As days shorten

So far the deer have left our Halloween pumpkins alone. Other years, not so much. One day this week or next we'll haul this year's pumpkins up the hill behind the house and leave them on the ground under the pear tree. The freeze thaw cycle seems to soften pumpkins, making it easier for deer to gnaw on even if there's no face carved to provide an opening.

a past year's pumpkins gnawed by deer

Photo by J. Harrington

Slowly, in fits and starts, we're easing into what will pass for our holiday spirit this year. Frankly, learning to enjoy more what we have already, rather than wishing and hoping for more of what we may want but don't really need will be a welcome change this year. Provided we don't run out of health, coffee, food, warmth, good books and enjoyable company we have enough and more. Further proof that less can be more, our Twitter timeline is becoming more enjoyable as the quantity of insane political content slowly diminishes. That's a plus.

deer enjoying pumpkins under the pear tree

Photo by J. Harrington

Over the next couple of weeks autumn holiday trappings for Halloween, Samhain, and Thanksgiving will be replaced by yule and Christmas decorations. We're looking forward to that more than usual this year. We're also working harder at not letting "the perfect become the enemy of the good." If you asked us, we'd tell you that we first encountered that concept in Frank Herbert's Dune series, but as of moments ago, we'll be damned if we can find the quotation using all the powers of the internet at our disposal. Perhaps we'll put a reread of Herbert's classics on our list for next year. It's time to begin thinking of such things since the shortest day of the year is but five weeks from today.

Perfect

By Kenn Nesbitt

Today I managed something

that I’ve never done before.

I turned in this week’s spelling quiz

and got a perfect score.

Although my score was perfect,

it appears I’m not too bright.

I got a perfect zero—

not a single answer right.

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