Fall Splendour.

Right now is perfect for the beautiful fall colours and just the right time for all the entire fall colour spectrum to be displayed on the maple trees all at the same time; the cool nights and warm days are just perfect for bringing out the bright brilliant colours and as you can see on the same tree you can see the greens, the yellows, the light oranges, the medium oranges, the dark oranges, and the reds, all at once. I also caught 2 more mice on the table with traps since the original one but none this morning so either I caught them all or else they've warned their friends and when we get the new sidewalk I know I'll be tempted too to carve f*ck or something into the fresh new cement; I guess part of me will never really grow up and I had a dream as well I had some kind of surgery and a nightmare as well Buddy lost one eye and was blind in the other but he's still my beautiful boy and I still love him just the same.

 Someone on the radio also mentioned their big 50th birthday bash and it still hurts that I never got anything special for my  50th 5 years ago, just the usual card and cake like any other birthday but no big deal yet when my mother turned 50 I hired a limo and had this company put 50 tacky flamingos all over the front lawn overnight and despite having 11 kids I never had a baby shower either until my 9th baby( the 21 YR old) when my Jehovah Witness friends gave me one. It hurts that no one ever cares enough about me that there's nothing about me worth celebrating. I can still remember with the 19 YR old too how her umbilical cord only had 1 artery and 1 vein (they're supposed to have 2 arteries and 1 vein) and how it's rare, only 1% have it(I get that alot) and usually means chromosomol, heart and kidney abnormalities and they scared me thinking she had Down Syndrome and a heart defect (and all the tests I had to endure)when I was prego but luckily for her I am ardently pro-life and I wouldn't kill her regardless, and as it turned out she ended up perfectly fine in the end despite it.

Once or twice a little leaf was heard to cry and sigh,as leaves often do when a gentle wind is blowing and the twig said, “What is the matter, little leaf?” “The wind”, said the leaf,just told me that one day it would pull me off, and throw me on the ground to die.” he twig told it to the branch,and the branch told it to the tree.When the tree heard it, it rustled all over,and sent word back to the trembling leaf. “Do not be afraid”,it said,”hold on tight and you shall not go off till you are ready.”
So the leaf stopped sighing and went on singing and rustling.It grew all the summer long till October and when the bright days of autumn came the leaf saw all the leaves around it growing very beautiful. Some were yellow,some were brown,and many were striped with different colors.Then the leaf asked the tree what this meant.The tree said,”All these leaves are getting ready to fly away,and they have put on those colors because of their joy.”
Then the little leaf began to want to go,and grew very beautiful in thinking of it.When it was gay in colors it saw that the branches off the tree had no bright colors on them, so the leaf said,”O branch! why are you lead-colored while we are all beautiful and golden?” “We must keep on our working clothes”, said the tree,”for our work is not yet done; but your clothes are for holidays,because your task is now over.”
Just then a puff of wind came, and the leaf let go without thinking and the wind took it up and turned it over and over.Then it gradually fell gently down under the edge of the fence, among hundreds of leaves,and has never waked to tell us what it dreamed about.

From the McGuffey readers 1878

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — Leo Tolstoy