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it’s official
By Kyle | November 10, 2008
The transition between autumn and winter is bittersweet. My heart loves the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays and I don’t mind the snow, but letting go of autumn is like standing in the driveway and waving goodbye to family that lives far away. You know you’ll see them again, but the time together was so short. The weeks leading up to winter are only a few and they are a beautiful few. From the year I began driving I noticed the progression in these few weeks. It begins on a cold morning in October on your way to work and you nudge the temp dial into the red. Then after work you have to take it back into the blue because the cool morning turned into a warm afternoon. Then it happens…usually in a weekend in mid November…it becomes official. The temperature dial goes into the red to stay until sometime in late March or April.
Well this is the weekend. It happened to me today. After a wonderful, rare day of family time and reading I volunteered to dart out to Wal-Mart for flour tortillas. As I buckled my seat belt and shifted to third gear I officially entered into the winter mindset. The temp dial went to the deep red, most likely, for the winter
I’ve been trying to think of a way to make this spiritual, but I can’t. I guess I can just say thank you Lord for the winter season.
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November 10th, 2008 at 7:45 am
I’m still holding out for a break in the weather for Thanksgiving weekend. We usually try to kick-off winter with one last football outing before the Midwest gets unbearable.
November 10th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
BRRRRRR….ARE YOU SAYING THIS IS THE FIRST DAY OF WINTER???
NOT http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/winter/first-day-of-winter.html
I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL…. YOU SCARED ME FOR A MINUTE OF COURSE YOU LIVE IN SOUTH BEND…. BRRR I REMEMBER THOSE LONG WALKS FROM THE STATE LINE TO AUTEN RD… WHEN I WAS IN THE THIRD GRADE……
GRANDMA
November 10th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Hey, son. Good words. Good thoughts. I sure understand the picture of short visits and saying goodbye to people you love. I can’t tell you why, but it always seems like a special passage when on a cold morning the warm air first blows from under the dash. Maybe it’s because I have had cars a few time with defective heaters and they are torture. thanks for the good visit this weekend. Keep writing. You have a gift.
November 10th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I’m with ya on this one Kyle
November 14th, 2008 at 11:31 am
My Brother… it has come. I am enjoying the time by the fire… it’s going now. I think was the first time I really enjoyed fall… a lot of the other years I simply dreaded it because it meant winter…. I want to enjoy each season…
just like life 
Good thoughts!! So true.