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When they got home from school they began filling the boxes with their plans, hopes and dreams for the month.

I am not the only one who waits at the window for my little friends’ return.

I could have tried to describe with words the unbearable cuteness of the three tiny peppers that grew in my garden this summer, but the camera makes easy work of it. Next: Laura sews tiny clothes for the peppers and stages a pepper puppet show.

Cooler weather brings the smell of green coffee beans roasting out on our back deck. We all wait quietly and listen for first crack. The beans are best the day after roasting. And the coffee is smooth and delicious.

It was hard work. I had to lift heavy pine branches over my head to finish the lean-to, and while I held still to staple the sides of the tee pees, the mosquitoes nearly ate my face off. In fact, one bit me on the left side of my lower lip, and I have been doing dead-on Silvester Stallone impressions all afternoon. Adriaaaaaaan! ...

Our family is going through a time of necessary change. This new season in our lives is exciting, and nerve-wracking, and emotionally exhausting. Some of us are pining away for what was, and some of us are straining toward the new adventure. Some of us find ourselves standing, bewildered and in between, like a transmission half-received.