Today

It is finally sweater season in Virginia. I love sweater season. Starting in about August my sweaters start to call to me from the guest room closet. Periodically I go in looking for a sweater that I might be able to wear in warmer weather. Every year I can't resist and I try one for a day, and wind up sweating it out as a consequence. I feel like fall is the time for rediscovering the other half of my wardrobe, which is always fun. It is doubly fun to put Savvy in sweaters too. She has been exploring her sweaters by tasting various parts of them. I pick her up and find her forearm, neck, and lower part of the zipper wet where she has been sampling. (I am impressed at how much saliva she produces!) She is becoming so fun. Her jabbering has exploded in the last few days. She has learned some new consonants. "Do-da" and "Lo-la" with a few "b's" and "t's" in there as well. It is pretty fun. (If you look closely, you can see her teeth! The last of the chicken pox scabs are nearly ready to fall off.) :)

It is also time this week to pull out the summer garden and plant the pansies. We will eat our last garden tomatoes this week. I will miss the incredible gardening here in Virginia next summer. We have been able to grow many semi-tropical plants that are so beautiful and easy to tend. It presents a new challenge to have to learn a new climate and how to garden in it. I do look forward to it, but with some trepidation. After 3 years, I finally feel comfortable with things here, just in time to move on.