Spring went straight into summer. I was gone a week. I know summer still has five weeks to go but that is the way it seemed. The big lilac bush bloomed while I was gone. There was new growth all over the place. All this in a week. I noticed the two patio tomato plants grew quite a bit. I still have not carefully inspected the garden. I am sure there are other changes. It has become the time of year I just wear tee shirts and shorts. Pretty soon I will be putting back the air conditioner in the bedroom. We discarded the thick blanket and the fan ran all night.
Tags: air conditioner, fan on all night, flowers, garden, lilac bush, new growth, patio tomato, seasons, spring, summer, tee shirts and shorts, tomato plants, warm weather
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Last night could have been the coldest night left to the waning winter: supposedly the temperature hit zero last night. I keep checking the ten day forecast and there seems to be a warming trend–temperatures in the thirties and forties. Not warm by any means but winter has only three weeks to go officially. In one day and one week the clock gets put an hour later and all of a sudden it will be light till seven o’clock. The warm weather is on its way. This winter seemed to last forever. There is an end in sight to the colder temperatures.
Tags: coldest night left this winter, daylight saving time, spring is just ahead, thirties and forties a warming trend, warm weather, winter, winter seemed to last forever
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The summer is on its way out. Labor Day is today. I noted the low temperature last night was seventy. That might be the highest overnight for the rest of the year. We might have to wait until 2014 to see such temperatures at night. Already the highs are dropping to the seventies and the lows overnight are going to be in the fifties. Summer officially has a few weeks to go. The colder weather is coming. How depressing.
Tags: 70 degrees, autumn, cold weather, Labor Day, overnight lows, summer, Summer is winding down, warm weather
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It was only this week I switched to wearing only tee shirts and shorts. It finally got too humid and hot. I do not like being too warm. Every year this happens. Now for a few months that is what I will usually wear except for the cool days.
Tags: tee shirts and shorts, warm weather
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Spring is a day away although it feels like it had arrived early. By now the daffodils are blooming everywhere. The crocus are done. Forsythia are also blooming. The deciduous trees all have buds. I have already dug out my shorts. There were some days that warranted them. For a few weeks now it has been in the sixties and seventies. I have even wore my tee shirts although not every day was warm enough to do that. In a few weeks I will put out hummingbird nectar. I am shooting for April 1 to do that although I usually do not see them until the end of April. With the warmer weather maybe they will come sooner. We will see.
Tags: April, bird feeding, birds, crocus, daffodils, deciduous trees have buds, flowers, forsythia, hummingbird nectar, hummingbirds, shorts, spring, tee shirts, warm weather
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We are on the cusp of spring. The ten day weather forecast says every day will be at least sixty degrees and there might be one or two days that hits seventy. Today is sunny and warm and I want to go out to celebrate the spring that is coming. It is less than two weeks away. Let us see when the robins have all come back and are on everyone’s lawn searching for earthworms. This winter was mild and there was almost no snow. I just don’t tolerate cold weather too well any longer and I am awaiting the first seventy degree day.
Tags: almost no snow, bird-watching, birds, celebrate spring, cusp of Spring, don't tolerate cold weather too well, earthworms, mild winter, robins, spring, sunny and warm, ten day weather forecast, warm weather, winter
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The winter was perfect for the primrose. It was so mild the primrose never died and flowered throughout the whole winter. In the past there were seasons it bloomed twice–early spring and fall. Not this season. It bloomed throughout the whole winter and it appears it will continue through the spring. At least through early spring. It likes cold weather, but not warm weather. I have never seen the primrose do this. This indicates how mild the winter was this year. Usually an extended freeze kills it and then it comes up, again, the following spring. Just about every plant in the bed either has buds or is flowering.
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It was the old fashioned way. And it did not occur to me until I learned my dryer was not going to be fixed immediately. It had been out of service for at least a week and the service person had to order a part, which would take over a week to arrive. I was running out of clean underwear and socks and had become desperate. I had to improvise. First I had considered going to the nearest laundromat. That was twenty minutes away. Then I remembered I had clothesline so I strung it up. We were going to hit a good stretch of weather. It was going to be warm and no rain. My wife dug up some clothes pins so we were in business. This is the way people always dried their clothing (before the advent of electricity and driers). She was thrilled she could air dry her clothing and what did not dry was hung up in the bathroom overnight. This was the way it was always done at one time. It certainly was economical. We had to rediscover it. She was so thrilled. And I had clean underwear and socks again. And other clean clothing.
Tags: broken dryer, clean underwear, clothes dryer, clothes line, clothes pins, laundromat, laundry, service repairman, socks, the old fashioned way, warm weather
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There is nothing like being in the sunshine. After a week of gloomy, rainy weather today the sky was blue and it even hit seventy. My wife was depressed and tried to dispel her gloom. She took a chair, placed it in the sunlight and basked in it. It is too easy to be depressed when the weather is cold and the sun is far away. It was a perfect Autumn day and she decided to enjoy it and went out into our yard. Maybe later I will have a Scrabble game there. The days are running out I can do that. There is nothing like a clear, warm day to cheer you up.
Tags: autumn, blue sky, cheer you up, cold weather, depressed, gloomy rainy weather, my wife, Scrabble, sky was blue, sunshine, warm weather, yard
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Soon the hummingbirds will stop coming to my feeder. And will take the long journey south. I never know when I see the last one of the season but I will keep nectar out for a few more weeks for any stragglers. The “passing” of the hummingbirds is another sign the warm weather is out and the cold temperatures are on their way. I can become too used to their sight and they have to go away for me again to marvel at this creation of God. It will be April, again, before they come back. And I will await their arrival.
Tags: April, bird feeder, bird migration, bird-watching, birds, cold temperatures, creation of God, God, hummingbirds, long journey south, nectar, seasons, warm weather
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It slipped into summer while I was gone. I went camping for three nights. And then came home. Now I had to put on shorts and tee shirts. Someone threw a switch and it was summer when I came back. The temperatures were high eighties and it had become muggy. It was still a few weeks before the official advent of summer but don’t tell the weather. It acted as if it was summer already. And I had to dress accordingly.
Tags: camping, shorts and tee shirts, summer, warm weather
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I know spring has “arrived” when I pull out from my closet all my colored T shirts and put them in my clothes drawer. I exchange them for the insulated underwear there which now get stored back in the closet. I have so much room. When the warm weather is here to stay, I usually wear T shirts. It is just another sign the warm weather is here to stay. This happens every year.
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