Dog Weather.

This is the dog weather. Good wind and the temps falling off. There's some kind of half-hurricane down east that's trying to give us rain through the weekend. The bathroom out back comes along: trim on the door today. The novel comes along: I'm working against/toward an early October deadline. Randy Newman on the stereo. Crickets and wind through the window. Dog trying to decide whether or not to eat. Flannel and jeans. Knit cap on the dogwalk—that was out of season, but a kid can hope. Wind again. Pretty little sunset back home out of 27244 around 7:30. The days are shortening right up. Fall. It's almost fall.

The dog spent the morning out back biting the wind.