September 1, 2007

• It rained most of the day and I think a tiny front moved in~it was cool outside this evening and I thought I smelled Fall! 

  Yesterday, my dh discovered that a few boxes of my teaching supplies and books that we had in storage behind our home had been destroyed by termites.  He burned most of what was left, but I was able to go through and salvage some items (a pewter sunflower plate, crystal wine goblets [I'm so grateful that he didn't break these when he put them in the trash--he didn't realize that they were Princess House, crystal that I used to sell and now collect!]).  As sweat was dripping from my forehead into my eyes, I wished that I had organized all of that stuff a long time ago!  I wouldn't have lost so much...I don't even know what was lost because he burned it before I could get back there...

  I am glad, however, that those papers and books were so easily accessible to the termites to eat.  They chose them over my American antique dining room table (it has four leaves and stretches out to be 8 feet long!  It never fit in my tiny breakfast nook here--no "formal" dining room in this patio home!). 

  Yay, September!!  I am so excited about the approach of Fall...

  

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