Excuses

This why we live here...just sayin'

Well, well, well...I guess it's time for me to join the ranks of the many bloggers who begin their posts with "Sorry it's been such a long time since my last post". My excuses are many and typical (just too busy...) but my main reason for not posting lately is that my hard disk just up and died on me one morning about five or six weeks ago. Without access to my photos or my Mac I've been a bit lost and the thought of posting from my phone makes my skin crawl. I've been limping along on an old computer of Ken's but the experience has just served to confirm that I am definitely a Mac girl through and through. Lazarus (aka my sweet husband) managed to work his magic again by raising yet another computer from the grave. He even located all of my zillions of backed up files and has restored most of them to my Macbook...I still don't get the whole "they're stored on the cloud" thing but I now trust that it's true and it works!

In the weeks since I've been absent from Newfield Knews lots of everyday wonderfulness has taken place. My students and I made it to Midterm with our wits mostly intact.

Most of us are healthy and each of us is exhausted in one way or another. Commence countdown to Thanksgiving Break!

We're well into the Fall season now and it's peak or just past peak weekend for leaf color. The colors have mostly been muted this year but are still beautiful and inspiring. I miss our big old sugar maple more than ever and as usual I wish I had more time to be outside. We're holding out hope we'll see another burst of sunshine and warmth before the first snow flies.

The pergola is stained and the landscaping is done! For the first time ever, our landscaping plan consisted of total demolition of a garden bed. To rationalize the decision I keep telling myself I'm going for a more Zen approach in my garden. The honest truth is I just don't have time to tend to a garden these days and I'm tired of looking at the weeds and feeling guilty about how horrible it all looks. So George came in with the big rig and just plowed the whole thing under - Oh Happy Day!! After he took what he wanted and I dug up the lone plant I wanted to keep (an oak leaf hydrangea we received as a wedding present) and I said goodbye with a big grin on my face and never looked back. Best decision ever.

I'm now in possession of a new camera - a birthday gift from my sweetie. It's a Canon Rebel DSLR and I am totally smitten. Now I just have to learn to use it. I'm working on that.

Happy Fall everyone!

It's good to be back!