>>> 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.

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

 > 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!

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

 > 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

Dunno.  Probably.  I do my shopping online.

 > 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.

Fleece didn't become an "in" fabric until relatively recently.  I
like it, too, but can only wear fleece pants around the house, as with my
arthritis, I need to be able to slide on chairs to get up and down. 
Polyester knit slacks are good for that, but not as warm.

 >> 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...

Yep.

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