> 0n (01 Nov 05) Barbara McNay wrote to Cindy Haglund...

 >>>> I was speaking in the present tense -- right now it
 >>>> pretty much sucks
 >>>> after 6pm to be out! :P :( (until the next glorious &
 >>>> beloved SUMMER!!!)

 >>>  BM> Oh, yeah, I forgot you're way up there.  Here it's
getting chillier a
 > t
 >>>  BM> night, too, in the 40's F.  But in the warm summer
evenings, we have
 >>>  BM> mosquitoes, especially if it has rained a lot recently.


 >> Same here. It was so warm sunday night as well as day,
 >> and  Monday
 >> morning surprisingly then it got cold when the storm
 >> moved in and we
 >> finally got our first hard rain in months. We don't
 >> get many skeeters
 >> where I am, not wet enough! :) But if you go where
 >> there's
 >> lake/river/creek and wear a coconut oil sun screen
 >> you're bound to
 >> attract them and the flies too. They're there, they
 >> just stay near
 >> water. We had a HUGE Grackles "Invasion" recently.

 >  BM> Wonder what they eat.  Maybe the crickets we've been invaded by.


 >  Hubby and I ate out doors at a favorite restaurant,
 > one lovely evening
 > last month (Finally cool enough! :) ))

 > You should have seent nose birds! It was like a scene
 > out of "The
 > Birds"... (Hitchcock Thriller). They'd flock back and
 > forth over the
 > restuarant area... That's where they're getting their
 > food. Scraps of
 > human's dining left overs left behind. This particular
 > patio was
 > partially covered enough so we were out o fharms way!
 > BOy they did an
 > number on our car though.

 > Haven't seen any in our neighborhod. They're mostly
 > hanging out around
 > the fast food strips and other restaurants.

 > (We do have crows and morning doves and what loosk
 > like sparrows here
 > but you neer see them in huge groups.

I've seen a few grackles, and, yes, they are around food places, including
grocery store parking lots.  We have whitewing doves around here, but not
sure about mourning doves.  I don't know whether I could differentiate
between a male grackle and a crow.

 > ...................

 >> They're being shot at
 >> in FW... It's been warming up into the seventies
 >> during the day when
 >> the sky is clear and chills to the forties at night.
 >> Ah. It's
 >> NOVEMBER!

 >  BM> Annoying in a way--I have to bundle up in the morning for the trip to
 >  BM> work, then take several layers off for the trip back home in the
 >  BM> sun-heated car.

 >  Same here! Can't dress for summer anymore, from dawn
 > to bedtime. Try
 > the layred look. :) Tank top under long sleeved Tee
 > and sweater. As
 > the day warms just peel off the layers... As for
 > pants, wear light
 > weight long pants.. That's what I'm doing anyways...

 >> Do you get huge amounts of wonderfully warm fleece
 >> everything in your
 >> stores down there? It's like you'd think we had a six

 >  BM> Dunno.  Probably.  I do my shopping online.

 >  Try Land's end. They've got some overstock fleece
 > ware marked WAY WAY
 > WAY Down in price. I'll send you a page in Email. I
 > got a nice fleece
 > jacket tha twas originally 39.00 bucks for 7.50! I
 > can't figure out
 > why other than it's the size. Petite. Rare gem! Maybe
 > wasn't selling
 > well. My first jacket that really fits right! It's
 > fleece in and
 > out... a light fleece for fifties weather. Nice! :)

$7.50 is cheap, indeed.  I must be shopping at the wrong times!

 >> month winter in
 >> the teens hehehe. Not that I'm complaining. I love
 >> fleece! Funny
 >> though I didn't 'discover' it until we moved south.

 >  BM> Fleece didn't become an "in" fabric until
relatively recently.  I like


 >  Ah. Thanks. Now I don't feel so duh.. you know? I
 > mean gee where was
 > I when I was living up north where it REALLY gets
 > cold! :) And stays
 > that way for six months at a time.

Fleece things generally are sort of casual looking, and casual is more
acceptable, now, for which I'm happy, as I like casual, relaxed fit.

 > You know how it is down here when even in the dead of
 > January the sun
 > will feel warm if the dastardly north wind isn't
 > blowing? Up north no
 > matter what, the sun seems to be so far far away and
 > offers no heat
 > except perhaps enough to melt the ... white stuff...
 > if any.

A few years ago, it was over 100F in February, around here.

 > You do know the famous sno/ice cycle up there? :)

 >  BM> it, too, but can only wear fleece pants around the house, as with my
 >  BM> arthritis, I need to be able to slide on chairs to get up and down.
 >  BM> Polyester knit slacks are good for that, but not as warm.

 >  I wore fleece pants (found them in the 'resale' bin
 > marked way down,
 > maybe they didn't fit the person who had bought
 > them)... yesterday
 > morning as I felt chilled. They realy are toasty! (of
 > course by noon I
 > was in shorts after a power walk with Abbie.)

 > BTW new 'meaning' for flower power here abouts! Those
 > developers dig
 > em all up and well hey there's some comin'right on
 > back up!!! Yey!
 > They attrack quite a lot of butterflies (which Abbie
 > loves to chase.)

 >>> just another false alarm. You can never tell for
 >>> sure!! hahahmm. :)

 >>  BM> True.  It was clear as a bell when I got to work, but I
took my rain
 >>  BM> jacket in anyway.  At 11, I couldn't see the sky, but it certainly
 >>  BM> wasn't gloomy and raining.  At 12:15, we were having a deluge and
 >>  BM> strong winds.

 >>  "They do say" at this time of year and in the
 >> spring... if you don't
 >> like the weather, wait ten minutes.  Yep we got the
 >> big windy and
 >> big rainy yesterday. Clear as bell today...

 >  BM> Yep.

 >  And warming up near eighty yet! Not time to give up
 > on summer!! not
 > yet!! nope!! I'm happy with that.

Looks like it's going to be a happy week for you, then. :)

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