Labor Day 2011

I drug my feet.... I screamed at the top of my lungs... NO! NO! NO!!.... but.... the last HOO RAH of Summer... aka... Labor Day... came and went all the same!  You just can't stop time from continuing to march onward!  However... those of us who live in Kansas enjoyed a spectacular clear sunny day with temps in the 80's.

My husband Joe and I joined some family friends at the pool at noon... where we enjoyed hamburgers, ice cream, popcorn, beverages, lots of sunshine, got in our last laps and splish splashing pool time, and bade 'goodbye til next Summer' to all our other friends.  We were blessed and lucky to have such a gorgeous day together... especially since I hear our family and friends back east in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio did not fare as well and had cool/cold temps with dreary rain all weekend.

Our sun-fried crispy little group left the pool at 6:00 p.m. to go home, shower and change, and later meet back up together at "Ken's Pizza" for dinner... which is just the BESTEST pizza EVER!!!  We ate pizza, pasta, and salad, we laughed and giggled, and talked about all the fun times we had had together this past Summer... then we all trudged and shuffled to our separate cars, our heads hung low, and our lips drooping, to go home and actually bring an end to the last HOO RAH of Summer to get ready for work and school the next day.  The last 4 day Holiday weekend of Summer had come to it's end!

Here in Kansas our temperatures remain in the 80's and 90's this week and next... the nights and mornings are Fall-ishly cool, but the days are still sunny, warm and beautiful... but no matter... it still feels like Fall.  Whether I go into a grocery store, a department store, or a craft store.... all I see is pumpkins, Halloween costumes and decorations... and YES!!!!!... even Christmas decorations!!!  Which makes me say.... WHAT!!!!!!!... there is just something sooooo wrong in seeing decorated Christmas trees in stores in Sept!!!!!

The Kansas State Fair arrives here in Hutchinson Kansas tomorrow.... WOO HOO!!!!.... I'm really looking forward to that.  Then next weekend Joe and I are going to our first Fall Arts and Crafts show of the season... and so thus stealthily and quietly Fall approaches with it's pumpkins, gourds, scare crows, caramel apples, apple cider and hot chocolate!  I'm still not ready to bid adieu to Summer... but... Fall is coming right on schedule, just like it does every year.

Once Fall has arrived... I do enjoy the season... begrudgingly!... but I do enjoy it's specialness... and then my pouty pants whine begins again... when Winter begins to show up!  No offense to Winter... but the older I get, the more I just DO NOT LIKE WINTER... even though I LOVE the Holidays... I just HATE the cold, and all the clothing layers needed, and heavy coats!  ICK ICK ICK!!!  I'm like a bear and try my best to hibernate through as much of Winter as possible, waiting for the first signs of Spring... when along with my Winter clothes, I put away my pouty pants whine and bring out my smile of blissfulness that the warm sunny days have returned once again!

Hello Fall,  and to Fall Festivals, Football season, Pumpkin Patches, Fire pits and roasted marshmallows, Trick or Treating, Chili season, and to all the rest of what the Fall season brings with it!