fall

How do you deal with the bitter reality that summer has gone for another season and the fall blahs are here to stay? "It's cold and damp", I whine. No more glorious walks on a sun drenched beaches. No more garden (only the basil seems to be hanging on for dear life). The leaves are dropping in abundance. Vancouver had it's first windstorm of the season the other day. April seems like a long way away.

It's kinda like the way my body feels these days. Plus, I have already had a cold... drip, drip. Aches and pains, things are dropping (or drooping), no longer the summer body I enjoyed for so long. As the pain killer commercial tells you... "you feel rusty." I don't feel like a trooper today. Plus your body doesn't get an April. There are still the occasional hot flashes to remind me of "warmer" times. I guess they are easier to tolerate in the cool of the fall than the summer heat and humidity.

However... I have a gift certificate for a spa treatment. Squirreled away from last Christmas. I'll likely go slough some dead skin cells, maybe have a spa massage to help with some of these achy muscles. Like oil for those rusty spots. Hoping it will help me put the spring of summer back in my steps for a few days.  I may no longer have a summer body, but spring will come back to Vancouver. We'll get the garden in earlier this year I hope. Nothing like watching a garden grow to make you feel young again. I'll try to pretend that's not so long from now. Stretch. Hibernate. Sleep.