Wearing nothing but a t-shirt and shorts every day.
Going barefoot unless I absolutely have to put on footwear to leave my property.
Kayaking- for the last 5 years or so Mrs. solost and I have literally kayaked almost every weekend of every Summer.
Goin’ fishin”.
Camping in the great outdoors.
Sitting in my backyard with a good book, watching the critters go about their business.
Grilling / BBQing.
Swimming in one of the many lakes nearby.
Hanging out in my sister’s pool. (Checks weather report) “high of 91 today, eh? (Calls sister) hey sis, want some company? We’ll pick up a pizza.”
Sure, a lot of that stuff can be done in colder weather, and I do, but it’s more enjoyable on those lazy hazy days when the livin’ is easy. Oh well, the way the months go by at my age, Summer will be back soon enough.
No thank you! I hate Michigan winters, but I love our relatively mild summers (relatively mild still meant a lot of 90+ temps this past Summer). I also enjoy being surrounded by 70% of the world’s supply of fresh water.
With the exception of the lake swimming, you just described typical life year-round here in SoFL. We could swim in our lakes temperature-wise year-round, but the 'gators there are a downright nuisance,
Well, as a frozen Canuck, I can also appreciate the many benefits of winter:
It’s quieter. Even more so because the windows are always closed. And it’s both beautiful and exceptionally quiet after a fresh snowfall.
The garage is getting cold. Soon, I can start keeping bottled water and soft drinks out there, and put hot foods out there to cool prior to refrigerating.
The lawn and shrubs will stop growing. I no longer deal with them myself but now I can stop paying others to do it.
There are no more insects.
The garbage I throw into the outside garbage cart won’t grow mutant organisms due to hot weather.
The natural gas cost for heating is substantially less than the electricity cost for A/C.
As an official Old Fart, I tend to overheat with any sort of activity. In the winter, I can just open a window for refreshing coolness. In the summer, I’d have to turn the A/C down to a cooler temperature for the whole house.
Hockey season! Christmas!
The main disadvantage of winter is that at some point my super-convenient slip-on sandals will seem downright silly, especially in snow! That, plus having to put on a jacket to go out, is an inconvenience to one accustomed to sloth.
Minnesotan here and I’m already missing summer too. But there are a few things that make me smile with the change of seasons:
I no longer have to cut up a watermelon and 2 cantaloupes every week. They’re my main foods during the summer but what a pain to have to prepare. I had my last bite of both last Thursday. One less job for me!
In the summer, I feel like I have to be outside all the time. I eat, read, do crossword puzzles and anything else that I can do outside, that’s where I’ll be. I feel extremely guilty if I’m inside the house on a beautiful summer day. Now I can plop myself on the couch and watch TV on a Saturday afternoon with no guilt whatsoever.
As much as I love my summer clothes, sandals, and flip flops it feels kind of nice to slip on a cozy pair of sweats to lounge around in or layer a t-shirt under a nice cardigan for work.
No more overly air-conditioned restaurants or stores!!
As soon as the temps get to freezing no more muddy paws!
Ah, summer! The bitch is almost over. Just a few more days of LA’s melting, triple-digit weather that has scorched plants and people alike. Just another week or so of having the four rooftop ACs on the apartment complex two doors down render nearly half my living space unusable after about 15 minutes owing to the headaches I get from the electric din. And let’s not forget the summer swarm of spiders, fleas and sundry other insects making multiple meals out of me.
When I was a kid, summer was the best. No school ruled! As an adult, summer is the worst (and now with NO Choco Tacos!) I don’t miss its passing; I simply wish it had never come in the first place and would never come again.
VERY high in the Colorado mountains here. It’s certainly fall.
It’s sort of a two edge sword. In spring and fall with our passive solar house and the sun lower on the horizon, it can get very hot inside. My upstairs office is about 85 degrees right now. The sun at this elevation is really something. I have windows open and two ceiling fans running.
The temperature will drop like a brick as soon as the sun goes down. And then there’s the snow that is soon to come. No more hanging on the deck. And a lot of plowing and shoveling. But since COVID I work from home, that gets winters easier to deal with since I can plow in the daylight.
Winters are very, very long. We know how to hunker down though. Have a very good heat stove and we play a lot of chess and cribbage.
My Wife still has to drive into work because of the nature of her job. I worry about her. But we’ve been doing this for 30 years.
