'Tis the season...

Yep, it's my favorite time of the year again!!!  Football season!

I love emailing my friends on Friday mornings (Happy Game Day!), the way the day cannot go fast enough for me, making sure my camera battery is charged, my memory card  cleared (always have a backup), the restless anticipation, and then (FINALLY) heading to the game, hearing the drum line warming up while I'm still in the parking lot, and smelling hotdogs on the grill.  THEN comes the warm up,  getting chills when The Star-Spangled Banner plays, making sure my camera settings are right, flipping of the coin, shaking hands, and the whistle on the kick-off.  Whew!  Then the game goes by in a flash!  Halftime--change camera settings.  Second half goes faster than the first.  Win!  Go home happy, but wishing it had not gone by so fast, and not wanting the day to end.

Saturday morning uploading photos.  Editing and cropping over several cups of coffee (my family knows this is where I will be--no making breakfast on Saturdays in the fall), uploading to the website, listening to College Game Day ("Yeah, we're comin' to your ci-tay"--hey there, Kirk Herbstreit...), searching for music for making video, uploading to facebook,  making sure all are up and running correctly.

Then...spending the rest of the day watching college games (hoping the Aggies are on tv).

That's pretty much my schedule during the fall.  It's the most wonderful time of the year for me.

113

A couple of weeks ago we took a trip to Texas.  While we were in Ft. Worth, our car thermometer read "113 degrees"!!!!  I took a photo to prove it!
Let me just say...it was H.O.T. Hot.
I know, it was probably not really 113, but I am sure it was at least 105 or maybe 110.  Or maybe it was 113.

When you live in a climate like that (even though that was pretty hot for Ft. Worth), you just get used to it.  You go from your air-conditioned house to your air-conditioned car to your air-conditioned work or the air-conditioned store.  You just dress so that whatever you're wearing doesn't show sweat that badly.  And you schedule your summer college classes at 8am so that you are walking across campus in the coolest part of the day.  Ah, the memories...

While we were traveling, I realized how much I do miss living in Texas...I have such wonderful memories from those times....
But I don't miss the heat!

Happy 4th of July!!

I hope everyone has (or has had!) a happy, safe and fun weekend!!

Snow Day

Yesterday morning it was sunny.  And I saw the grass.  It wasn't green...it was sort of a brownish-greenish color. But I saw it. 
The last few days we have enjoyed (dare I say it) almost balmy temperatures.  Last Saturday I rode in my car with the window cracked just enough so I could smell the air. I just knew that spring was on its way! 

Then this:



Another snow day.
Don't get me wrong!  I love a snow day just as much as the next teacher!
But I am over the snow part.

Happy Holidays

We are enjoying a white Christmas this year in Michigan (it doesn't happen every year, surprisingly).  It does make it look a little more "Christmas-y", though. 

I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday season! 

True Colors

Fall is here!  Today we are experiencing an unusually warm day--the high is supposed to be about 78.  But most days it gets to the high 60's...maybe low 70's.  Perfect weather in my book.

I do love Michigan in the fall.  School has started...football is in full swing (see previous post for those ramblings)...the colors of the leaves are truly amazing...and the temps are getting cooler.  I like the spring (finally some GREEN after all the snow has melted and all we've seen is brown for sooooo long...and spring also means my birthday!), but my favorite season has to be fall.

I am going to a senior photo session today at the Nature Center.  The colors are going to be beautiful!! 

One of my favorite seasons...

Yep, it's that time again...there's a crispness in the air (or mugginess, on some days...this IS Michigan, after all), the smell of freshly-mowed grass (or the plastic-y smell of turf), cleats, pads, jerseys, mouthguards in a pile in the living room, the sounds of ESPN (the default channel on our tv). 

It's football season.

I do love high school and college football.  Pro, not as much.  In high school and college there is such a spontaneity...anything can happen.  The underdog sometimes surprises us.  There is high emotion, and it's so real.  The pulse of the drum line you can feel in your chest.  The smell of grilled hot dogs.  Okay, I think I need to stop.

How many days til Friday?