The Sounds and Smells of Fall

I've totally noticed the pull of the lawnmower here in my neighbourhood. One neighbours powers up the mower and people kind of look at each other in the house, "did I just hear a..." and it's only April, and sometimes May, because well it's Canada, BRRRRRRRR! The changeover happens again.

Soon it will be October and I'll pull in the yard just back from the stores with high priced snowsuits and gear and next powerful machine I hear is someone "just fixing"' or "preparing" their snow blower or putting that new (or in great condition for it's age) plow onto the lawnmower or ATV, and then it happens a flake falls. Every neighbour is late for work and they all rush to get their shovels, brooms or motorized snow removal equipment. This is all a different In March when that ,Freak snow storm that really wasn't so freaky, is announced or falls. They aren't all rushing for the shovels, no they are all hiding in their homes waiting to be unfrozen. For now we're still doing lawnmowers.
Tonight another "fall" smell followed me as I walked my major high speed, more because it's cold ad I want to get back home before my breath cloud does, walk. I did well tonight 45minutes of good walkinng vs the mini walk I did earlier in the day. This night walk was for me. It followed me all over the neighbourhood the smell and it wasn't BBQ burgers, hotdogs, sausages that I had smelled last week, it was woodstoves! Yes it's begun, the neighbours are firing up the furnaces and getting ready to put another log on the fire as they hybernate and wait wait and wait for spring to return!
BRRRRRRRR! I'll just wait for that baseboard heater to kick in!

Kyooty center: Walking Motivation and Me time

working on my blogging skills I posted this ovver there vs here and I meant to post it here. Bare with me! you would think after 5yrs of having a blog I'd know how to use it?

Kyooty center: Walking Motivation and Me time

Seems I've Been Found, Now I Have to find Me Too!

I guess that means the kyooty is still here and needs to get out more. I find it very hard to separate the Kyooty that is me and the Kyooty that is the Mom! I guess I've been a mom for so long that I don't remember very much of the me that was before I was a Mom?

I don't remember my life before my kids well I remmember lots but I don't think about it as time without kids. I do though need to be more Me every once in a while. I do not have many hobbies. This internet is a bit addictive though, I read a lot and see a lot of other posters that have a great grip on seperating parenting and themselves. See even in getting to this point I'm still Mom. Will I ever be able to separate that? More hobbies, maybe if I worked outside the home it would come easier? I'd meet more people, and meet more people that aren't Mom's too?

So I'll keep working on uncovering Kyooty and maybe it will happen. Things done for Me this week? going walking, making food that I "need" vs what everyone else will eat, and uh that list isn't long enough so I'll have to really try harder!

So today I noticed

Kyooty,that's me! Kyooty is how I've been typing out cutie since about 1995, so it sticks. This is me! I'm not sure how long or what I'll use this space for but we'll have to wait and see. It's here it was available I took it!