Originally Posted by Hitch
I DO. And when you guys are whining about winter, I'm gonna remind you about where YOU live, too.
We always get this way, here in Phoenix/desert areas around this time of year. We've been butch, we've managed (since the beginning of May, mind you, when it pokes up over 100); but after about 16 weeks, we start to get really cranky about it. September is the worst, because everyone here, generally, migrated from someplace else with seasons, so we expect "fall." In our bones, we think it should be getting cooler, but "cooler" in Phoenix means it will "only" be about 102 or so for the next month. In the third week of September, the nights will start to cool (meaning, woot, the 80's, maybe. Maybe even the 70's). But for "cool weather," or a break in the ever-present heat, it's (set your clock by it) the third week of October.
Thus, while our childhood memories are, mostly, turning (changing colors, I mean) leaves and sweaters and all that, we're still paying outlandish air-conditioning bills and sweating our buns off here. We get increasingly irritable for the next 7 weeks. (Statistically, you should see the road rage, etc., around here in September. People really do get psycho. No cracks, Stitch.)
And then it will be winter. Not fall, but winter. Literally, here, it's like, one day, it's blistering, and the next day, it's actually, for us, COLD.
Zep and Storm are waiting by the damned windows, they are so tired of the heat. No, they don't go outside, but they know the diff. between the windows OPEN (screens) and the windows slammed shut. So, as I said, about that whiny emoty, yes, I know I'm whining and whingeing. I just want the damn heat to end. It's Labor (Labour for you Brits and Canucks out there) Day weekend, for the love of heaven! {sniffle}.
Hitch
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