Fall is my favorite time of year, the kids are in school so I have a bit of free time during the day to keep caught up. The weather is wonderful with warm days and cool nights perfect for sleeping with the window open, and most of all it is the time of year that the leaves turn, the only downfall is that the leaves also fall into my yard and have to be raked up and hauled off. Other than that this is the best season by far. I can wait for the real cold weather I like it like it is now highs in the 60’s and the lows in the 40’s with fall getting the least amount of rain of all the seasons it is a perfect fit.
Sleepless night
Last night I had a terrible time falling asleep. I kept turning out the light and turning of the TV, then I would just lie in bed with my thoughts racing. So I tried to put infomercials on TV to bore me to sleep. But some of their stuff was pretty interesting and I couldn’t stop watching the show. So I didn’t get much sleep last night.
Sunday cookout
I’ve just about got everything ready for the spur of the moment cookout I decided to have. I think when I got up early this morning I was in a cooking mood. I made potato salad, a tossed salad, deviled eggs, jello and fruit salad, and we have corn on the cob and chicken, steaks and hotdogs. No one wanted to have hamburgers. I also made some other things, and have chips and munchies. Have to go to the store and get some soda pop and the sun tea is good to go. It’ll be a filling supper, if nothing else. I like days like this!
Be Careful With Aspirin
I bet most families have a bottle of aspirin in their house somewhere. I know a lot of people prefer other pain relievers, like Advil or Tylenol, but I still think that people keep a little bottle of aspirin in their medicine cabinet. It’s a carryover from the old days when there were not many alternatives.
One of the problems with aspirin is that it thins your blood. So if you are taking aspirin for a toothache and then the dentist has to pull the tooth, sometimes he can’t do it right away because of the risk of excessive bleeding. This happened to a friend of mine. If he had not been taking aspirin for several days before seeing the dentist, he could have had the tooth pulled and on the road to recovery. But since he had taken so much, the dentist sent him home for 4 more days of pain AND orders to not take any pain relievers. Then he went back and got the tooth pulled. That was a long painful ordeal and I did not know that aspirin would have contributed to the problem.
Summer time
I really do love the summer time in Tennessee. It is not as hot as it gets in other places this year we will not hit more than 97 degrees on the thermometer and we have had a good amount of rain up until August anyway. Last year was so dry and then in the fall when it began to rain it got so green so fast it was amazing. When the leaves turn after a year with an abundance of rain like this year it will be majestic. We have cool nights in the summer I remember as a child in Western Oklahoma the nights were so hot and not a breeze moved most nights we sweltered at times. I am so glad that I live in Tennessee now and do not have to worry about the hot weather suffered by other areas.