Boom!

It's raining outside. We're probably getting the storms that passed over the Midwest yesterday.

I've never minded thunderstorms. As long as I'm inside, they're not going to hurt me. They're also a good excuse to turn the TV off and just sort of be for a while. And, living in Central Pennsylvania as I do, the rain helps reduce some of the humidity that seems to settle in from May until mid-September.

When I was driving home this afternoon, I noticed ears on the cornstalks. Cumberland County is very corn-intensive and during the summer, you see acres and acres of it. Other things grow here, too; there are a lot of orchards that grow apples and stone fruit, but corn predominates here.

In fact, fresh food is the only reason I like summer at all. Summer is hot and humid and buggy. It's going from cool house to air-conditioned car to air-conditioned building and back. It's mosquito bites on inconvenient body parts. It's too much sun. It's long days with not a lot to do. Winter isn't that much different, except that it's too cold. Spring makes me sneeze.

Which leaves fall. Fall is, without a doubt, the best season. It's warm, but the first little chill is nice. The leaves on the trees on Kittatinny Ridge are vivid red, orange and yellow. I like breaking out the sweatshirts and being able to wear jeans without roasting to death. And football is the best. Game. Ever.