Warm Days

It's around 10pm and I'm at home alone in a very pleasant mood. It's been unseasonably warm for October. October in Minnesota is usually crisp cold air and the return to scarves and warm jackets. It's bizarre really, when I think about it. I was wearing a t-shirt and pants today and I was HOT! When I walked up the hill and went to the grocery store I was so thirsty. I ran into my friends Lauren (girl Lauren, not guy Lauren)and Mike. They told me about a blueberry-pomegranate juice blend that the store sells and I got some and went home and drank it up.

Now I've made myself a dinner of pork chops (organic grass-fed, so tasty!), farafalle pasta and a mustard cream sauce with cracked black pepper and finished it with chamomile tea and a couple squares of good chocolate. Simple dinner (I think Marco learned it in college from Pyves!), but nice.

I'm content because I also got part two of a trilogy of books that my friend Emily introduced to me. I checked it out from the library today. I'm ready to curl up and read before bed.

Outside there's a storm. It's just like a summer storm. Theres a soft rumble of thunder and the patters of a light rain on the sidewalk. It's still so warm at 10pm! I've got the windows open and the ceiling fans turning and I changed from pants and shoes to shorts and bare feet to cool off. I love that. I like the feel of the cool wood floor under my feet.

It's not that often that I have quiet evenings of reading like this, all by myself. Marco's in France for a week and a half. He gets back Sunday. I hope the trees are still bright yellow and flaming red when he gets back. That's how they are right now. This storm might shake the fall leaves off the trees though.