summer's almost over

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Ed Mashburn

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Good morning to all- I was taking Daisy the house pig out for her after breakfast morning walk, and I noticed from a lot of different indicators that summer is really winding down.
The citrus trees are heavy with growing fruit- lots of tangerines and oranges this year. The pecan leaves are starting to look droopy and tired- funny how pecan trees are the last to get their leaves in spring and the first to drop them in fall.
The days are starting to get shorter in length- a month ago when I took pig out, the sun was up and the day was going- now, it's just starting to get light.
Of course, the biggest indicator of summer being over is that our daughter who is a teacher is going back to school full time today.
I am SOOO glad I'm retired. I was a teacher for nearly 40 years, and there toward the end of my career, I dreaded the first day of school- looked forward to seeing the kids, but I dreaded the extra duties, after school meetings, campus duty, game duty, breaking up fights...
So, how do you know summer is over at your house?
Good day to all- Ed
 

Loved night sailing and there was a definite change in the sky around the middle of August...
 
I see no indication yet, everything is very lush and green, we've had lots of rain and lots of very hot hot sun. Looking forward to fall.
 
It has been so hot and humid in Jersey, I'm glad to see it go. I am starting my fall cleaning now so I can really enjoy the fall weather. This time of year we hear a lot of crows and the locusts are in abundance and very loud a sure sign fall is on it's way.Hopefully we won't have an Indian summer.
 
It's been very hot here for quite awhile. Today was the first really nice day in awhile. I can open the windows and don't have put the AC on, maybe that's a sign that Autumn is coming? But I think we are still in for some hot weather since it's August. The neighbor has tomato plants and can't wait to see them.
 
The weather we're having now, 72/sunny/breezy, is what we pay for by enduring winter. I wish we could have six months of Maine summers, three with tourists, and three without.
 
The evenings are cooler, if I sit out with the pup in the yard after 7pm now, I usually put on a flannel. Looking forward to fall, one of my favorite seasons...don't like the heat at all!
 
I'm trying to ignore the changes. Autumn has always been my favorite season but as I get older I find myself wanting to hold onto summer for a longer time, heat and all.
 
I have a clear view of the sun when it rises so the position of the sun and shadows is an indicator. There is a different hue that is quite noticeable. I live in an area that gets quite humid, so fall is my favorite time of the year.
 
I'm ready for cooler weather, not that this summer has been too bad; upper 90s & low 100s for a couple months, non-stop.

I would sleep better if overnight temps were 10 degrees cooler.
 
Here until people start the fireplaces and burning leaves...all the flowers have bought the farm...then it is Fall. Usually late Oct.
 
On Sunday we had pretty bad gales. Winds reaching around 50mph in my area and worse further north. The temps are a little lower but not noticeably. However, it does feel like things are changing. I like autumn and look forward to it arriving. Summer is my least favourite time of the year, so I never miss its passing. However, we have been threatened with a heatwave next week - hopefully we will miss that.

The garden has not been great this year. A result of a very wet and wild winter, I think. Spring was better and it seemed that for weeks I had to water my garden. Then it changed! Summer was not so dry and that too affected the garden. For almost all of the summer I have been trying to patch a piece of lawn. Seed will just not germinate properly or evenly. So, I am hoping that my last effort of the weekend will work, or it will now need to wait until next year.
 
Butterfly- Daisy the Pig has never seen snow. Indeed, most people native to the Gulf Coast of Alabama have never seen snow, either.Just judging by her reaction to rain and wet underfoot- or underhoof in her case, I don't think she would like snow at all.
She likes warm weather just fine. She likes to go out in the yard, find a soft spot and collapse for a while until she gets too hot. Being a very black pig, she soaks up a lot of heat energy quickly.
She also shed all of her bristles in summer- she becomes a naked pig. As fall progresses, her bristles come back and she becomes a shaggy pig.
good day to all- Ed
 
Yes. And the conversations here are gradually drifting towards winter food aka soups and stews
 

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