Hello, fall.
There are unraked, crunchy leaves on the sidewalk because Lord knows your neighbors can't keep up with all the dead, falling foliage, and your current body heat is 50% from your mustard-colored, chunky-knit sweater and 50% from the pumpkin-flavored coffee that you overpaid for at a big chain coffee shop.
We welcome you with open, sweater-clad arms and hearts that are full (and/or clogged from eating too many pumpkin spice donuts).
This is not a fall bucket list.
This is a list of things that are obligatory once September hits.
Is it even fall if you don't...
- 1. Document your pumpkin-spice beverage on Instagram.
- 2. Overpay for apples that you picked yourself.
- 3. Spend a significant amount of time sniffing candles labeled "sweater weather" and "give thanks."
- 4. Question how candles ended up with such names since neither of those titles describe particular scents.
- 5. Shamelessly pose holding a pumpkin while strangers pick out their own large, brightly colored gourds.
- 6. Add soup to this week's meal plan anywhere between 1 and 5 times OR order soup from Panera.
- 7. Have a bonfire the minute the weather permits (and here in Philly it's been 80 degrees up til this past week soooooo.......).
- 8. Describe the air as "cool" and "crisp."
- 9. Take a toddler (your own or a borrowed one from a friend) on a hayride.
- 10. Post the stereotypical fall foliage photos in a blog post. 😉 What you're looking at here is Pennsylvania's lame attempt at fall foliage in October (we have all those 80-degree days to thank for everything being green instead of bright red and orange...).
Make sure to read these sarcasm-free fall-related posts, like the best DIY fire pit and this curry squash soup recipe.
Actually, I can't promise there isn't sarcasm in those, too. I didn't re-read them before adding the links. 😉
