Spring Cleaning Needs to Come Early!

With all of my focus on cleaning up the leaves in the yard, everything else seems to be suffering a bit. This became brutally obvious when I found the pictured spore sitting right on my desk! A poor comment on the state of my office tidiness, perhaps, but I found it to be a rather pretty ornament and a whimsical distraction to the day's work.

Otherwise... the fall continues to unravel much the same, with Sara traveling to interview after interview and me holding down the fort with the pups while trying to get my applications in. (Guess I should have started on these a bit earlier!) We are looking forward to Thanksgiving with family and friends, and hopefully carving out some time to visit more family over the winter holidays.

Hoping this finds you all well... Jef