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 at
 >>  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.
...................

 > 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! :)

 > 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.

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.

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.

Cinders

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