Westland, It’s Almost Soup Weather
You know the day.
You walk outside in Westland one morning and for the first time in months you think, “Should I grab a hoodie?”
That's it.
Summer isn't technically over. Your air conditioner might even be running again three days from now. This is Michigan, after all.
But something has changed.
It's almost soup weather.
Suddenly chili sounds good again.
That Crock-Pot you haven't thought about since March is about to get promoted back to the kitchen counter.
Grilled cheese isn't just a sandwich anymore. It's soup's best friend.
And somehow a sleeve of crackers becomes a perfectly reasonable thing to demolish while standing over a pot on the stove.
Westland knows this feeling.
The first cool morning arrives and we're immediately thinking about hoodies, football, cider and whether it's too early to turn on the furnace.
Someone in your house will absolutely say yes.
Someone else will say, “Put on a sweatshirt.”
That's Michigan marriage counseling.
Of course, we also know better than to trust it.
Michigan will give us a beautiful 58-degree morning, convince everyone fall has arrived, and then casually throw an 82-degree afternoon at us just to make sure we're paying attention.
So don't put the shorts away yet.
But you can feel what's coming.
Soon the trees along Hines Drive will start changing. The cider mills will get busy. Friday nights will mean football under the lights. Saturday mornings will have that unmistakable chill in the air.
And somewhere in Westland, somebody is already standing in Kroger debating whether today is the day to buy chili ingredients.
The calendar says fall doesn't officially arrive until later this month.
Westland knows better.
Fall begins the first time you walk outside, feel that little chill and think:
“I could go for some chili tonight.”
