As a poor sleeper, I dread the time changes. They mess my sleep up big time. Of course, this past week I have been sleeping really well. I mean a full night’s sleep, waking up after 6:30 a.m. It was great, but figures that it was coming right before the time change. I think I worried about it because I woke up at about 12:30 and that was it. I was up for several hours and finally falling back asleep somewhere after 4:30. Boo.
In town on Sunday was the Chronicle Book Fair. This is an event which features local authors who sell their books (and sign them), plus lectures and talks about writing and the literary space. Chapman Museum, where I volunteer, has a table set up selling some of the books we carry. This book is about Seneca Ray Stoddard, who was a photographer famous for photographing the Lake George area. Chapman has many, many of his photos.
There are so many local and regional authors. From all ranges of nonfiction historical books to murder mysteries and children’s books. It was pretty neat. This was just one of the rooms in use for the fair.
Being so close to the election, I also met a candidate who stopped by our table that I was thinking about voting for and after speaking with her, I will be. Bonus!
It was finally sunny today, too. It’s been rainy a lot. I’m going to need to start taking vitamin D! It was very windy yesterday and a lot of leaves came down:
John was raking today while I was at the book fair. There are a lot of leaves yet to fall, though! Not sure if biking season is over yet or not. I haven’t been on the bike in a few weeks because of the crappy weather. November is pretty sketchy, but I haven’t brought my bike inside yet being the eternal optimist 😀
I brought in my two hibiscus plants and one has been blooming a lot, but the orange one just kept dropping the buds before they opened. Not quite sure why, but yesterday two opened up!
This is my favorite hibiscus. I don’t know if it will survive the winter inside, so this will be a fun experiment!
I’ll be back to posting more eats this week. It’s already feeling hard reeling in the post biking season eating and logging my food on my phone and here will be helpful again.
Here is to a good week and don’t forget to vote on Tuesday!!
Its always fun to try to get plants to survive the winter inside… I hope you make it with the hibiscus.. I’m sure you already know but just give it the most sun you possibly can… Even if it loses all its leaves.. it might just go dormant so cut back on the water then.. fingers crossed.. I had a hibiscus tree that limped along all winter long in my living room… I had no room that would give it enough light.. cleaned up leaves all winter… Come spring i put it out on the front porch and it flourished.. this went on for YEARS.. until we moved to CA from TX .. and i had to give it away.. 🙁 Hugs! deb
I pretty successfully kept a hibiscus going for several years by bringing it inside. Then we acquired some new furniture and I had no place to keep one so now I buy a new one every year.
Deb has good advice – they need sun, do go dormant a bit, and drop leaves. Put it back outside as soon as you safely can and I’d be it will keep on going!
That hibiscus and the golden leaves are sooo pretty. The book fair sounds like it was a lot of fun!
I hate the time change! My toddler got up at 4am yesterday 🙁
Between the time change and going from PST to CST, I don’t know what is going on. But that’s not very unusual for my daily life, LOL.