without burning your hands on the steering wheel!! (oh, i can't wait for "fall"...such as it is down here)

Snowflake said...

Not to make any tooooo jealous, but I went into Starbucks to study last week, and I was showered with free samples of pumpkin spice lattes while I was in there...somehow, it made the studying so much more pleasant.

23)You can't fall asleep at night because you are tormented by terrible officiating calls

24)religiously checking the live scoring on your fantasy football league and just double checking that someone didn't get hurt by a flying plastic beer bottle udring warm-ups and will suddenly not play...or will they

25) It's time to pack away that bright sunny toe nail polish color and bring out those warm rich fall shades! YAY! New polish!