When is it fall? (An editorial)

This is a question that I have pondered the last couple of weeks.

Is it fall when the calendar says it is, even if the temperatures are in the 70's? Not in my book.

Then we had a cloudy, stormy weekend a couple of weeks ago. It was raining and yellow leaves were sticking everywhere. And since I married Mike, I have learned that this is perfect deer hunting weather. That is fall!

But then I was driving home between Pocatello and Twin Falls and then home. First I saw the hoards of green semi trucks loaded with sugar beets traveling between American Falls and Twin. And then I even passed a couple of fields where they were harvesting beets. That brought back memories. I quickly noticed a difference from when we harvested. They dug lots more rows at a time than we did and they loaded into semis!! Now I knew it was fall.

Near Twin Falls, I passed a corn silage pit. There was a tractor driving across the pit to tromp the corn down. Oh, yes, I remember those days. (I could tell several memories that quickly came to mind). Once again the harvesting equipment has been super-sized. It used to take us at least a couple of weeks to harvest our beets and then another couple of weeks or more to harvest the corn. Carl now harvests his corn in less than 2 days. Look at all the fun they are missing out on.   It is now a confirmed fact......it is fall.