Return of Fall

Fall is back YAY!

Just like that, all the snow melted in one day.

Thank goodness.

Ben came up to visit me again :)

I wanted to go on a huge hiking trip to take in all the gorgeous fall colors in the mountains

BUUUT then the winter storm extravaganza crushed my visions.

(They even had to ban tailgating for the homecoming football game...lame!)

It was kind of fun to pretend Christmas was coming

(ONLY because I knew it would warm up again this week)

I baked amazing cookies

We hung out with new friends

Did a lot of cozy nothing

Ate pumpkin pancakes

and made

BENANNA CREAM PIE!

 [aka ghetto-fab homemade graham cracker crust with sliced bananas and REAL whipped cream squirted on top, silly-string-style]

I don't know if I'm ready to face another week! Back to "reality"...sigh.

 

...Merry Christmas?

Guess what...

yup, STILL SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!

so I'm just eating my oatmeal and pretending I'm HERE:

instead of HERE:

It's not too hard to pretend!

the Ice Queen has arrived

I somehow missed the memo this morning to wear BOOTS to school...

luckily I did wear my fuzzy alpaca gloves because it was raining and freezing when I left the house

and then it snowed.

all day.

I scraped 2 inches of wet soggy slush off my car to go home.

byebye, raspberry bushes

The funniest thing is, LOOK AT THIS WEATHER MAP!

www.noaa.gov

Notice the pretty pink blob sitting on Central PA...

it stands for "winter storm warning"

Not even ALASKA has even a winter storm "watch" (the purplishblue color)!!!

My soul is crushed. Just a little.

Winterwinter go away