Sep 02
Umm… Autumn?
The disclaimer: Sorry I haven’t been around much lately. It’s not that I don’t have things to share with the unknown readers out there (or the Russian spambots or the creepy internet stalkers or the google webspiders)… its just that I have been busy at work. And since work is when I write, I haven’t been writing. I haven’t forgotten everyone (imaginary or otherwise) that might be out there in the shadows… 
It’s now September.
So, what does that mean? Well, the kids have returned to school (no, I’m not a home/unschooler) and their extracurricular activities — Tae Kwon Do for BoyChild and Irish Dance for Girl Child (and myself). It should be time for harvest celebrations and the start of the turning inward part of the wheel of the year…
But in a rather ironic twist of fate, “summer” weather seems to FINALLY have arrived in Saskatchewan with the rush towards the schools. All through June, July and August we prayed for nice weather, for a stretch of warm, DRY sunny weather to go out and DO things… and the weather was MISERABLE. There was a day here, a day there, and maybe two days over that way where it wasn’t raining, windy, cloudy, or just MISERABLE this summer. Nope. No summer for you. The few nice days we had were, of course, days when I had to work or the kids were with their father…
And so we were actually looking FORWARD to going back to school this year. In fact, it has been pretty much all that BoyChild and GirlChild have talked about for the last month. Given that it was cold and wet for all but 3 non-consecutive days this “summer” its a reasonable assumption. We didn’t get to the spray park more than once (in June). We didn’t get to the outdoor pools at all. They took swimming lessons with their father, but we didn’t get to go to the pools this summer either. We went on 2 picnics, and we didn’t get to spend very much time playing in parks… the summer just whomped totally.
Of course, the MINUTE they went back to school *BLAM* summer weather.
Wouldn’t you know it? JUST after I bought them both cool weather clothes for school, the temperature climbs into the high 20Cs for THREE STRAIGHT CONSECUTIVE DAYS… and what’s more, its promised that it will be in the 30Cs for the next 2 or 3 days too!
I mean, WTF?
It is time when I have started thinking about knitting the kids each a pair of handmade wool socks! I have been starting to want to bake pies and cookies and make batches of chili’s and stews and other hearty cool weather foods! After the lull in summer when I *SHOULD* have been too warm to want to knit or sew or bake, it is the season of the harvest, of starting to store for the cold winter ahead (and don’t fool yourself… the winter will be COOOLD (we’re talking -40C here people, this is FrozenNowhere!) and likely LONG)… but instead the heat has come and replaced the other autumnal cooling period for another blast at the furnace before we wimper into the subzeros again…
And, because I know that this is an unusual shift… I have to make due. I have to prepare for the harvests, the second harvest (Mabon, Sept 22) will be upon us in no time… So it is time to start seriously cleaning out for the season, going through the cupboards, storing up the thick, hearty meals that I will want and need (and will want to have easily on hand) in the coming months…
And still… it doesn’t exactly inspire me to sit and knit away my hours, or plan out huge batches of chili or pestos or meatballs to be parcelled out in the future… it makes me want to have the time, energy and freedom to go out and play with the kids, not needing to get up for school or weekend activities the next day…
(sigh)
At least the colours are likely to change soon
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