{"id":137,"date":"2005-10-02T09:28:49","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T07:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=137"},"modified":"2010-05-24T22:02:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T20:02:59","slug":"autumn-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/137","title":{"rendered":"Autumn is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been almost a year since my last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/pics\/album\/72057594141177195\/Flowers_Trees_and_Leaves.html\">I LoveThe Fall<\/a> photos and posts.   This is one of my favorite times of year for so many different reasons.  I always get the feeling like I should be out buying pencils and getting in as many bike rides as I can before the snow.   I love going out and feeling the chill in the air, going into a shop and seeing the first x-mas decorations and buying new scarves and mittens.  Some may think mittens are for kids but anyone who grew up in a cold country knows mitts are where it&#8217;s at.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday when I was sweeping the floor I noticed I was humming christmas carols.  I&#8217;m not sure what brought it on but it&#8217;s happened a few times over the last week or so when I was doing my housework.  It&#8217;s October now, only 2.5 months until I get to put up my x-mas tree, which is one of my favorite activities in the world.   We use a fake tree of course, because a real tree would be a pain to lug up three flights of stairs.  Or rather, a big pain to take back down when the needles are falling off and stuff.  Also, my cats seem to have a strange urge to climb real trees, but not fake ones.    I think I might get a slightly bigger tree this year, a little higher and fuller than the one we have now.<\/p>\n<p>Went to see Pride and Prejudice on Thursday with a friend from class.   We spent the day in town shopping and having lunch and decided to take the chance to see this &#8220;chick flick&#8221; that both our husband&#8217;s grumbled about not wanting to go to.   I&#8217;m glad I did because I&#8217;m pretty sure Xander would have hated it and she agreed that her husband probably would as well.   I loved it though, it was sooo romantic, every bit as good as the book I think.   I read it a few years ago and loved the story so much that I had to see the movie when it came out.   I haven&#8217;t seen the older movies but I think I might try to rent them, although it&#8217;s doubtful I&#8217;ll find them here in NL.<\/p>\n<p>The death of my &#8220;grandfather&#8221; seemed to go by pretty uneventfully.   They did put my father and I in the obituary and the way it was printed made it sound like his current wife was my grandmother, which I thought was ridiculous.  I learned more about him from that small write-up than I did in the past 30 years.   He had a ton of brothers and sisters, most of whom are already dead.   He has only two sisters still alive and they don&#8217;t live in Cape Breton anymore.   The most interesting part was that he didn&#8217;t have any other children with his current wife.   He had only one child in the entire world and couldn&#8217;t take the time &#8230; how pathetic that his family, which is basically just his wife, felt the need to use us to bulk up the summary of his empty life.  I think they should have added that the only thing my father ever got from him was diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>Well, my burn of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0430105\/\">Four Brothers<\/a> just finished.   I&#8217;ll be spending the next 109 minutes drooling over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000242\/\">Mark Wahlberg<\/a>, yum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been almost a year since my last I LoveThe Fall photos and posts. This is one of my favorite times of year for so many different reasons. 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