I wish we had more of an autumn here. It is so beautiful. And that first flirt of cool air in the morning when you go out early - that's just magic! We felt it over the weekend. Tibbe stood in the yard with his nose up feeling it. We have a lovely little woods we can go walk in not too very far away from here and it is so beautiful in the fall. So nice to know the best parts of the whole year are coming up. 91 days to go.

Woohoo I love Christmas countdown...I been counting for a month now! lol I love love love Christmas! so exciting and so much fun...little Lexi gets as excited as I do ... well she's all about the presents ... lol she even has her own little pink tree and santa brings all of her presents and puts them under it. She is so cute xmas morning running to her tree and she starts opening her presents without us...so funny to watch!

Oh, you have to share that picture of the pink tree with us! PLEASE post it here! Please!

Oh my God, Saturday through Monday were incredible with clear skies, cool temps, and breeze, and all Cookie wanted to do all day was go hang outside. Saturday and Sunday we must have spent 6-8 hours outside each day.

Sounds like such fun! Yorkies usually love being outside with you. We've got another 4 days of warm to hot days but it cools drastically in the evenings and overnight and I think by this weekend, we'll have a good cool-down and some rain. Hopefully then we'll start to really long-term cool for the season. Can't wait for the leaves to start to seriously turn and fall all over the yard and the neighborhood get that fall look and the pumpkins to begin to show up on the lawns and porches and grapevine wreathes on the front doors. 90 days to go.

Yeah, fall is incredible in Texas. October is by far my favorite month of the year out here. Though I know you guys get real winters up in DFW; 3.5 years ago we got 1/10th of an inch of snow, and it was the biggest snowstorm since the mid 80s in San Antonio. Here's a pic of my Minnie Bear wondering what the heck this white stuff on the ground was lol.

Minnie Bear looks a little puzzled but so cute!

I remember hearing you all got some snow down there in southern Texas and was so happy for you! Even a little snow is fun. We have gotten a few real days of winter with ice and good, fairly deep snow over the years but thankfully, then we always get a warm-up to our normal kind of winter where our average daytime temp is usually in the 50's during the winter months and I don't think we ever stay below 40 all day but half a dozen times or so a year. No snow shoveling ever! It just melts away on its own and is never really that deep - just enough to be pretty and enjoy for a while and take lots of pictures. Once we make it through those two or three months of hot summer, the rest of the year is really, really nice with just enough changes in weather to give us a taste of good variety. Once that I remember in my lifetime it got to "0" degrees here one winter night around 1989 or so - it was dang cold! I was so scared we'd get really cold in the house that night but we stayed warm, nothing bad happened and the pipes didn't freeze or anything! Thinking back on it, it was kind of exciting but I'd hate to live too long in weather that cold or have to go out in it! When I hear that some places get down to -60 and more in winter, I cannot even imagine how they get through it.

Just think, now that summer is ending and besides fall and winter up ahead, we get the holidays, too! Best times of the year just ahead.

I will post a picture of her little pink tree as soon as we decorate it for christmas....lol as right now we have it up and it's decorated with turkeys ...lol we want christmas to hurry up so bad I had to put one tree up just because and so I wouldn't look to badly out of place we decorated it for fall with leaves and turkeys...ok, I know I am a little off....:D

Christmas factoid stolen from a Christmas Tweet:

"Silver Bells" was originally called "Tinkle Bells" until the song writers wife pointed out to him that "tinkle" is slang for "pee".

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Whew....it is a FREEEEZING 62 degrees outside right now! Brr! I love it! The holidays really are upon us. :D

Oh I wish you could send it this way..we are not that far...lol it's 79 degrees outside here :(

Oh yeah. October is just awesome in Texas. Almost makes up for the total suck of August.

It was 50 degrees here this morning and yesterday deliciously windy, rainy and flat cold! Muggy that morning but then the cold front arrived and fall came to Texas! First cool air and I start thinking Christmas. It's sad because as long as the season seems to last these days, it never really lasts long enough for me.

Another pilfered Christmas Tweet:

The first Christmas celebrated in Britain is thought to have been in York in 521AD

Well, it's 91 degrees here today...ugh! Can't wait to head to the mountains in December oh how I love that weather and we will decorate the chalet cabin for xmas ... even cut down a fresh tree to bring home... be there for 12 days and it will be cold...oh and maybe a snow dusting...oh and the 4 fireplaces and hot chocolate...so hard to come home...lol