Life is Good!

The colors of the leaves are nearing their peaks. That's somewhat surprising, since many seemed to change in late August!. This year's colors seem to been heavily gold, yellow, brown, with some reds and oranges. Of course, it might be a bit early. My brother was in Vermont a couple weeks ago and marveled at the colors there--yep, I remember Western Mass.

One night last week, as Ashley was thrashing and kicking while asleep, she burst into a giggle, a long giggle. Still sleeping, she was laughing very hard. I started to giggle a bit myself.

I also had Bopper laughing very hard a few times last week, so hard he had trouble catching his breath. It's good to see him laugh.

The Codester is always laughing, except when he is hungry or I'm not around. He has this devilish grin on his face, getting into something he shouldn't be getting into and then turning around to give me the big grin. That, and when he rests his hand/arm on my shoulder when I hold him...what is it the television commercials say, "priceless."

Reading a novel by Hal Higdon now, Marathon. It's about the final 72 hours before a major megamarathon, a fictional one, although, like many of the characters, thinly disguised. I am drawn to it because of the running link, but also the many plots/subplots and the characters. the characters are easy to id with ties to my own life (and, I suspect, many others' lives). So far, I am enjoying it a great deal.

Where does time go? I think I had one deadline on Fri, missed it. One was moved up from Dec 1 to Nov 1. Another is Oct 30.... Toss in midterms this week, Halloween, a visist from my favorite aunt and uncle this week, whew...do things ever slow?