My Pretty Little Sushi Surprise...

Is it really fall?

Sometimes in California September temperatures are in the 100's... and they have been for weeks now.  

I mean I am hot. 

I'm talking sweating in my house and wanting to wear a bathing suit kinda hot.

Don't fret my sweet readers, I don't subject anyone to that sight but only because I don't want to scare the children's friends you see.

But I seriously am not feeling like putting out many fall decorations under these extreme circumstances.

Sooooo my love surprised me with a sushi picnic last week. 

It was just an ordinary day and he is my hero like that and we were sitting there with our ginger and wasabi and I glanced over and hanging above my head were these spectacular looking things.

What are they?

I just don't know... but I stood on the bench and broke the branches right off of that fabulous colored ball tree.

A dog walker came around the corner and gave me a little fright because for some reason I felt a little like a thief.

But I got over it because I didn't take that many and it was a huge tree.

I placed those adorable ball branches in the basket of my bike and laughed.

I rode home extra careful so I wouldn't hurt my balls and they wouldn't fall off.

I said that out loud and I made Tom laugh.

We are funny like that.

So here you have it my fall decorating in September.

Oh how I love my pretty balls...

Is fall here yet?

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus

I love fall.
I love everything about it.
I can't remember if I have always loved it or because everything that is wonderful in my life happened in the fall.
Either way I get a little spring in my step when I feel it coming on.

It has been a crazy month and I am ready for all the smells and coziness that fall will surely bring.
Unfortunately mother nature is not cooperating at all.
We have had unbelievably warm weather and if my kids were not in school I would think it was summer. Therefore I took matters into my own hands and brought fall into my house. I omitted most of the Halloween fun to put up in a couple of weeks. This is fall decorating phase 1 and I have to admit... it alone has given me a serious spring in my step! :)

So any who that is all for now. I am off to finish my meatloaf dinner (don't be fooled this is no ordinary meatloaf) and german chocolate birthday cake for one of my favorite fall blessings.

I am linking up to the mantel party at The lettered cottage and fall door party at Southern hospitality. Sorry I can't figure out how to get that badge on there.