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No cozy pumpkin spice in the South
« on: September 23, 2023, 05:05:52 PM »
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  • Just 2 hours 20 minutes until sundown -- and yet, still triple digits!

    Pumpkin spice? We could bake pumpkin pies on the sidewalk today.

    Yes sir, the Northern states seem to dominate our culture. No one in Texas thinks "Oh darn, for better or worse, Summer is over... It's after Labor Day after all."

    I have to laugh when national chains (Home Depot, Lowe's) clearance off their box fans, etc. EVEN IN TEXAS because "Hey, it's Fall! It's after Labor Day!" Corporate dictates when the seasons change. And guess where Corporate is located? Not in the South, apparently.

    We open our windows in December and let fresh air in. No heating is necessary until January, and Winter usually lasts 3-6 weeks.

    We might be able to turn off our A/C *occasionally* starting the 3rd week of October. That's the norm.

    In a similar vein, we haven't seen temperatures below 70 yet. It's not brisk or Fall weather if you never see temps below 70. Not even in the middle of the night, or right before sunrise.

    That having been said, I'm looking forward to fall. Or at least high temps below 100. It's been a very long, very hot Summer, even for Texas. Oh, and a very dry one. We are *way* behind our normal rainfall.

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    Offline Quo vadis Domine

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    Re: No cozy pumpkin spice in the South
    « Reply #1 on: September 23, 2023, 05:43:59 PM »
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  • I wouldn’t doubt that the conspirators are going to drastically limit the use of A/C under the guise of protecting the environment from the fake threat of global warming. This in turn will force many people to move north. With the lack of adequate housing, most of them will be then forced to live in small apartments.
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    Re: No cozy pumpkin spice in the South
    « Reply #2 on: September 23, 2023, 06:53:20 PM »
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  • Texas probably doesn’t sound bad if you’re on the central east coast.  According to my sister, they’ve got two more days of temps. around 50, but feel more like 40’s, intermittent downpours, strong, gusty gale winds, very high surf, coastal flooding, especially at high tide, and dangerous rip currents.  She’s already lost power twice today for about an hour due to trees and limbs ripping down wires.   

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    Re: No cozy pumpkin spice in the South
    « Reply #3 on: September 23, 2023, 07:54:24 PM »
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  • And it wouldn’t sound to bad those who live in Marble Bar (WA)i where during December and January, temperatures in excess of 45 °C (113 °F) are common, and the average maximum temperature exceeds normal human body temperature for six months each year.

    Then there is Coober Pedy where 60% of the population have made their homes in dugouts ( underground houses). Even the churches are underground.
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    Re: No cozy pumpkin spice in the South
    « Reply #4 on: September 23, 2023, 08:24:06 PM »
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  • I’ve heard of Coober Pedy!  I think it was on a travel show that was later put on YouTube.  I don’t think I’d like it!  I much prefer a cold climate, like the Russian taiga!  (But not a gulag.  I once heard Fr. Joe Pfeiffer jokingly remark that his brother’s (Fr. Tim) idea of a vacation was two weeks in a Soviet gulag!)  


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    Re: No cozy pumpkin spice in the South
    « Reply #5 on: September 23, 2023, 09:22:13 PM »
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  • Just 2 hours 20 minutes until sundown -- and yet, still triple digits!

    Pumpkin spice? We could bake pumpkin pies on the sidewalk today.

    Yes sir, the Northern states seem to dominate our culture. No one in Texas thinks "Oh darn, for better or worse, Summer is over... It's after Labor Day after all."

    I have to laugh when national chains (Home Depot, Lowe's) clearance off their box fans, etc. EVEN IN TEXAS because "Hey, it's Fall! It's after Labor Day!" Corporate dictates when the seasons change. And guess where Corporate is located? Not in the South, apparently.

    We open our windows in December and let fresh air in. No heating is necessary until January, and Winter usually lasts 3-6 weeks.

    We might be able to turn off our A/C *occasionally* starting the 3rd week of October. That's the norm.

    In a similar vein, we haven't seen temperatures below 70 yet. It's not brisk or Fall weather if you never see temps below 70. Not even in the middle of the night, or right before sunrise.

    That having been said, I'm looking forward to fall. Or at least high temps below 100. It's been a very long, very hot Summer, even for Texas. Oh, and a very dry one. We are *way* behind our normal rainfall.

    On a light hearted note, enjoy some memes!
    First time I was in MS was near Hallowe'en. Temps still in the 90s. Whoa, said I. Whew, said I. Shoot, we have had snow on the ground for many an All Hallows waaaaay up here. By next weekend we might be in the 40s for a few days. Hello to the Great White North.

    It has been a good harvest for pumpkins this year up here. Our Thanksgiving is of course in early October, but everything orange is geared for Oct 31. Cheap pumpkins though will make for a great pumpkin shoot em and blow them up funfest this October.


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    Re: No cozy pumpkin spice in the South
    « Reply #6 on: September 23, 2023, 10:22:06 PM »
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  • I’ve heard of Coober Pedy!  I think it was on a travel show that was later put on YouTube.  I don’t think I’d like it!  I much prefer a cold climate, like the Russian taiga!  (But not a gulag.  I once heard Fr. Joe Pfeiffer jokingly remark that his brother’s (Fr. Tim) idea of a vacation was two weeks in a Soviet gulag!) 
    I visited Coober Pedy in my 20’s on a bus tour, and remember the dust rather than the heat. But i do love the desert. 

    When in Alice Springs (a place of extremes) some of us slept in a park in our sleeping bags. In the morning I was covered with a sheet of ice, but I wasn’t the least cold in my sleeping bag.

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    Re: No cozy pumpkin spice in the South
    « Reply #7 on: September 24, 2023, 04:09:08 AM »
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  • I had to start a fire in the wood stove last night. 


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    Re: No cozy pumpkin spice in the South
    « Reply #8 on: September 24, 2023, 08:11:11 AM »
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  • A week ago it was 90’s.   I drank iced pumpkin spice coffee.  Now it is cool outside and rainy. 

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    Re: No cozy pumpkin spice in the South
    « Reply #9 on: September 24, 2023, 09:10:30 AM »
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  • Had a low of 48 last night, currently 64, high today 73 in MI

    You can keep that heat. I like TX but I like the change of seasons more.

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    Re: No cozy pumpkin spice in the South
    « Reply #10 on: September 24, 2023, 06:31:19 PM »
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  • A week ago it was 90’s.  I drank iced pumpkin spice coffee.  Now it is cool outside and rainy.
    Time for piping hot pumpkin spice coffee!  You’re in NJ, right?  You’re getting the outer edges of a rather large former hurricane, same as my sister in NY.


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    Re: No cozy pumpkin spice in the South
    « Reply #11 on: September 24, 2023, 07:10:12 PM »
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  • I visited Coober Pedy in my 20’s on a bus tour, and remember the dust rather than the heat. But i do love the desert.

    When in Alice Springs (a place of extremes) some of us slept in a park in our sleeping bags. In the morning I was covered with a sheet of ice, but I wasn’t the least cold in my sleeping bag.

    Life against the odds in Australia's underground town - BBC REEL

    Yes, that’s the show I saw!  Interesting to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there! 
    Your description of Alice Springs reminds me of a trip in the 1990’s close to where I live for now.  It was mid-August, the warmest it gets in northern Maine. I was on my way home from car/tent camping and saw on the map it was more direct to enter Quebec from Maine and drive southwest back into NY.  It never occurred to me the border in the logging lands wasn’t open 24/7. It’d been a hot day, 90 F (32 c) in the afternoon.  I arrived at the border around 5:15 PM only to find it closed until 8:00 AM next morning. So I drove back a short distance to a small pull-off on the dirt road and set up my tent.  About 3:00 AM, I awoke, freezing cold.  Turning on my flashlight, I could see my breath.  I’d gone to sleep in a sweat suit and old canvas sneakers, on top of my sleeping bag rather than inside it.  But I was well equipped, knowing northeastern US!  I hurried to the car to get my kerosene lantern, metal cracker container with rocks, down filled boiled wool blanket, woolen beret, woolen Navy pea coat. Upon unzipping the tent, I was amazed to find about 2” of fine, dry snow on the ground and it was still “spitting” tiny flakes. I consulted the thermometer keychain and was amazed to see a reading of 20 F (-7 c.)!  A 7O degree change in temperature in five or six hours is quite the contrast!  Once I set up my cold camp, after a few minutes, I was toasty warm and overslept until 10:00. The snow was gone, the sun out, the temp back up to about 55 F (13 c.). That day was much cooler, the high temp about 68 (20 c.) and sunny.  I struck camp, passed smoothly  through customs, and arrived home. 
    I much prefer a place with definite change of seasons, four of them, not two!  (Dry and Rainy, always hot or Dark and Light and always cold!)