As I type this, I am staring out at my frost-blasted garden…everything is dead, rotten, decaying. The leaves have fallen 9I spent two days raking them), and life is ebbing away. And those horrible gray skies…they seem to drop down on you! Man, what I wish for is a few sunny days! Here in Boston (latitude 42 N) the sun sets about 4:19, sunrise about 6:30 AM…and its going to get worse! We are still a good 30 days from the solstice!
Remember the lines form “MOBY DICK”? …“when all about is gray November, then it is when I must get to sea”
Tell me Spring will come! :smack:
As a Canadian now living in Florida, may I just take this opportunity to say:
[Nelson]
Ha ha!
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P.S.: It was real nice here today. Blue skies, mid-70s.
Today we had heavy fog, but it is pretty much cleared up just in time for a beautiful sunset. I’d say its in the 60’s, and here in California, this is the green season so everything is nice and green.
[Nelson]Ha, HA![/Nelson]
It was 70 here today. On my way to work I passed a woman wearing a miniskirt. She had excellent legs.
I love California.
Spring is springing around here!
As I look out my window, the sun is shining, and it’s shaping up to be a lovely day. The day before yesterday got so warm, I considered turning on my air conditioner at home for the first time since last summer…
I suppose though, in a month or so, I’ll be complaining about the heat…
Ha ha ralph! You had frost! Hahahahah!
We had frost here last week…with snow. Course the last three days have been sunny and in the fifties, but it’s cooling off again.
My weather has me confused. 
It used to be worse though. It used to snow on halloween.
Now ralph124c we have to do this season thing in order. First we must finish up with fall, and then have winter. Remember winter? That is when you will have all the snow and shoveling and slush and stuff. And then you can have spring.
Does that make you feel all better now?
*btw – we are having unseasonably warm days here in atlanta…cold nights, but bright sunshiny days…just in case you were wondering…, *
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came, and went and came, and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this desolation; and all hearts
Were chill’d into a selfish prayer for light
It must be time to dig the Horseradish. Yumm! 
November, being the month of my birth, is the greatest of all months.
September sucks pretty hard, though.
I agree with November, my birthday
Not with Sept, my son’s birthday.
I’d vote Feb. It’s cold, and it’s the start of my work’s busy season, in Feb and March, I usually end up working every other weekend. (Of course the pay checks in this period are usually pretty nice.)
I do a lot of griping about California on these boards, but I was just thinking tonight how remarkable it was that I was able to walk home from work after dark today, in mid-November, and I didn’t even really need the windbreaker I was wearing.
Ya know, it’s already started down here. The temperature has been in the mid-50s overnight, mid-60s in the mornings, and I have already seen people wearing parkas and gloves. A woman on the bus today at 11 AM had her kid dressed up in a sweater and a coat with a hood, and a wool hat underneath it. Outside the bus it was 74 freakin’ degrees. I was wearing a T-shirt.
To someone who spent 39 years in Canada, and who knows what -40F feels like, seeing this is either incredibly hilarious, or just plain baffling - I’m not sure which. It’s Florida! This isn’t cold fer Og’s sake! What would these people do in Winnipeg in February? Curl up and die?!?
While not my favorite month, November’s in one of my favorite seasons. I’ll take the cold darkness of winter over the hot brightness of summer any day.
I’d rather have the middling coolness of Autumn all year round though.
I’ll echo that. Around here, we still have plenty of sun mixed with the coolness, so I can’t lodge a complaint against this month.
August, on the other hand…
I’ll get in line to pit November. Dark. Cold. Sn*w (Oh, this the Pit–okay. Snow.) And then, December-the-Bleak. And then January-the-Drab. And then, omigod, February.
Can humans hybernate? Could I just go to bed now (yawn) and wake up in . . . April?
I too, wish that I could sleep from November to March! I think I must have that SAD thing-the short days and long nights really screw me up! But as I say, the bare trees and those leaden gray heavy skies…they just seem to depress you .
Man, I wish I could get away to the Southern Hemisphere!
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! - November!
- Thomas Hood
Well, there’s your problem. Perhaps you’d be better suited for the southwest?
Regarding SAD, aren’t there special lights that you can purchase to combat the symptoms of this?
Ahhh. I forgot my favorite season is coming up. You see, every year about now I’m offered nonstop entertainment from Bostoners and New Yorkers whining about the “frigid” weather when the temp gets below 30. <ooohh, it’s dangerous out there. Bundle up!!>
The reason for my glee at this is up here we often have weeks where the temp never gets about -10F and often will drop to -40 or lower. Forget the wind chill, sometimes it’s off the charts.
Dopers in the Cities, though slightly better off, will back this up if they haven’t frozen to death already.
Tough-guy Easterners. HA!
Unless, of course, you actually have SAD. Then you have my sympathy. But personally, I kinda like the leaden look of a winter sky.
Oh, and happy birthday, spooje