#I used to look forward to that LL Bean catalog a lot more than I do now

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52 is my favorite number, when it's the overnight low temperature.

Pleasant daytime temperatures today. The last few nights were blessedly cool. I may need an extra blanket, because the windows stay open all night.

The LL Bean fall catalog arrived. It's not as thick as it used to be. "See other styles online." That saves paper and ink, I suppose, making Gaia happy. When online ordering got big, the catalog lost some weight and a bit of its luster to me. Then a Bean store opened in the Twin Cities. I can go there and touch stuff and not even have to buy it.

I'll probably look through this catalog once. 15 or more years ago the cover would eventually fall off because I paged through the catalog nightly as I watched TV. I marked pages of things I wanted. Sometimes I even placed an order.

Tonight's cocktail harks to warmer times. When the bottle of gin runs low I'll transition from ice cold martinis or G&Ts to brown liquor, usually bourbon and sometimes Scotch. Then maybe I'll see what Filson and Orvis have on their web sites.