Five Fall Favorites Book Party

Hello, all! I wanted to drop in quickly today to make all my fellow book-lovers aware of an amazing book party multiple authors are hosting and welcome you to my second favorite season of the year. It's time to curl up as the air grows ever crisper and read your favorite books.

You can view the main site for the party, Read Another Page, by clicking on the blog title. For two more days ten readers are sharing their top five favorite books in a different genre each day. This is the second annual party; and I enjoyed the last one. So far, this one is fantastic too! Maybe I'll even end up sharing some of my favorite books as well. Additionally, there's a huge book giveaway with a grand prize awesome enough to make any reader covetous. :) So come—join in the fun! Let's get in the book-reading, fall spirit. Once again, click HERE to participate in the party! Three cheers for books!

P.S. Stay tuned for a new blog layout in honor of autumn's arrival!

Autumn to Me

This post was inspired by another blogger friend, Faith P. Thanks, Faith! To read her post, click here.

What does autumn mean to you? To me, it is:

• Cleaning our woodstove chimney
• Short days and chilly nights
• Getting up while it is still dark
• Long shadows
• Unpacking winter clothes
• Shivering until we light the fireplace each morning
• Watching leaves flit through the sky on their way to the ground
• Being more careful when riding the horses because of breezes that might spook them
• Starting to think about Thanksgiving
• Harvesting the last of the garden
• Pumpkin flavored everything! (pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin-flavored chips, pumpkin-flavored cream cheese, pumpkin pie, pumpkin-flavored marshmallows, pumpkin-flavored cereal, pumpkin ice cream, and even pumpkin-flavored pumpkin seeds!)
• Eating more homemade soups and breads
• Baking
• Shopping for Christmas
• Leaves crunching beneath my feet
• Doing more blog posts and novel writing
• The Circle C Short Story contest ;-)
• Both my parents' birthdays
• Looking forward to my birthday (aka. making a wish list) 
• Reading a good novel in front of the fireplace
• Rain and wind
• Changing my blog layout to give it an Autumn look (For those of you who read my posts in your email, check it out! I think that it looks pretty cool!)

This is all what makes autumn be autumn to me! What about for you? Do you identify with any of the things that I mentioned? Thanks for tuning in!