Fall has found me!

Wow! It's officially FALL! YEA! Love the cool weather (that's mid-80s in Texas)! My dogs are jumping around like they are teenagers and they are not spring chickens... not in dog years!



My teenager is jumping around because he's always jumping around... and even my husband has a spring in his step.



Even though it's still not cool weather - there is a feeling of FALL.. It's when you hear about a cool front... and the wind that accompanies it is ACTUALLY cool. It's when the sun is bright, and the shade is deep... when my fall tomatoes start to bloom (didn't have time to plant any this year)... when your Friday night dance card is full with high school football... and if you are a mom like me, you've volunteered for concession stand duty on the other nights!



FALL is a time to gear up for the winter. That means shopping for new fall clothes or dragging out the old wardrobe to see what might survive one more season! Maybe a new do... or correcting the summer frizzies.



For Texans, FALL means the State Fair of Texas - which opened last weekend ... Hey if you go be sure and visit the Food and Fiber Pavilion and taste some awesome pickles provided by in a pickle foods. They are a new client of mine and I tell you those pickles are INCREDIBLE... a little bit sweet and incredibly spicy... kinda like FALL.



Ahh... there's homecoming and Halloween and the Cowboys in the new stadium... and I would be remiss if I didn't mention the Texas Rangers... WOW - FALL has found me.



So bring on the cooler nights, the cooler mornings - the deep shade, the bright days -and let autumn begin!

The Social Web's We Weave

Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In: it's crazy out there in the world wide web. Just when I think I've got one form of mass communication down, another pops up. I'll have to admit that I'm a FB and LI customer but have been a hold out on Twitter. I can't possibly understand why anyone would want to know what I'm doing all the time. Likewise, I can't possibly understand why I would want to follow anyone around on Twitter - maybe my teenage son, but I'm not sure I want to know his every move… I'm too young for a heart attack!

Not long ago I was speaking with my cousin who is an accomplished woman enjoying retirement. She thought it would be fun to join Facebook. Her initial impression was good - but she was confused - for her there were way too many privacy concerns. She was not willing to set up her account to lock out this or that, to her it was way too much trouble.

I'm really surprised at the apathy of some of my friends to hop on the whirlwind web social sensation - but hey everyone to their own thing… some of the major complaints I've heard were privacy issues, some can't understand why every Tom, Dick and Harry from years passed are wanting to be their "friend", many don't like the idea of hanging out on a social site 24-7, and some really can't stand the whole technology thing. I think they appreciate it, but would rather not really be apart of the web world.

For me the web is such a reality. I do most of my work online, I get a lot of my news online, and email is one of my favorite ways to communicate!

AND then there's texting… I thank my children for forcing me to learn texting, because if I didn't text they would probably never answer their phones - thus I learned to text, love to text, can get so much more done when I text…

But not everyone is like that… my husband doesn't text, could care less if he texts, and half the time doesn't even check his messages - I can't imagine!

Then there's my 80-something auntie. She email's, she's a digital whiz sending photos of her great grand-daughters across the web…
She would be a great candidate for FB, in fact I think I'll set her up soon. :)