Snowedin

Considering how low the sun angle is right now, this might as well be Orlando in mid Jan lol. It felt just insanely nice out there yesterday and I’ll take this weather just about any time of year. Maybe we can keep the love train going through t-day and perhaps into the early part of dec when the SAD is just about at its peak.

Funny you mention that. I happened to stumble across a skinny snake as I was trekking the woods earlier and that little dude was staring right up at me. Tried to remember how the late, great Steve Irwin would handle that situation and slowly backed away. It was probably just typical garden snake basking in a sunny opening but it’s def not something you expect to run into this time of year.

Feels like a late summer evening out there. It’s awesome but just a little strange when you remember what the date is. Which begs the question, what is our actual average supposed to be in light of these wild anomalies? Either way, I’m just embracing this surge while it lasts..it makes doing anything outside that much more enjoyable!

63 here..we late august now! I’m really start to like this whole climate change business going on, sans the desert like environment of the Southern California that we’ve turned into lately. A few good soakers in the coming weeks would be fantastic.

Probably chillier now than it’ll be in the middle of the winter season for much of the area. Thank the high heavens for some moisture coming tomorrow too, we need it badly! Starting to see a few dust clouds flying along the sides of the street lol.

Days and days without showers and baths coming up. We may have to learn to embrace our inner stankness in these trying times.

I’m sure we’ll see a few coming out of the woodwork on Christmas Eve, perhaps a few moths mixed in as well.

I’d take weather like this any day right up until the early spring..maybe add on another hour of daylight and some much needed moisture and we’ll be just about perfect! All in due time of course.

Glad we ain’t there!

Indeed and hopefully many days of chilly wind swept rain mixed in with the occasional warm infusion from the south. Ah the winter of yore never fails to disappoint!

Glad we don’t live there!

It’s great to see even just a small amount of moisture around here. My hand needed a bit of a break from watering some newly planted grass. That plus all the late blooming plants were starting to get a little dried out. Hopefully we can get another boost in a few days or so.

Can’t believe how many bees are out there still doing their business at some of the flowers. It’s really great to see at this point in the season. Sadly I pulled a few dazed honeybees out of my birdbath that looked like they were on deaths door, perhaps they had a little too much to drink! I think they all managed to make it except for one that was still a little tipsy as I was heading back inside. It was an interesting afternoon to say the least with all the crazy birds and the bees in our yard!

Man I know I probably sound like a broken record at this point but that modeled setup always reminds of our typical early spring climate while much of the rest of the country is baking and yet we’ll have that little zone of suckage parked right over us. It’s absolutely ridiculous and even a toddler could practically predict its inevitable arrival to the very day.

And less than 3 months until we start gaining daylight again. One step at a time baby.