I finally switched over my clothes. We usually get a hot snap after I pack away my summer stuff, but that don’t look like it’s going to happen this year. It always feels so good to get the closet and drawers in order. Toward the end of the season, they get a little messy, you know, with all that digging around in my fall/winter clothes for sweaters and such. I even put the flannel sheets on the bed, and have started making soup for our lunches. These are my yearly rituals that mark the changing of the season. Here’s one of Charlie’s:
How’d it Get to be October?
How’d it get to be October?
Mowin’ season’s almost over
Grass is growin’ through the leaves
And no one’s nestin’ in the eaves
This summer, guess I’d have to say
Mower mostly run OK
Crapped out on me, mid-July
Agway, they sent out a guy
But it was nothing, just a spring
Loosened by my jostling
I gave the thing too hard a push
Underneath that pricker bush
Oh, no matter what the weather
Mowin’s ‘bout as fun as ever
But once you give up your evasion
You kinda rise to the occasion
And focus on the task at hand
Off you go in la-la land
Back and forth, but kinda wishin’
How you’d rather be off fishin’
Ran the sprinkler when I thought to
Not as often as I ought to
Ours, like every lawn in town
Remained a greener shade of brown
One more mowing, chug-a-chug
Then drain the engine, pull the plug
Time, I guess, as temp’s get lower
To fire up the ol’ snowblower
Apple crisp, anyone?
That’s it for now. Catch you on the flip side!
Hear Ida Tell It: How’d it Get to Be October
Upcoming Book Events and Performances
October 25: Book Reading: The Sweet Life, Bailey Public Library, http://www.baileylibrary.org/ 6:30pm, Winthrop, ME
December 3 & 4: A Very Ida Christmas, The Footlights Theatre, http://www.thefootlightsinfalmouth.com/ 2:00pm, Falmouth, ME
December 13: A Holiday Visit with Ida, Kittery Historical and Naval Museum, http://www.kitterymuseum.com/ 7:00pm, Kittery, ME