You know you're not in Texas when.....

. . . . you're putting the heating on in the house in September!! :-) The weather has really started cooling down here in Denver. Most of this week has been in the low 70's, which means a lot of the day is in the 60's. The lows at night are in the 40's and in the morning I've been putting the heating on for an hour to take the chill off the house, which is at about 65 when I wake up!! 

 Looks like Texas is having about mid 80's weather right now, which I bet after that long hot summer feels pretty cool to our friends there! I don't miss the heat at all, and I don't really miss the fact that I would normally still be in flip flops and capris/tshirt at this time of year. To me, September should be pretty cool and it should definitely be feeling cold come October (my birthday month). For the past 8 years though, it's probably still been in the high 70's or low 80's for my birthday, mid October! 

I'm excited about this year, I already feel like Fall is here, and of course it is. First day of Fall was last Saturday. 

 

I took this picture yesterday, of the oak tree that is in our back yard. You can see it from our living room window and as you sit on the deck outside. I would imagine in the next few days the whole tree will look red. This week we've had some rain and heavy thunderstorms, but this morning is bright and sunny again, and dry :-)  The picture below was taken yesterday afternoon after the rain. This is the view from our 'other' deck!

Another couple of pictures I took last week but haven't shared yet are these. . . . 

 Not very clear, but you can make out that they are deer! About 6 of them were grazing outside our deck early one evening. I never tire of seeing deer. I took a little video of them too, hopefully you can click on it below and watch it. It's about a minute long, so you may only want to watch the first few seconds!!

Today, is Boo's birthday!!! He's 7 years old. I haven't taken a picture of him in a while, so here's a picture of him with Kristen taken back in August, her first day of homeschool. 

and here is little Bindi baby looking all grown up! Boo still does not like her and won't even tolerate her being near him, unless there's food around. Then she can get right in his face and he doesn't care, just keeps on eating!! As soon as the food is gone though, he growls and walks off!!

Hope you all have a great weekend. See you on Monday ;-)