It’s that time of year again. Autumn has officially arrived and with it comes the screaming pages new header graphic.

I’ve always loved the fall. Growing up in the maritimes, autumn was a riot of colour – leaves shone in red, gold, brown, orange. Skys were bright blue (when it wasn’t raining of course). Lazy days of fall seemed to last forever, as the summer gave it’s final gasp and headed off into the sunset.

Here in the north west, autumn runs by a top speed and it’s nearly impossible to find a good display of fall foilage. The days are significantly cooler and frost began appearing on the ground weeks ago. Darkness falls earlier with each passing day and soon sunlight will be a memory. It will be dark when we head to work at 7am and when we head home each evening. Bundled in winter gear and huddled around fires, we quickly become mole people with no memory of the sun and it’s warmth.

But still it’s hard to let go of the fondness I once had for the season. It passes into winter too quickly here.

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Apparently, I’ve been missed over the past few weeks while I’ve been avoiding blogging. I’d like to say I was off on some wild adventures, but actually I’ve just been puttering around the house, building a few websites, taking online classes, and transferring my blog and domains to a new host. Now that that’s finally done, I’m back to blogging. So, you can stop with the evil emails, I’m back 😉

This weekend it was noted that I hadn’t been blogging for a few days. It’s all Darcey’s fault.

He invited me to join Facebook (miles superior to myspace) on Thursday and I’ve been connecting with old friends from pre-school – it’s not as bad as it sounds, we lived in a smallish city and followed each other through til high school in many cases – my in-laws, ex-highland dancers, and the guy who introduced me to my hubby. I’m spending way too much time playing “remember when” and not enough time working on the Web sites’ I’ve promised to friends/clients or blogging. I’m hoping the novelty will wear off in a day or two and I’ll be back to devoting my on-line time to blogging like a good girl.

Today was a holiday so I spent the bulk of it playing golf. I was really lucky that the guys we were playing with were supremely patient – since I’d never held a golf club before, let alone played the game. I did eventually improve, but those 23 shots on a par 5 first hole nearly had me running back to the club house for beer.

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In the past year, I’ve written just under 290 posts and have received 1021 comments. In this time, I’ve also managed to collect up over 10,000 pieces of spam (and no, this isn’t a reference to the SpamJam restaurant in Manila). Perhaps I should have joined the “will exercise for spam” group instead of the “will exercise for comments” blog roll. I’d likely be very svelt and muscular by now. On the downside, I’d likely never have left my poor treadmill for months!

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I’m going to pretend it didn’t snow here last week and that the tail end of April signifies spring in this neck of the woods. With those assumptions in place, I figured it was time to change my header graphic to my nifty spring design (courtesy of Zoe). Enjoy.