Me, I swapped bathrobes yesterday – the light cotton one wasn’t cutting it, time for the fleece.
It starts getting dark at 5:30 instead of 7 and light at 7 instead of 5:30. I have to turn the AC off when I get up in the morning.
I exchanged the light cotton bedspread for the comforter. And then we had a warm spell and I ran the A/C.
The Asian lady beetles swarming to get indoors are another sign. They’re not as bad this year as years past though.
Not that we have winter here but the heater came on for the first time a couple of mornings ago.
My dogs start sleeping in the bed, rather than under it.
I broke out the electric blanket last night, and am wearing sweats (and slippers!) around the house instead of the usual t-shirt and pj bottoms.
Still haven’t turned the heat on, though.
It smells like Christmas. What? That’s what I call it when I walk outside and there is that distinctive winter scent- a mix of fireplaces and a few other things that I’d be pressed to name.
When it officially becomes too cold to get in the pool. That will happen this week.
No birds singing in the early morning. We had a very chilly morning last week and it was silent outside when I woke up.
Winter??? Must we ignore fall? Just because there are Xmas decorations in the mall doesn’t mean we have to follow suit. Fall is coming. That’s why the heater when on this morning. That’s why I don’t mind leaving the house as much (god I hate hot weather). That’s why there’s that lovely crispness in the air. Can’t we get a little respect for autumn around here!!!
(Sorry, it just that it’s my favourite season…after the heat, before the snow.)
(Oh and I know winter is coming when frost appears on all the fallen leaves.)
We’re in fall – but winter is coming.
Me, I have two bathrobes – summer and winter. Two wardrobes, basically – summer and winter. I’ve gotten one or two things out of the guest room closet, where they’ve been stored all summer, but haven’t yet put the shorts away and gotten the sweaters out. Two basic approaches to bedding – sheet with one cotton blanket, then two, then three – then I give up and get out the down comforter. (I’m currently at two blankets and thinking about three.) The houseplants are inside or out. (They come in Labor Day weekend, so I don’t take it as seriously as a sign of winter.) Either screens or storm windows. (Haven’t switched yet.) Etc.
My world is a simple binary world, and winter is coming.
It’s fall, and winter is coming:
- Still wearing short-sleeve linen shirts and cotton twill pants to work… but have switched to sweatpants (instead of shorts) at home in the evening.
- Leaves are beginning to turn – and fall.
- Dinner tends toward “warm” food (casseroles, home-made clam chowder) instead of “cool” (pasta salad, grilling something outside)
- Screens are still in the windows but (and this is the BIG indicator) I turned the furnace on yesterday.
It’s fall, and winter is coming.
(And I’m glad! I’m much happier in “cold” than “hot”!)
The last round of hayfever switches over to the raspy cough occasioned by forced-air heating.
Actually, I love fall and winter, but last year and this have been very rough on my respiration in a way that makes me have to ponder my mortality.
When the s-word appears in the weather forecast. And it has. It’s predicted for this coming Wednesday and Thursday.
I hate winter.
Wow. They’re predicting first frost here.
Termination dust has been on the mountaintops for a couple of weeks. All the leaves are down (the leaves are down) and the sky is gray (and the sky is gray-ay).
Winter is coming when there is no more baseball. Once my beloved Yankees lose, the season has ended.
Found this definition of “termination dust” – i.e., the first dusting of snow, signifying that you can stick a fork in summer & fall – they’re done.
As for myself, I’ve ironed some long-sleeve shirts that have languished since spring, put the down comforter (but not the featherbed, not yet) on the bed and put a thermal blanket on the sofa, bought a ton of canned soups and a little tea, and am racing to paint the living room before it gets any chillier.
And I’ve stocked up on Tylenol. I’ll need that first to offset the effects of moving crap around to paint (and then moving it all back, oh joy), and later, to ease the aches of raking leaves and shovelling snow.
Best time of the year, here in S Florida. Starting to cool off, and hurricane season winding down. Yeah baby!
Um, it gets down to 75 overnight?