cooler

 

I heard a sound this morning that I hadn't heard for months, the furnace went on about 6:00. Outside gauge read 45 degrees this morning, no wonder. Closing the windows at night now, the butter in the container on the kitchen counter has been very soft during recent heat spells. It has now hardened considerably in the past day or so. This last observation may not seem to dovetail with the usual variety here on this blog, but it demonstrates the transition from summer to fall as much as a flock of geese heading south for the winter. As a matter of fact, my all-time favorite observation is how salt clumps up in the salt shaker during the most humid days of summer