Fall mornings

This morning my wife and I got up and took in the beauty of fall, it was gorgeous. We were the only ones on the trail. There is something about getting up to a crisp morning that makes me want to get things done. The cool weather alone makes me want to be outside working. I the best thing about the fall weather is the beauty. I love it when the leaves change and there is a clean feeling in the air. I have to admit it's a great time of the year for sports too, there is October baseball, the World Series is right around the corner, football season is in full effect and basketball is getting ready to go. And for all you norther country boys... hockey is getting ready to drop the puck too.

There is a feeling of moving on with fall, it's a new time of year and a new season. I look forward to enjoying the duck hunt, pheasant hunt and outdoors as much as possible in the cool weather. Here is to fall mornings and enjoying them the country boy way.

Fall days = College football

I absolutely love college football, I love the pagentry, the emotions, the plays, and the hype for the year. It happens every time, we come into the season thinking our team has a chance, we really think that. One loss into the season we are salvaging the season by rationalizing that next year will be great because we have so many returning starters and young players. The next week starts the battle all over again, depending on a win or a loss we start talking how this will impact the next season and what it all means.

It's kind of ironic that we always are looking forward to that next season thinking about what may be. In a world that is so big on perfection and getting everything right it's hard not to. There are very few teams and fans that can live in the now. Alabama was and is a now team. Ohio State (for as much as I think they are overrated) is a now team. Boise State, this is it, it's now or never. And maybe Oregon and TCU. The rest of the other 119 Divsion 1-A football teams are all thinking about next year... and what it could be.

You know what though, we love it and we come back for more... just like Kenny Chesney says in his new album Hemingway's Whiskey:


In little towns like mine that's all they got/
Newspaper clippings fill the coffee shops/
The old men will always think they know it all/
Young girls will dream about the boys of fall/

Sometimes it's good to just live in the now and enjoy what it's all about.