Fall is a melancholy time of year...

The BBQ Pit
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and I don’t like it.

Sure, sure…the changing colors in the leaves, the cool nights and crisp, windy days, wearing a jacket again…

Pfui.

No matter how much fun I’ve had, or how many fish I’ve caught, or how many times I camped under the stars, I miss summer.

Pretty soon the trees will again be barren, cold winds will start, the sky will take on that leaden look, and life out of doors will cease.

First, the rain. Cold, penetrating, wind-driven showers that seem to last for weeks. Those will alternate with ice-cold downpours that usually occur at rush hour…thereby doubling the drive time.

Then, as daylight shortens, I’ll wake up when it’s dark, work all day, and then drive home in the dark. Troglodyte.

Next, the snow. Oh, how pretty! Blech. The world shrinks when it snows. Your choices of walking area decrease by 99%…unless you really enjoy extreme aerobic exercise and cold, damp socks. Let’s not forget shoveling the stuff. My back hurts just thinking about it. And, oh yeah, driving will soon take on an air of adventure. I swear, the first time it snows, people seem to forget that it’s slippery. Every year it’s the same thing: the first snowfall and boom!..everybody into the ditch!

Finally, the cold sets in. Stinging, burning cold that seeps into everything. Air so cold your eyes water, and then your tears freeze. Your feet are never warm. Heating bills that look like Ivana Trump’s tab at the jewelry store. Wearing five layers of clothing just to stay alive. Cars won’t start. Fingers ache on the steering wheel. Icy sidewalks and intersections. Trying to decide if it wouldn’t be so bad to go hungry until tomorrow rather than getting all bundled up and drive to the grocery store in -10 degree weather.

Autumn is like a re-run of what was fun and a preview of the misery to come.

But, at least there’s football!

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Santa! Dammit man you forgot about Santa!

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I used to think Fall was the best time of the year.

Until I started fearing death. Now all Fall symbolizes to me is aging, death, and pointlessness.

Spring is now my favorite season. I hate the fact that Fall is drawing near. I know I will be very depressed until Christmas.

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Hell yeah kids!!!

Break out those Chouinard Sabertooths, Cobras, some screws, and spend winter break up near Bridal-Veil Falls. You really know how to cheer me up, Rysdad. Thanks for the booster.

Come on, winter cannot suck that much, can it?

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It all has to do with attitude.

Now, mind you I live in Oregon. Fall & Winter are constantly overcast and it is raining. I love it when the weather is like that. I moved here for that reason.
It generally doesn’t get below 40 degrees, people are more quiet, and the really fun thing is… I seem to be the only person around enjoying it, so I don’t get people coming up to me and bothering me to smile.

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Fall is definitely the pits.

The worst for me is starting to drive to work in the dark. It’s so depressing.

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I love fall. I love the colours. I love leaves blowing around my feet when I walk down the street. I love the cool crispness in the morning. I even like when the puddles first freeze over…

I love fall. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I love fall. It means winter is coming. Winter is my favorite season. It also means summer is over, and summer bites the big one. I HATE THE HEAT! I HATE THE SUN!!!

Give me the snow. I adore the snow. I adore cold weather. Snuggling in fuzzy blankies while watching the cold outside… sipping hot chocolate by the fire… sigh

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Always glad to lend a hand. :slight_smile:

Yes, it can. At least here in Minnesota. It sucks and blows.

Dear Opal and Angkins…I hereby bequeath you my winter. Which one of you gets the chapped lips, and which one wants the frostbite?

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I have to agree with OpalCat.
I love fall. It is great.
I love those 50 degree nights, sleeping with the windows open.
I love going for walks in the evening and crunching through leaves.
I love raking leaves.
I teach school, so I always go back to work in the fall, full of hope for the new year and new kids.
I love those crisp chilly mornings, seeing my breath.
I love sitting on the front porch with some hot chocolate or hot spiced cider or hot tea in the afternoon, while enjoying a good book.
I love going to the Amish farm market and getting fresh-pressed apple cider and warm apple pies and fresh apple butter.
As OpalCat said, it’s all a prelude to Winter, the BEST time of the year. I also love the snow and cold.

I hate the heat. I hate the humidity. I hate sweating. I hate getting in a car that is like a blast furnace. I hate running the daggone A/C all the time and having an electric bill that looks like a phone number.

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I live in Hawaii. There is virtually no visible difference between the seasons. I would kill for a real fall or winter here.

My friends in Oregon and Minnesota have sent me orange, red, and yellow oak and maple leaves, and they were among the prettiest things I’ve ever seen.

I love cold weather. I love snow and rain. I seldom experience anything that comes close to perfect cold weather, but when I do, it’s pretty hard to ruin my good mood.

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If you lived where I do, you’d probably be jumping for joy at the idea of fall. It’s so hot and humid here, pretty much all the way through, oh, say…November? that you’d think you were going to melt. Thanksgiving on picnic tables, outside, while wearing shorts? Christmas in short-sleeved shirts? Maybe a little cool weather in Dec-Feb, but only in short spurts, and only really cold 3 or 4 days a year? Phooey on summer. We only have too seasons. “Too damn hot”, and “okay, nice beach weather, but it’s Christmas, for God’s sake…”

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Fall rules. Winter is great. Summer SUCKS!!!

Spring is pretty cool.

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Fall doesn’t strike me either way, but Spring seems overrated.

Spring is overcast and damp and full of mud and the trees starting to get leaves are still just bare sticks compared to real trees.

And clumps of dirty ice everywhere, with three-month old trash melting out of it.

And the “first robin” never cheers me up. Always seems desperate, considering the ground is still brown everywhere.

Ah, Summer and Winter! Those are the times life was meant to be lived!

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Whoo hoo! It’s not just me! Opal! Kinsey! spooje! Trouble! I love you all!

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Funny, I just said the same thing about Spring.
Maybe it’s the rain I hate.
Come to think of it, Winter and Summer rains are the pits.
Great! Now I have no seasons to love.

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gasp heathen!!!
Rain is the ideal, perfect weather, after snow!

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People who don’t like cool autumns should come visit Northern California, where this is the hottest time of year. It hasn’t hit yet, but I know it’s coming: the September heat wave. It’ll be toasty warm a good way into October, too.

Personally, there is very little weather I don’t like. If it’s sunny and warm, that’s cool, and if it’s gray and rainy, that’s great, too! Actually, the rain probably perks me up more than the sun, and you’d feel the same way if you had spent the large majority of your life rationing water.

Uhh…Pit-thought, Pit-thought. Sorry, nothing comes to mind.

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Sure, if you’re an amphibian…or a yeti. (I’m not saying. I’m just saying.)

I love hot. Africa hot. The kind of hot that Tarzan couldn’t take (thanks, Biloxi Blues). Egg frying on the sidewalk hot. Steamy, sweltering hot. Parched, baked, sizzling hot.

So what am I doing in Minnesota?

Answer: Turning up the heat

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It was 111° F here in North Texas on Monday. We’ve had over 40 days of 100+ temperatures so far this year. We’re talking about days that are so hot that if it cools down to 95° by midnight, we think a cold front has moved through. We haven’t had rain for like 69 days. The grass is brown, the lake levels are low, the creeks are dry, the trees are dying. It’s so hot that you can literally bake cookies in your parked car.

You can have the summer. It ain’t all that it’s cracked up to be. I will gladly trade you a week’s worth of our August for a week’s worth of your October any time.