I have many delightful, wonderful aunts.  3 on my Dad's side and 4 on my Mom's (only one "blood" uncle-no wonder the women in these families are so strong willed!).  But my aunt Maxine, in particular, is a nut!  She is so funny and whimsical and we love her to death and today I realized that the "apple don't fall far" from the proverbial family tree!

My good friend Tootie says that especially now, in autumn, as she looks out her window, across the barren fields, she can picture Laura Ingalls comin' across home.  So this morning I put on my apron and my bonnet and drove down there and snuck out back and "came across her field"!  She threw open the window giggling and said-"why howdy Laura!  Come on inside!" and I went inside and we had coffee and chatted and didn't do housework!

And I realized-I am a nut too.  And I crack myself up!  And I might be becoming my Aunt Maxine!  And that is a very good thing!