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Fall, Our Favorite Time

Every year for the past three, I have longed for this time of year. Fall. Sometimes it only feels like a symbolic end of the heat of Summer, but the past few days we've been blessed with beautiful weather. Waking up, finding Muzzy's leash, opening the door and not feeling the sudden rush of the wet blanket--the Mississippi humidity--improves your whole day. Muzzy, the ever-excited one, finds even more energy when her hair stays light and fluffy and in no way resembles a television commercial's example of "a bad hair day." Marin has also enjoyed the cooler temps, if for no other reason than she hasn't been turning red as a tomato after 20 minutes of outdoor play (see photo). Sure we don't have the changing leaves (mostly pines, oh and our yard has two 6' trees), but we welcome this time just the same. The miser in me loves the fact that the air conditioning gets a rest, if only at night. The fiying is much more fun too. As you might imagine strapping on 35 lbs of gear and jumping into a coffin-sized greenhouse and then get airborne turning and climbing, pulling and maneuvering. Sweating and soaking.
All of that is on hold and so I happily I sit here, listening to the crickets mixed in with my neighbors air conditioning unit and hope that our reprieve is really here.

Trip to Memphis

Last week we all traveled to Memphis. The trip was made a little out of necessity (Gustav), but more than anything it was time to get away from Meridian for a while. Memphis is great. We stayed at the Westin "10 feet off of Beale" which allowed dogs. So, Muzzy made the trip too. She may be a city dog after all. As you might imagine, Beale St. is noisy until about 3am and then it really gets loud. It was nice to walk around a city, see some history, eat some good food and get away as a family. All in all it was a smashing success: we avoided the storm, met up with our friends and managed to have a lot of fun.

PS The little boy is Peter Morrison, our friends Nic & Amy Morrison's son. They live in Memphis.