Provided by Lowe'sWelcome fall: Put pots of mums on the patio, toss throws over outdoor chairs, start a fire, make s’mores.After a long Labor Day weekend spent visiting DC’s home town of Pittsburgh, where we attended his 40th high school reunion and toured assisted living facilities for his mom, who, by unanimous expert consensus, cannot safely live alone anymore, I was glad to get home and back to my perpetual state of denial. All that focus on people getting older (not me!), and time going by, was as sobering as an IRS audit. The next morning, while driving — and reassuring myself that I had time firmly under control — I stopped for a yellow school bus loading kids heading off to a new school year.