It is definitely fall here in the PNW. Actually, It feels quite a bit more like winter. There have been tree days we have awaken to find that there is snow on the peaks surrounding our house. That just lets me know that the white fluffy stuff is just around the corner.

Fall in the PNW is VERY different from a warm southern fall. I would have to say that fall in the south is ONE thing I miss. The thing is, that fall weather that we would wait for all year I get up here all the time, generally. The thing we don't get is the color and the smell. There is just a certain smell in the air during a Southern fall. I always expressed it and honeysuckle as being two of my favorite smells ever. Neither of which I have here, but I will take the trade off.






Another thing that I am losing quickly is daylight. During the summer here it is nothing to still have twilight at 11PM. It is getting darker a lot quicker now. By this winter it will get dark at 4. Jake will go to school in the dark and come home in the dark. It's slightly depressing for a while, but we don't seem to let it get to us.

We haven't had our bear problem for about a week now. We still haven't caught a glimpse of it but we know it's there by the incredibly large piles of scat it leaves behind. Plus Willow goes NUTS at night when she smells it or sees it. So luckily over the last week we haven't been waking up in the night to quiet the dog. That will change again when the loaded down apple tree on the edge of the yard starts shedding the apples in the top of it's branches.



Everyone is great. We finally hit our one year mark here, both living here and working here. It was exciting, yet at the same time we wonder where the time went...surely it hasn't been year already! It has.

So I will bid farewell for now as I sit with my blanket over my shoulders, listening to Jack's soft snore and Jake beckoning me to sneak up on a deer in the front yard.