Struggling to let go of summer

It almost seemed criminal!
That was how I felt as I spent Thanksgiving Monday getting my place ready for winter.
Now normally it is a feeling of acceptance. Accepting the fact that winter is coming and the summer is over.
But when the weather for the past week pushed well into the 70s and the sun shone all week, I felt like a criminal preparing the house for the winter.
I needed to move left over firewood from last year out of my garage so I could put my deck furniture away. But I found myself saying, "Why am I putting firewood in the wood box in the house? It is like summer outside!"
I did get the wood moved and the space is ready to accept the furniture. But call it "my love of summer" that would not let me believe the use of the furniture is done for the year.
I pushed the furniture to the side of the deck so I could put my wood hauling ramps on the deck. But I did not put it away.
Then yesterday morning I awoke to the gloomy, fall looking, clouds and had to donne a fall jacket to walk to work for the first time in more than a week.
Maybe it was time to put summer behind me. But then I checked the forecast for the rest of the week and it looks like it is going to be in the 60s this weekend! Maybe I will get to enjoy sitting on the deck a while longer even if there are no leaves left on the trees and the nights are getting colder.
–Until then, Ken