We’ll here we are. Fall has finally shown up. The temperature has taken a turn for the better and gone are those one hundred plus days. Folks are cooking chili, stew, and chicken noodle soup. Friday Night Lights are once again glowing through the evenings which are growing cool and crisp. Hot cider, hot chocolate, and coffee sounds like the drinks of choice (although any day without coffee is troublesome to me). Windows open, air conditioner off nights. Doors open (fly fighting) days. It is all certainly welcome!
Well, to most of us it’s welcome anyway. The smell of autumn has just arrived, and we already have people posting snowmen memes. The leaves ain’t even turned colors yet, and we got flake flakes posting hopes for snow, ice, and cold. People, you don’t have football without fall. You don’t have Halloween without fall. You don’t have harvest moons, warm cider, kaleidoscope colors, pumpkins, sweaters, hayrides, or pictures of bushy-tailed squirrels gathering acorns without fall. You can’t hang out that scarecrow door wreath you’ve been storing in the coat closet for the past ten months without fall. No caramel apples, no excuses to buy bags and bags of candy, no reason to complain that Christmas is already on display at Walmart, and (this should hit you hard) no gaining an extra hour of sleep when you Fall Back without fall. You simply don’t have transition without fall. So, you freeze freaks cool your jets. Let’s let fall stay here a little while. I can do without shoveling snow, scraping ice, and thawing pipes just a little bit longer.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the picturesque snow covered countryside; warm fires and cozy movie nights as much as the next person, but it seems summer and winter get too much of the year. Fair is fair, and I like the in-between. Spring and fall around here have been getting the short end of the stick, pushed out of the way by the big seasons. To each its due, folks. I’d like those mild Goldilocks disappointing temps (neither too hot nor too cold) to stick around for at least long enough to get tired of them.
So, you snow worshipers out there, slow down your prayers just a bit; hold off on those snow posts; keep the snow boots in the hall closet just a little while longer, and remember that about two months into the deep freeze most people are going to be calling for sun. Let’s get some cool, crisp rain with fall feels before we start trying to remember where we left the snow shovel.
