Drizzle

It’s a true New England style autumn where there are still brown and yellow leaves on trees and a warmish drizzle of rain making the world dreary but not quite depressing.  It’s unusual to experience this type of autumn in Alberta where this time of year it would be cold, blowing and probably snowing.  So despite it being rather bleak outside, inside the house we are happily baking cookies and cakes and nestling by the fireside as we watch “Johnny English Reborn”.  Just enough to put absurd on the day.

       It is interesting how weather can control one’s mood but it is even more fascinating to monitor one’s own reaction and realize that we can still be in control of the mood.  I started out thinking that I wanted to just stay in bed and read Stephen King until noon; then I pulled myself out of bed at 8:00 and began the process of writing which got me into a nicely testy mood; so then I thought I would shake myself out of that frame of mind by baking.  Things were going nicely until the Kitchen Nazi, also known as my brother, wanted to tell me how to bake my chocolate chip cookies. I’ve only been making them for 45 years so that was not going over well.  Change topics, change mood.  As the cookies came out of the oven we were all much more cheerful and as we turned to look out the back window we saw the rain had stopped and we started smiling.

       Life is always good with a chocolate chip cookie, especially from me.  J