November........

I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
Its cloud illusions I recall...

Making six cups of coffee gives me two mugs....eight gives me three.....it’s a no-brainer to figure out that as the weather turns cooler, I’m gonna have t’make twelve cups just to kickstart myself.....
So I’m thinkin’ that I only had three cups of coffee this morning but since my fav’rite mug evidently holds more than two but less than three (you figure it out, too complicated f’me this early in the day)......anyways, what it is, dieticians come unglued if you tell ‘em that you drink eight to twelve cups of coffee on a daily basis... I had one tell me once that I should only eat half of a banana....I tried it, but then I ate the other half as well...couldn’t tell any difference......
T’other day, she told me that eating a large pear was the equivalent of eating two slices of bread.....with or without butter, I don’t know, I didn’t ask her....
I like bread ‘n I s’pect that I could eat a couple slices no problem, especially with a cup of coffee (or two) altho’ normally I would toast the bread ‘n add a dollop or two or three of butter....(maybe apple butter, I like apple butter, it’s a comfort food for me) but I like pears also...especially Bartlett pears when they’re in season....
S’funny if you come to think on it, when I was younger I used to really enjoy having stuff like pears or strawberries p’tickly when they were out of season... When I was a boy, only rich people could afford out of season stuff but times changed....store freezers are stocked with all kinds of stuff no matter the time of year....’n for the most part, pretty reasonably priced...but the funny thing is...I almost never buy stuff out’a season anymore...
I kind’a like looking forward to stuff comin’ into season....like strawberries...not in the stores but when y’can buy them right out’a the fields....they are so good fresh-picked that you can’t hardly get enuff of them (at least for a couple weeks).....
Teevee movies are the same way....years ago I bought a bunch of movies so that I c’d play ‘em anytime I wanted...then I found out that I didn’t want to play them, I preferred to wait until the powers that be decided to program them.....like the faux scary pics they program around Hallowe’en ‘n the sugarplum fantasies of Xmas...
I think it has t’do with getting older...a time for ev’ry season kind’a thing...’n it’s just possible that the weather, the change of season thing, is making me pensive.....
Years ago, way back in my way back when time, I used to take my shotgun ‘n wander the hills and the riverbank...I never really shot anything tho’ I suppose I tho’t that was my intention at the time...anyhow, way back then, I wrote a poem.....not a very good poem but thankfully a short poem....not quite sure exactly how it went but something like this:

November...
The air is crisp ‘n clear,
the hills are brown ‘n sere,
‘n I lay in the dry grasses,
dreaming......

Now, I told you it wasn’t very good but at least it was short....
And I gotta tell ya....T’day is the first day of November, 2008 ‘n there ain’t anything crisp ‘n clear about it...not here in northern California anyways.....it’s raining, a steady downpour from sodden skies...well, shoot fire, (as the old man used t’say) we need it. After two years of drought ‘n increased population using more water than any time in history, we’ve a severe water shortage to add to our list of trubbles here in the golden state....ah, the price of paradise.....
Back in the 80’s, son Dave gave me a fly rod ‘n I took up fly fishing for awhile...It’s a grand sport whether you catch fish or not ‘n I used to take my dogs ‘n walk down to the American ‘n spend an hour or so casting.....I never caught anything ‘n when the price of a fishing licence got too high, I gave it up....But I figured out why I used to take my gun ‘n go wand’ring ‘round the hills ‘n the riverbank.....
“Ommmmm........”