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@julia-r Thank you. It’s really weird because, going by the calendar we have been in spring for 23 days. *calendars* 😛 My favourite thing about thing about spring is that the next season is summer and I loooooove SUMMER!!! 🙂 🙂 No, I like spring too. I love being able to head outside and enjoy the fresh air. It is a beautiful day out there today, so I know I will be enjoying it soon. What about you? What’s your fav. thing about autumn?
Well, I’d have to say, unfortunately, that autumn is my least favorite season. I like autumn, but I like all the other seasons better. The part of autumn I don’t like is when after all the leaves have fallen off, and the world is all barren and wet and moldy, like around November. I love the corn maze, apple-cider, and pumpkin cookie part of fall, though! I’ll have to post my favorite pumpkin cookie recipe sometime!
Oops, @bluejay, I forgot to tag you! Read my previous post 🙂
Yeah, I have to say that’s a pretty dismal part of autumn. The colours are always pretty though. 🙂
Pumpkin cookies sound yummy. Yes, do post the recipe. 🙂 *yummy*
@julia-r
Speaking of recipes, here is my favorite soft pretzel recipe. These are so delicious! A lady in our life group brought these once and they were gone in an instant!
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/6966/soft-pretzels-ii/?internalSource=staff%20pick&referringId=16220&referringContentType=recipe%20hub&clickId=cardslot%206
Awesome. They sound very yummy. 🙂
Autumn and spring are actually my favorite seasons, so I like pretty much everything about them. Let’s see…I love that everything blooms in the spring; all the flowers are sprouting, and the birds are back from the south. *sighs happily* I love fall because of the weather (at least in Ohio): not too cold and not too hot. I also just love the leaves changing.
Whoops! Forgot to tag you. @julia-r 🙂
Ohio (as you might remember, I live here too!) has awesome weather. It gives you just the right taste of each season. Warm and sunny in spring, hot enough to swim in summer, cool enough for corn mazes and apple cider, and plenty of snow in winter. My favorite season is spring, because it’s just so beautiful, and my birthday is in spring :). We have a 25-minute drive to dance class twice a week on a highway surrounded by woods, so that’s awesome in the fall!