fall is finally here

it is finally fall here. i can finally feel the temperature drop because in the evenings i wear the socks i knit last fall and often go back to my closet to pull out my auc hoodie that michael got for me when we moved here. at night when we are sleeping we all have on long sleeved and long legged pajamas and i pull the covers over my head in the middle of the night because the air conditioning is so cold. of course when i go outside it is still hot beach weather, but the trade winds have been blowing and i needn't have my car's air conditioning on full blast - in fact i have to turn it down or i get cold.

what's more is that the sun sets at 6:00 and that makes for cooler afternoons in the house and earlier bedtimes for ezra and i. today we spent the whole day inside. i cleaned, rearranged the furniture, went through my stack of crafts, threw some away, put others aside, and then made some fall decorations with ezra.

we used some water color paintings that we had made weeks ago and i cut out some fall shapes. then i taped some of our fabulous transparent paper on the back along with some double sided tape for hanging and ezra placed them on our sliding glass doors.

the afternoon sun glows warmly through the shapes so nicely, i'm glad i did these on a whim. ezra asked me to make thomas and percy, hence the blue and green ones that i happened to have because i recently picked up some more for the holidays.

we baked fresh rolls from scratch this afternoon and had them with our carrot soup at dinner. our diets have shifted from being more raw to regular cooked vegan fare - mostly in the evenings and still having green smoothies at breakfast and salad for lunch. as i write this i can see my belly bulge from eating more bread, but i don't care... that much.