Autumn
Monday, 10.02.06 @ 12:01AM 
The Autumnal Equinox came and went without notice here, because we were dealing with April showers and floods again, like we do all year. The usual exception is October, which is usually a gloriously beautiful month here in the hills. I still have plenty of garden chores in the fall, like mowing (til November at least), pulling the garden plants, turning the compost, planting winter wheat, and hauling inside whatever flowers I think I can keep alive over winter. Sometimes thats just my natural optimism run rampant. In between, I always manage to take a few roadtrips into the higher elevations to savor the fall colors. Looking at the mountains covered in red, orange, yellow, and green gives me the urge to make a patchwork quilt in those colors, although it would never be a stunning as nature’s patchwork. I took the kids to Virginia Saturday, to Cumberland Gap to take the Gap Cave tour (formerly Cujo’s Caverns). The colors are just beginning to peek out. Soon as we passed the Virginia state line, Princess says, “Virginia! Lets go back to Washington, DC!” Um, kid, sorry, its not that close.
October is also time to get cranked up for Halloween, so expect a lot of posts this month on Halloween customs, skeletons, monsters, vampires, pumpkins, and ghosts. Its artist Kipling West’s favorite season. She’s been collecting Halloween home decor and also found time to design this poster.
Send your friends an Autumn ecard. Of course, you don’t NEED an excuse to send a greeting, but this is a nice one.
Autumn is the perfect time for stargazing. Mainly because it just might not be raining.
Skunkfeathers makes a pumpkin pizza pie.
Ballads of the Barefoot Mind is a multimedia exhibit opening October 6th at 21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky. It will most likely feature Letters from Death, a macabre collection of art and poetry on the subject of death.
Hale McKay wrote a poem to say goodbye to September.
AUTUMN WISDOM
Autumn is a season for big decisions -- like whether or not it's too late to start spring cleaning.
Autumn -- time to drag out your winter clothes and see what kind of summer fun the moths had.
This autumn we can look forward to falling leaves and rising gas prices. We'll be raking it up while the oil companies are raking it in.
The autumn leaves are a lot like raising kids. First they turn on you, and then they fly away.
And next thing you know, you look out the window and they're back!
THE STATE FAIR
A man takes his wife to the State Fair and one of the exhibits is that of breeding bulls. They come up to the first pen and there is a sign that says "This Bull mated 50 times last year."
The wife pokes her husband in the ribs and says, "He mated 50 times last year."
They walked a little further and see another pen with a sign that says, "This Bull mated 120 times last year."
The wife hits her husband and says "That's more than twice a week! You could learn a lot from him."
They walk further and a third pen has a Bull with a sign saying "This Bull mated 365 times last year."
The wife gets really excited and says "That's once a day. You could REALLY learn something from this one."
The husband looks at her and says .... "Go up and ask him if it was with the same cow."
RAKING LEAVES
A couple is doing yard work and the wife goes to take a shower. Her husband is looking for a rake and can’t find it. He yells up to his wife, but she motions to him from the window like she can’t hear.
So he points to his eye, hits his knee, and then makes raking motions.
("I need the rake.")
She replies by pointing to her eye , grabbing her left breast, slaps her butt, then rubs her crotch.
The man is confused and runs upstairs. "What? What was that?"
"Eye, left tit, behind, the bush."
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. If you’re over 40 and haven’t had a mammogram this year, call and make an appointment now. If your health insurance doesn’t cover it, complain! Learn to do a self-exam, then do it every month. And go check out the Fifth Annual Blogger Boobie-Thon. Bloggers of all sizes and both sexes have submitted photos of their fronts to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. So make a donation!
Previously on Miss Cellania: Autumn Finally!
Thought for today: There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Reader Comments (10)
I'm not usually a big fan of fall, but that alone could turn my tide!