It's Almost Over

A Northerly wind came in today. With it flew my sister and her family as they drove "down south" (to the Hamptons) after a glorious 2 week stay. TSA also took flight with the wind, to Los Angeles for 3 days.

It's amazing how a 20 degree drop in temperature, the absence of 5 people, and a red maple leaf siting on the ground can alter the season in an instant.

Yesterday we were sweating, slapping mosquitoes, standing over the fans, making nature t-shirts with leaves and bleach and wading up to our knees in the lake until dusk.

Tonight,  the waves on the lake are louder than the snores of my two little bedmates, who are curled up wearing long-sleeved pajamas and clutching a stuffed bear and dog. I struggled to crank the windows shut to keep the Canadian wind on the outside of our little cottage. 

It hasn't been quiet all evening. After dinner they played outside while I drank in the sunset with my evening beer.  We've been here for almost 3 months, and we only have 1o days left.

While I'm excited to go home and see my California besties, I'm also feeling seasonably wistful.  My brain has shifted into sensory recording mode. I'm keeping a mental file so that when I think about this place in the next nine months, I'll have sound bytes, smells and images at the ready.

Tonight as the boys were falling asleep, I tried to get Shnook to listen to the waves instead of blabbing to me about how fast his new Pumas would be once he got them:

"Mommy, they're going to go like 8 miles! My other shoes only go like 1 mile."

When I reminded him we were leaving his response was:

"Don't worry, Mommy. We'll hear those sounds again soon. We'll be here next year."

I thought the kid was supposed to be the impatient one. 

Happy end of summer to you all.

 

Comments

[Danielle]

It's still plenty hot in Napa during the day, though the nights and early mornings are getting much chillier, letting me know that Fall is a-coming. I am wistful too this summer, since Abby just started preschool, and is officially leaving baby-hood behind. I can't believe it's been two years since she was born...the time went painfully slow, and breathtakingly fast all at the same time.