Burning Leaves
photo credit I'm alone in my kitchen on a Saturday night making Muddy Buddies because I'm alone in my kitchen on a Saturday night. One side effect of moving to Utah last summer was the instant outsourcing of my date night to BYU sporting events. I can hear you wondering why I didn't go with Jeremy to cheer on the Cougars, and you make a very good point, only it's cold outside and I basically need optimum temperatures AND a friend who doesn't care about football to sit with me in the stands. Yay sports! This afternoon Jeremy and I stood in our backyard in the ankle deep leaves that needed to be raked, and he said to me, "Is this what we wanted when we decided to move to Utah?" The question was less about unraked leaves and more about our sad teenage daughter, our broken washing machine (the repair man has already come twice and failed to fix it twice), the paper pile that is starting to lean to one side, and how Jeremy is leaving on another trip in the mor...
