Autumnal Thoughts........

[GHT]

I'm just hoping we get some autumn/winter weather here in southern California this year (what we call autumn/winter weather, anyway). While most of the country was getting slammed with severe snow and rain storms last year, we got maybe 10 non-consecutive days of temperatures below 70°F and no rain to speak of. Otherwise it was business as usual--hot and dry. :eusa_doh:

My heart bleeds.

What I hate about the end of July is the end of summer. Of course it's not the end of summer, in the northern hemisphere, in this part of Europe, we are blessed with the north atlantic drift that warms our Island, so August is always deemed a summer month. But you know, our summer solstice was June 21st and that was six weeks ago, we shall indeed enjoy August, but at the end of it, is the last public holiday here in the UK before Christmas. Come September, we will see restaurants, hotels and various other eateries, all screaming at us to: "Book now for Christmas!" Whenever I see that, an old Anglo Saxon profanity swirls around my head. Being in logistics for most of my life, I'm quite used to the wholesale market pushing Christmas during the summer. And the retail market only being a few weeks behind. But it's so depressing, when covering a driver, to deliver a pallet of Christmas crackers into a department store, on the first of September, to be told, that every box on the pallet has already been sold! I'm tempted to say Merry Christmas, but flat-top wants the thread kept on track.

 

[flat-top]

Lol yes...

 

[DesertDan]

We get the odd huntsman spider which seriously gives me the s**ts but nothing that half a can of fly spray won't sort out!

Great Caesar's Ghost!!
If a monster like that were to appear in my house I assure you there would be a very manly scream followed by a furious barrage of gunfire!

 

[Horace Debussy Jones]

Geeze,....a good reason to have a Bug - A - Salt handy!

 

[GHT]

 

[Zombie_61]

My heart bleeds...

I realize it sounds like whinging, especially compared to some of the weather experienced in other parts of the world, but 85-105°F temperatures with 50-75% humidity day after day after day get to be as tiresome as snow or rain day after day after day, especially when the region in which you live is experiencing the worst drought in recorded history.

 

[HudsonHawk]

I realize it sounds like whinging, especially compared to some of the weather experienced in other parts of the world, but 85-105°F temperatures with 50-75% humidity day after day after day get to be as tiresome as snow or rain day after day after day, especially when the region in which you live is experiencing the worst drought in recorded history.

I would kill to have that kind of weather day in and day out. That kind of low humidity would be a nice change from the 95-105 degree/95-99% humidity for weeks on end.

 

[Formeruser012523]

I realize it sounds like whinging, especially compared to some of the weather experienced in other parts of the world, but 85-105°F temperatures with 50-75% humidity day after day after day get to be as tiresome as snow or rain day after day after day, especially when the region in which you live is experiencing the worst drought in recorded history.

You too, huh? DFW's just now out of "Exceptional Drought," but still in drought conditions. What's the difference? [huh]

 

[jamespowers]

I'm just hoping we get some autumn/winter weather here in southern California this year (what we call autumn/winter weather, anyway). While most of the country was getting slammed with severe snow and rain storms last year, we got maybe 10 non-consecutive days of temperatures below 70°F and no rain to speak of. Otherwise it was business as usual--hot and dry. :eusa_doh:

And you are complaining because?!

 

[jamespowers]

Great Caesar's Ghost!!
If a monster like that were to appear in my house I assure you there would be a very manly scream followed by a furious barrage of gunfire!

No screaming here just straight out gunfire. Another creature we get in the house due to Evil Autumn. :doh:

 

[jamespowers]

You too, huh? DFW's just now out of "Exceptional Drought," but still in drought conditions. What's the difference? [huh]

Depends on who benefits most politically I guess.

 

[Zombie_61]

Well, we finally got a little rain overnight here in southern California. It was a light rain, but it lasted a while; enough to give the lawns a nice dousing, but have no effect whatsoever on the drought. [huh]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Well, we finally got a little rain overnight here in southern California. It was a light rain, but it lasted a while; enough to give the lawns a nice dousing, but have no effect whatsoever on the drought. [huh]

And humid as hell. I was already dripping at 6:00 AM! And I must be crazy because I went on a bike ride in Long Beach with a vintage bike group in this same humidity.

 

[Formeruser012523]

And humid as hell. I was already dripping at 6:00 AM! And I must be crazy because I went on a bike ride in Long Beach with a vintage bike group in this same humidity.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I believe the guy who built the Pee Wee Herman bikes for the movie is in our group.

 

[vintageTink]

Well, we finally got a little rain overnight here in southern California. It was a light rain, but it lasted a while; enough to give the lawns a nice dousing, but have no effect whatsoever on the drought. [huh]

Up here in Frazier it rained most of the day.

 

[jamespowers]

I believe the guy who built the Pee Wee Herman bikes for the movie is in our group.

Why am I not surprised?

 

[jamespowers]

Well, we finally got a little rain overnight here in southern California. It was a light rain, but it lasted a while; enough to give the lawns a nice dousing, but have no effect whatsoever on the drought. [huh]

That is like a fake Hollywood movie rain then.

 

[Matt Crunk]

I believe the guy who built the Pee Wee Herman bikes for the movie is in our group.

Speaking of Pee Wee, I'm still wondering if Paul Reubens wasn't influenced for the Pee Wee character by this guy from the 1948 film Hollow Triumph (also known as "The Scar"). The likeness is uncanny at any rate.

 

[jamespowers]

Speaking of Pee Wee, I'm still wondering if Paul Reubens wasn't influenced for the Pee Wee character by this guy from the 1948 film Hollow Triumph (also known as "The Scar"). The likeness is uncanny at any rate.

That would mean Paul Rubens would have some sense of history and nuance. Uh, I doubt it.