Signs that it's Fall in my town...

1. As a result of overenthusiastic apple picking by many friends and family, you have 20 apples sitting in the fridge, 5 in the car and another 10 on the counter. You tell yourself constantly it would be fun to make homemade applesauce or a homemade apple pie. YOU NEVER DO because...

2. You spend all day Saturday cleaning out the closets and packing away the warm weather clothes, just in time to find out it's supposed to be temperatures of 70 and above all week.

3.  You walk into WalMart/KMart/Target and are bombarded with the scents of Christmas...and there they are the artificial trees and wreaths before you even carve a pumpkin...SO, you hurry the kids to the pumpkin farm and spend an evening carving pumpkins.

4. The kids don't believe you in the morning that it is actually morning because the sun isn't up and the moon and still shining bright...

5. The looming prospect of an extra hour of sleep from "falling back" makes you giddy with excitement.

6.  Your way home is decorated with political signs, which leads to some less-than-neighborly encounters.

7. The day after Halloween your overachieving neighbor is kicking the pumpkins and putting up inflatable Santas.

8. Meanwhile, your underachieving neighbor  is taking down the planters that are filled with brown, frost-bitten flowers and removing their Welcome Spring sign on the front door.

9. You want to keep up with the neighbors so on the day after Halloween, you kick the pumpkins, take down the welcome spring sign, throw away the frost-bitten flowers, and hang Christmas lights all in the same day....BECAUSE YOU ARE COOL LIKE THAT :)