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Dead leaves in MY walking trail? It's more likely than you think.

Walnuts are the first to drop leaves; and nuts... Looks nice, and I can hear the squirrels eating walnuts outside. The sound of the nuts falling is startling sometimes. Love fall. Winter's cool too; second best season next to fall. Gonna be 90F+ next week though. I hope summer fucks off in short order. Last few years it hasn't :^(
 
Sonikku said:
Winter is coming, though I'm still without closure to Game of Thrones. 🙁
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I just saw a news blurb that the new season of GoT that was supposed to air in spring 2019 might be pushed back even further. Seems the series is now emulating the books. Winter might be coming, but it's in no goddamned hurry to get here.
 
Red Squirrel said:
LOL that is true. No Texan knows what a winter actually is. 😛 Some people here actually go to Texas when they are tired of winter. lol.
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LOL

Last winter here I think we ended up with more snow than Red did. He got all the cold air masses, though.

I just hope this winter coming isn't going to be too nasty.
 
Iron Woode said:
LOL

Last winter here I think we ended up with more snow than Red did. He got all the cold air masses, though.

I just hope this winter coming isn't going to be too nasty.
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Probably. We hardly get any snow now days. Maybe 2 feet at most, maybe 3. Our first snow is usually late November too, before it was more like mid October, maybe even September. I remember back when I was a kid we got so much snow it was crazy. Now I find we get most of our snow in December, but then it gets really cold for 2-3 months which mean it does not snow, then we might get a bit more snow after that.
 
Herr Kutz said:
FFS, it's still August. Canada really is a horrible place to live.
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You misspelled wonderful.

Wiktionary said:
English
Alternative forms

wonderfool (eye dialect), woonderful (eye dialect), wonderfull (archaic), wondreful (obsolete), wondrefull (obsolete), 1drfl (internet slang)

Etymology

From Middle English wonderful, wondirful, from Old English wundorful (“wonderful”), equivalent to wonder +‎ -ful. Cognate Dutch wondervol (“wonderful”), German wundervoll (“wonderful”).
Pronunciation

(UK) IPA(key): /ˈwʌn.də.fl/
(US) IPA(key): /ˈwʌn.dɚ.fl̩/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: blunderful

Adjective

wonderful (comparative wonderfuller or wonderfuler or more wonderful, superlative wonderfullest or wonderfulest or most wonderful)

(now rare) Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

'Ha!' cried Dangerfield, with a sort of gasp, and a violent smirk, the joyousness of which was, however, counteracted by a lurid scowl and a wonderful livid glare in his wild eyes; […]

1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 278:

He is massively corrupt. It is wonderful how the man's popularity survives.

Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.

They served a wonderful six-course meal.

2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1]:

Though they obviously realized that these episodes were part of something wonderful and important and lasting, the writers and producers couldn’t have imagined that 20 years later “Treehouse Of Horror” wouldn’t just survive; it’d thrive as one of the most talked-about and watched episodes of every season of The Simpsons.

Synonyms

(excellent, extremely impressive): great, amazing, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, fantastic, frabjous, mint
See also Thesaurus:wonderful
See also Thesaurus:excellent

Antonyms

(excellent, extremely impressive): terrible, horrible
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wonderful
 
Iron Woode said:
Texas would need therapy after one of Red Squirrel's 'winters'.

🙂
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And economic stimulus since they wouldn't leave the house nor could they because the highways and even the side streets would constantly be gridlocked due to all the car accidents. I live in N'awlins (that's New Orleans for you yanks) and if we get a single flake of snow the entire city shuts down. Seriously, the schools send the kids home or cancels school if they know it's coming, the government shuts down and the mayor gets on TV telling everyone to stay the fuck home.

The day that I have to shovel snow to get my vehicle out of the driveway is the same day I back a uhaul up to the door and move further south even if I gotta go to friggen Mexico.
 
Herr Kutz said:
FFS, it's still August. Canada really is a horrible place to live.
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Red lives in Northern Ontario. Autumn happens a bit sooner there.

I live in the southern part (closer to Detroit) and Autumn starts in October and snow starts in late November/early December.

And Autumn is beautiful here with all the leaf colours.

🙂
 
Iron Woode said:
Red lives in Northern Ontario. Autumn happens a bit sooner there.

I live in the southern part (closer to Detroit) and Autumn starts in October and snow starts in late November/early December.

And Autumn is beautiful here with all the leaf colours.

🙂
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You say start like it happens continuously or more than once a year. I stand by my earlier statement.
 
I'll take the cold over brutal heat tbh. You can't dress for +30's, it's hot as hell no matter what even if you're naked. The -30's and -40's do get old after a while but those only last a few months. It's mostly annoying for driving because the windows get full of frost when the car is sitting out overnight and it takes forever to scrape it all off. It's crossed my mind to run nichrome wire along the dash and have a supplementary battery to run it, so that when I start the car I get heat right away. Car heaters should have an electric element that kicks on until the engine gets up to temp. I don't know why this is not standard.

One fun thing about our winters though is you can do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra6Vnxb_oH8

I find the longest part of winter though is the months after February. By then I'm always looking forward to summer but it's still far away.

Back when I was a kid our winters were a bit more regular though. First snow fall around Sept-Oct, cold as hell in January, then snow melt around April. Now it's all over the place. Less snow and more cold, with heat waves in between. Last year we hardly had a proper snow pack on the roads. Roads were horrible because of it. Just jagged ice instead of smooth solid snow.


There are places much more north than me as well where their winters are quite harsh like Northwest Territories.
 
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