Got an hour? Listen to this...

Fall was almost my favorite season in Sioux Center. The temperature is nearly perfect and all around the earth and the air are an explosion of color while the leaves change into yellows, oranges, and reds, first on their branches and then swirling through the air and then forming a blanket over the streets, sidewalks and lawns. Some jobs on the nursery allow me to enjoy this process, such as grading locusts or birch. However, overall I have not felt the fall here to be as enjoyable. It is wetter, more grey, and colder. Perhaps this is just a bad year. In any case, I am glad I was able to visit Sioux Center and catch a glimpse of this season there.

But mostly I am glad I was able to spend even a little time with a few of those who have remained there. I have missed you all greatly, actually, and wish I could have seen more of you yet!

Dee and I were fortunate enough to see Sufjan Stevens on this new tour of his. I very much like his new album, or at least what I've heard of it so far. The concert consisted almost entirely of new material, all of which (perhaps due in part to the experience of hearing it live) I found to be spectacular.

Yesterday I was fooling around on some crutches. While my hands were thus occupied, a friend decided to hurl a frisbee at me and afterwards draw my attention to it just in time for me to watch the frisbeen meet the bridge of my nose... Today I had a headache. I would have been okay with that, had I been also rewarded with a black eye. I feel like everyone should have at least one black eye in their lifetime, or at least I should... And this should have been my chance, or so I thought. But no. Not even a bruise on my nose. Just a red spot and a bump and a headache. Ah well. Nothing ibuprofen could not fix. :)