It came yesterday, here, when I realized the heat was on. (The guys who fixed the furnace last month apparently left the thermostat at 70 – I bumped it back up because I try to go till November 1 before I start paying a heating bill.) Then, last night, I added a blanket to the light quilt that lives on the bed year round.
Winter will be here when I add the second blanket.
Got some snow 2 days ago. It’s 28 F at 8:30 this morning. Yep, winter is on the way.
When you cut the grass for the last time of the season, drop in some stabil, and pre-start the leaf blower.
When you start to notice the echo of train whistles in the distance.
When you start to bring a jacket with you when you go out.
When you scrape & defrost like mad in the morning not to be late for work.
Note: With school back in session & morning frost… when you really need to start your commute 20 minutes earlier, but don’t, and try to ‘speed up’ your commute instead, it must be Fall.
That’s weird, I get cold water out of the cold water faucet year-round. During the summer can you get lots of hot water from the cold faucet or just however much is in your water pipes?
During the summer, during the couple-few months it doesn’t get below 100 even at night, the water out of the cold water taps is warm enough to shower in 
Ok, maybe not HOT hot; the hot water tap is definitely hotter. But there is quite a while where I don’t have to turn on the hot water tap unless I really need HOT HOT water.
It may be just this house, though; the condo we lived in before wasn’t like that. It’d run hot for a while and then settle down to room temp. The first showers I took here in the new house I honestly thought the shower faucets were switched, because I could not get cold water at all out of the tap, and it took me about a week to realize I either only needed to BARELY turn on the hot tap, or not turn it on at all, to get a good shower. And the cold alone was usually enough.
When the in-laws first visited, we had a helluva time trying to get them glasses of water to drink, lol. Gave up and bought bottled.
We had a killing frost overnight. The Asian Lady Beetles will be making their way inside. Sadly, that is how I know that winter is on the way.
The battle will begin within days. :mad: I was hoping the drought might have killed them off, or at least reduced their number. But, from what I’ve read, they seem to thrive in drought conditions.
Crap.
Goodbye flip-flops,
hello f’ing socks and shoes.
I like my feet bare.
Shoes are right up there with bras and panti-hose. My body likes to be free.
When the weather report goes from 10 days of sunshine to 10 days of rain…
Seattle is going off of a record or close to record dry spell, and starting Friday the weather is rain rain rain rain rain…
On the happy side – made an apple crisp tonight. Topping it with butter almond ice cream was a really, really good idea.