踏进公司，碰见了Lynn迎面打招呼，她的一句Happy Monday and Happy the First Day of Autumn让我记起今天是北美日历里的第一个秋日，也是秋风时节。特此小记。
At 7:20 am this morning, I was downstairs in the kitchen to prepare for the breakfast. It was a cloudy morning, and the sun was nowhere to see. So I rolled up the window blinds to let the air and light in. Then I turned on the faucet for washing. The water was warm. For a moment, I thought I might have accidentally shifted the faucet to heat position. But I didn’t. All of a sudden, I remember the old winter days back home, when I had to handwash clothes by the well. It is the warm well water that mollified the otherwise harsh winter washing. As each bucketed water from the well was lifted, on the water surface arose some thinly steam, quickly vaporizing in the cold wind.
I parked the car across the street of our office building, as I have been doing this for a month now. Walking by the towering trees lined on both sides of road, underneath which is strewn with fall leaves, I felt a bit chilled.
I was at the office by the time the wall clock showed 8:50. After logging in, I took the cup and headed to the kitchen. On the way I met Lynn, a plump lady in HR, and I greeted her good morning. Her brisk response of “Happy Monday and Happy the first day of Autumn” reminded me that today is the first day of Autumn according to North America’s calendar. It is really an equinox day, when day and night are of same length. And it looks like that the sun knows that well, hiding behind and having a lazy morning, while the wind takes the lead in embracing us.
The sun finally broke out around 10:22 by the time I am writing this short journal. It's forecast that there will be Santa Ana wind tomorrow, and possible rains towards the end of the week. Will see.
回复 '7grizzly' 的评论 : Thank you, my friend. Yes, I remember that almost every week I Had to handwash the clothes.Good thing is the water was not cold in winter. I actually recently thought about fasting too:) I saw in someone's blog that it is better not to fast over 72 hours (maybe 48 hours are preferable). Good luck to you too.
尼斯 发表评论于
我们这里是九月二十一是秋天的开始，一场小雨过后一下子天就变得很冷了，我们从此要冷到明天四月见了。
暖冬秋意小记写得真好，随心记录了生活的点点滴滴，很喜欢！
问好暖冬并祝秋天愉快！
7grizzly 发表评论于
I never washed with warm water from a well. It must be great in winter :-)
The winter in the north felt bleak and something to endure, except for the Chinese New Year, of course.
I coughed slightly for two nights last week. Had it lasted, I'd try fasting. Take care.
回复 'GraceX' 的评论 : 给Grace上茶，秋天了，喝茶润肺。我是用手机照的，我的手机是国内小米，顺便推荐一下，特别好的，价廉物美。刚刚看了一下，在照相机的setting里，你可以调的，选上"Add time stamp on photos" 即可。你手机的相机一定有这样的功能，这下爬山带手机就好了。谢谢Grace的阅读和临博，祝新周快乐，秋好！
