I know it’s only the first day of September, but my annual sign that fall is practically here came when Thom and I passed by Starbucks today, peered through the window, and saw these magically delicious phrases on the menu board: pumpkin spice Frappucino and pumpkin spice latte.
It’s been a relaxing, sunny start to the Labor Day weekend. Earlier today we went to the Westlake mall, where Thom got his hair cut, and then we had lunch at the good old Westlake Coffee Shop. We shopped around for a bit (DSW is a constant siren calling to us … but lately I’ve been looking for boots, and why, oh why does this location not carry men’s boots?). Not that I need more shoes. Recently I was rummaging through the dark and scary warren of dust bunnies under our bed and found several perfectly good pairs of shoes I had totally forgotten about.
Later in the afternoon we drove to San Mateo and revisited the Peninsula Humane Society to take a look at the cats available for adoption. Yes, we’re planning to get a new cat (or two?) in the near future!
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And it was no ordinary dust bunny he found under the bed; I had been listening earlier that same day to a podcast about the megafauna that had lived in the Americas before homo sapiens, and so I realized this was clearly a Giant Dust Bunny from the Pleistocene.
A Giant Dust Bunny from the Pleistocene? Neat! 🙂
Man, I wish companies like Starbucks and McDonald’s would just bring back these treats every once in a while as a surprise, so I wouldn’t have to wait until fall for Pumpkin Spice; or March for Shamrock Shakes. Or winter for Pepsi Spice. Or Thanksgiving for Egg Nog Lattes.
Not that I would have had a clue, but I had not realized that Daly City was the inspiration for Malvina Reynolds’ “Little Boxes.” (Clicked on that link for Westlake Coffee Shop.) I have fallen in love with that song since first hearing it as the theme song for “Weeds”… though not so much liking them having a new person/band sing it every week. Nothing beats the Malvina original. So, is your house really made out of ticky-tacky?!
The original and some of the other versions of “Little Boxes” can be found here:
http://music.homegrownseries.com/