Change of the seasons, it certainly is fall today….

Just another one of my “ramblings”. 🤔

Certainly nothing to do with Lyme disease other than energy related.

I post every fall about the change of seasons, lack of daylight, etc. Affecting some more than others, depending on their individual chemistry, and where they live.

Last weekend was pretty awesome in the 50s and sunny then it turned into the low 40s and a lot of rain the whole mid week. I’m going to a big campfire gathering tonight …and I hardly even feel like going. It’s just wet, cool, and gloomy outside. Ugg.

I was hoping the United States would get this permanent daylight savings time figure it out. It was getting somewhere last year, then got held up and never passed yet. So early November we will turn our clocks back again, …so it’ll get dark in the late afternoon.

I don’t think it would bother me as much If I didn’t work full-time , at least then I’d have some daylight in the middle of the day to do things. Plus, I’m a little more motivated for snow removal during the daylight hours versus after work before or after dinner.

At least the icing on the cake is that spring will always arrive, even if that means 5 1/2 months from now.

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The best thing about summer for me is not the heat… because nowadays it seems to get too warm for me, but I like the extended day light. The Northwoods where I sometimes go camping - the June sun doesn’t set till about 10 PM.

This summer was warm and often filled with forest fire smoke so I never went. I’ve gone camping there in October and woke up to forest fire ash one morning, then snow the next. Fall Camping can be pretty boring when the sun goes down at 6:30 pm. Five hour campfires before getting in my sleeping bag at 10 -11 PM is a little too long. But the fact that I once had the whole campground almost to myself in one of the most northern boarder campgrounds in all of the states besides Alaska was pretty cool though. Along with the wind, the sound of nearby flowing water, and the occasional wolves howling made that a kind of Halloween camping experience.

(If I keep doing this, as I get older, I should maybe start looking at the latest offerings in satellite phones or something that works when there are no cell towers around).

Post Edited (astroman) : 10/14/2023 10:23:50 AM (GMT-8)

saraeli said...
Lots of chronically ill people I know are experiencing the "October slide" right now. Wishing everyone a groovy baseline this fall!

Ha ha, ….well said.

Edit; I thought you just made up “October slide”.

I didn’t realize that was a term that you could Google, referring to the effects of barometer and temperature drop on peoples chronic health conditions.

Post Edited (astroman) : 10/15/2023 8:58:51 AM (GMT-8)

curiously - it also just went from late summer temperatures here to v cold in just the last couple of days over here in the UK - was around freezing last night for the first time this year.

the sudden change always brings home how another year is coming to a close - and the cold damp winter is coming.

We are on the same latitude as Moscow - (somewhere close to the Alaskan border on the north American continent ) - but we don't really get any prolonged periods below freezing here - being surrounded by a comparatively warm sea. so winters tend to be largely above freezing and grey and damp.

its not the most overtly uplifting time of year - but i like to get out every day and enjoy whatever the elements are doing that day.

Garzie said...
curiously - it also just went from late summer temperatures here to v cold in just the last couple of days over here in the UK -

We are on the same latitude as Moscow - (somewhere close to the Alaskan border on the north American continent ) - but we don't really get any prolonged periods below freezing here - being surrounded by a comparatively warm sea. so winters tend to be largely above freezing and grey and damp.

That would be a muddy and grey 5 months over there......but, at least not as cold. Looks similar to Seattle. Sounds "do-able".

My area, North central US, with no warm sea nearby can have the most extreme temp range of the US. In just 300 mile distance, extreme years can have summer highs of low 100's to winter lows of -40's F. The region records are a rare but amazing +114F (long time ago) and -61F (1990's) that were only 150 miles apart with similar elevation.

January is usually brutal. 2023/2024 might be a warmer winter though(!). Experiencing below 0 F (daytime highs) for two straight weeks once or sometimes twice a season with about 7 hrs of daylight is a physical and mental test for all things living ( test of mechanical things too). Could still be worse though I suppose! .... (Siberia).

February is still cold here too, but its kind of a brighter winter mental relief. The days get longer with more sunny days, big mental difference. Lots of frozen lake activities that month to help with the winter blues/boredom/"cabin fever".. From snow and ice sports (human, animal and mechanical) to bonfire parties on the ice (it wont melt a hole in 10"-24" thick lake ice). The things we do to keep sane while.....waiting for summer to return.

Post Edited (astroman) : 10/17/2023 7:33:19 AM (GMT-8)