The “Autumnal Equinox” happens at 3:18 tomorrow afternoon so tomorrow will be breakfast in summer and supper in fall. Although we won’t be able to tell by the weather. This is the July we missed in July. It’s confusing because we’re not sure when we should blow out our lawn sprinklers or put away the the lawn mowers.
Maybe just maybe we’ll be able to get a head start on next year. In looking back, this will be the warmest September on record for here. I knew something was up when I noticed the lack of geese flying south lately. They’re either smart enough to have known that summer was actually going to be August and September this year.
To think they don’t have to go south. I hope its not the latter because then they’re all gonna die! We hear stories of an El Nino in the Pacific which normally means a mild winter and I hope it’s true.
Up here I believe we deserve a milder, shorter winter for a change. One thing is for certain, you can no longer predict the traditional seasons with any certainty.
July and September trading months, who would have thought? If we get lucky, perhaps we’ll have an “Aug-tober”, then September in November, Christmas in the month of “Oct-cember” and start the new year with “June-uary”.
But don’t count on it.
LOL - I love your new calendar idea!! Down here in Florida, it's just nearly always summer. We cool off in late December, January and February... then back to hot. It will be interesting to see if we cool down at all this winter!
ReplyDeleteOne has to think in this way and really all in all it we shall see what all happens within the new season. Why not! As literally the geese have not yet left, and this was my slant on what can be in a climate of this last summer. Tomorrow will be a "half and half" day! :) And we might just get an “Aug-tober”...which is just fine!
ReplyDeleteAhhh it is all good. Well for me it just pulls the curtains on another wonderful view. Always getting better than the last. The geese have been showing up here again too. They are getting ready for another winter floating on moses lake. Now I am going to have another fun fall. Got to love it.
ReplyDeleteRandy you do, this has been a very different year but who's to say what will be with the weather. But within it all it is all good.
ReplyDeletehahaha.there must be cool to have something not following the tradition.maybe the new calender should be published soon so that the Santa Claus can come on time for christmas.LOL
ReplyDeletePerhaps Smiling...
ReplyDeletePerhaps a good time to bid life farewell?
ReplyDelete2012 is fast approaching. We will have to see how life leads up to it. Could tell us everything.
ReplyDeleteIt's the hottest September I can remember up here. Going to be 102* tomorrow. I just love the new Fall weather!
ReplyDeleteWe are getting some more 90s temps here too this week. Its not over yet. LOL
ReplyDelete*chuckles* I like that!
ReplyDeleteSo playful, jack! *chuckles*
ReplyDeleteAnd the picture is gorgeous!
We are having a very early Summer this year in South Africa .... temps up in their 30s already. We had a very early winter this year, and I hope that you winter will take its time.
ReplyDeleteWell I hope winter stays away for a long while yet lol-or we will go visit Annette lol
ReplyDeleteThis was a funny post with a dose of seriousness,enough to make us think. Because we are in Spring here, we can go either way, hot or cold days, but, we have had storms and lots of rain which is a good thing for our very dry State. We have had hail storms too! Our farmers seem to be happy enough and the gardens are loving the wet. So it seems to me I will have no choice but to go with the flow of the weather nature is intending for us right now...personally speaking I could do with some more warmth. lol.
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ReplyDeleteSplendid photo.
We usually have to keep mowing in October and sometimes give it a once over in December, then in February, March, the grass is green and thick. We are having very nice autumn weather now, no frost yet, sometimes we can get to November before it frosts if we get past this time without it.
our weather here in Vermont has been strange as well this year- but then it seems every year is different and so is everyone's perception of "normal" I try to take it as it comes, I enjoy the variety and can take as much pleasure from a rainy day as a sunny one. take care and happy autumn!
ReplyDeleteI love it as well Doug we have had the strangest weather in the last 100 year but as far as for this season of Autumn that we shall be bring in, I am more than please if it mimics an ordinary August - hence reference to the humour.
ReplyDeleteRandy here it's 80 today it, It never over till the Gay Eskimo sings! (Not that there is anything wrong with gays or with eskimo's) :)
ReplyDeleteIt's the truth...:)
ReplyDeleteWhy not and you have to have a good frame of mind when it come to living up here in Canada.
ReplyDeleteI know your the complete opposite to over here. We shall see Annette - I love the temperature to be between 25 and 30 just two years ago I loved it when we would have weather (one summer) where it went well into the hi 40's. Everyone was complaining yet I was thriving on it. This year it's been up and down and then in August we finally had our weather that was really embraced as it was very much like July. So......hope and light!
ReplyDeleteMind you this is the day that there is equal day and equal night.
I am not sure I would far out so well in South Africa, I would have all these animals chasing me around I think :).
ReplyDeleteI think I would be running when ever I saw some of these animals. As it seems that there are all sorts of things going
on at that cottage of hers --- but Heidi, shhhhh. :)
Maybe Italy might be a nice change of pace, or for that matter if the globe could just be turned a little we would have
no winter and that would be just right for me! But we do not control the universe, we flow along with it.
Here it's a very dry province probably the driest on in all of Canada. But in June and July we had so much rain and unpredictable weather that it was far beyond the norm. The farmers here can't complain Milli, but they always do. It's the mindset of the farmer. A farmer can have the best crop of the year and yet when you has them how good it was they I have yet to here one say "it was good", at best it's usually "well........(with a long pause) I think we might make out ok this year.
ReplyDeleteYet how many of the farmers here have one house out on the farm, one in the city and head of to British Colombia, Arizona, Mexico, or Florida - as they do very well but would never say it. I know there have been bad years but you touched on a topic that I find a farmer is never one that will show how pleased they are. It's a culture onto it's own.
As far as the real hot weather we had this year I found that it was such a drastic change from on day to the other that it was very hard to deal with but I am not that old, I remember as Susan from Georgia that did a write on why some people can't deal with really hot weather and this year was one of those kind of times for me. As well for others. Yet just this last Sunday, I went to fill up with gas and there we three older me and two older ladies filling up with gas, all were wearing shorts whereas I had my jeans on along with socks. However they got wet but all in all you take it as it comes...:)
Thanks for the acceptance Mills..
Jack
Oui, your in a different longitude grid on this globe my dear. I would make as guess that you would be close to the same weather that takes place in Maryland within the United State from the east or the upper state of California on the west on this side of the pond.
ReplyDeleteI could be wrong but I believe this time last year frost hit Quebec and Virginia, but frost usually comes here as it's a large country in Saskatoon we will usually really get it in November and as the saying goes "It comes in comes in like a lion and out like a Lamb." It would be interesting if it never did come at all.
The jpeg was from the web not mind but seemed fitting.
Normality with our weather is something that last year I had to study in doing what I do within the work I went into. Right now we are going through a change due to what is happening with our jet streams only due to the melting ice up in the Arctic as well as in the Anartic. We are in the midst of a different cycle, those of us that have the four seasons. So look at the watch and at 3pm, it's time to look at your surrounds and welcome in Autumn.
ReplyDeleteIt can be one of the best that we have this year regardless of where we live.
Beautiful picture there I'm getting ready to go to Michigan for 2 weeks on Friday so starting then I will be on multiply little to nothing but I'll blog my heart out when I get back! Have a great week
ReplyDeleteI watched the framers sheep today, they had come "home" from a summer spent in the mountains. the leaves were blowing in the wind. rain was pouring down
ReplyDeletei knew, it's fall again, no doubt.
Love that photo! I am in Wisconsin so Fall is here and Winter shall soon follow. The temps are dropping already and the leaves changing. I am not ready for snow!
ReplyDeleteAll the best to you as I have gotten a new camera and I think this one is going to take some time to figure out. So a great week to you there Cheryl as well the best to you in your trip back to your roots.
ReplyDeleteRight now with all that is going on for me I have just been working half time but ironically today Amalie it's going all the way up to nearly 30c.
ReplyDeleteAnd I could of and should have but I have a new toy right now effectively today.
Not ready here either and I have taken one hour to just test this Nikon and I warm going to take my time with it. Sometimes you just have to say why not Danni...
ReplyDeleteAll that I have realized is that I have to have a good program to go with this too, and I have a three year warranty and as well a trial period of three days.
It might just be a new avenue as the newspaper has approached me - better now that later.
With the weather all I can say is this feels right now like August. My hopes are that it stays for a while....
Happy Autumn.............one of my favorite times of the year.
ReplyDeleteLovely photo.
This one is not mine ...but it fit within this time of the year and welcome there Nancie to Autumn..
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo.
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