Recap

Perhaps jumping the gun a little, this was a weekend of fall comforts. First - Friday and Saturday - I helped paint the entire upstairs of a house chocolate brown. Now, it was not my house, and painting is basically manual labour so how can that be considered a fall comfort (you say)? To which I reply, it looked good when we were done, it was distraction away from my seething hatred towards a certain computer company whose product is still sitting dead on my office desk at home, and yo - chocolate! I guess they had originally wanted to use a bright sunflower yellow colour - brown was their, uh, number two choice (wakka wakka wakka!).

Then, anniversary dinner at The Wooden Monkey restaurant in the city. Curried squash soup with coconut. Tall glasses of Garrison Red. Giant pork cops covered in apple chutney and huge mounds of hot, seasoned veggies. Mmmm. Then on to the gala film festival showing of the local flick with big names, Summerhood (more on that later), where the art and film snobs with stupid hair and wrinkled vintage suits were thinned amongst the crowds of more common folk like us (with bad hair and wrinkled mall clothes). Halifax was cool, not cold, not crowded, not Dartmouth, barely sober, and - most importantly - not raining.

Then, on to the folks' place on Sunday for dinner, hangin' out and, er, the Ryder Cup. Big juicy pork roast. Homemade bread. Squash and turnip and carrots. Blueberry pie. Jesus I'm drooling. Then we came home and lit up our pellet stove for the first time ever...

Today on the drive to work, I noticed the leaves are changing already. Good. Yay fall - s'my favourite time of the year.