Fall musings

The last weeks have carried winds of nostalgia. I am trying to buckle down and do the extra fall cleanings and canning the harvest of summer, but my mind is distracted too often. Like wind piled leaves, nostalgic memories just whisper to me until  I jump in the pile and let the breeze wisp over my mind.
Basically i am not getting much work done but I am really enjoying fall. ;)
I grew up in a subdivision I wont pretend to have the same work ethic and stomach of a true country / farm girl. My mother is such a one and i do not compare. But i have memories of canning and picking fruit from rows of Grandpas orchard. -There is nothing quite like the feel of fall air around you as you pick apples, and later can and preserve them.
But mostly I have been in a very lazy comfortable sort of nostalgia.
I have been overwhelmed with the silly but firm desire to reread children books and watch old TV series. Like a tugging wind of fall (I LOVE wind) . I have been reading Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books, watching Sabrina the teenage witch and and curling up with fuzzy blankets and cups of cider. Eating and baking.
It might perhaps seem odd that reading certain books and watching certain shows is a sort of nostalgic memory i have associated with fall but i don't think so. All things we did as children seem to take a certain form in memory. I jumped into the pile of leaves and smelt the delicious and musky aroma. I drank the REAL apple cider (the kind you have to shake to keep from settling) I had plenty of time to read.
In my family we also have a love for English literature and the TV series BBC inevitably makes from the famous classics they can claim. I grew up encouraged to read said great classics, once I was in junior high i began to read all the wonderful books on my moms many book cases, Jane Austen Novels and The Bronte Sisters, Charles Dickens, as I grew older I learnt of Elizabeth Gaskell and Oscar Wilde, my sisters (and mom of course) and i watched and read and loved so many of these great authors stories. I don't know why I have associated them with fall but it seems I have because every year I get the urge to read the same books and watch the same shows. (it also happened at every other season but with different books)  I have been listening to Pavradi (that association with fall is not an upbringing thing but i think it might be from when i had music major roommates in college), watching North and South (okay if you have never watched that BBC show go watch it right now- for real) and of course reading Little Women (its a classic).

The fall books and shows I "have" to read/ watch are:
Little Woman- Louisa May Alcott
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle- Betty MacDonnald
Farmer Boy- Laura Ingalls Wilder (sometimes followed by reading all the other books)
The Sherwood Ring
Persuasion- Jane Austen (sometimes followed by another of her books)
Poetry of Edgar A Guest
Taming of A Shrew- Shakespeare- Sometimes I just watch the movie
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
Cook Books- yup
Sabrina the Teenage Witch- TV series
North and South-BBC mini series
Wives and Daughters- BBC
Its the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown-and the thanksgiving one too.
Bewitched -Old TV series
Magic town- B&W with Jimmy Stewart (also Charade is good with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn)
Around Christmas it becomes absolutely necessary for me to read the traditional short story - A Christmas Carol by Dickens.

Around Christmastimes end when winter is still in full swing I read voraciously . Call of the Wild by Jack London is a must, as well as Tom Sywer and Huckleberry Finn.(those books help me feel like its not really ugly winter outside)  I must read LM Montgomery  books and of course as spring sets in I read all my new books- or the book I have never read before. It kinda mirrors the season.
Although I must be honest I read new books all year round its just that I don't reread old books so much in spring. I honestly don't read much at all in summer (comparatively speaking-I probably go from a 2 book a week average to a 1/2-1 book a week average- because I am busy climbing mountains or dreaming of climbing mountains).
Recently i finished a few books that just didn't quite thrill me (they are romantic christian novels not dirty or horror novels) but i just was not excited by them i think i have to reread them. I have been reading so much non fiction recently that i think my mind is having a problem switching modes.

Question when you count how many books you read in a year (which i don't because its to many to keep track of, but mostly because I am lazy and forget) do you only count books that you have never read before? That's what makes sense to me but i guess that is not strictly a "books i read list" because any reading is reading right?   Is there a rule about that?