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Post by kds on Oct 18, 2021 22:02:09 GMT
Saturday afternoon, a little after 2pm, Fall finally arrived. After some rain, the temperature went from about 82 to 64.
Yesterday was an absolutely perfect day to go to a football game.
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Post by kds on Oct 22, 2021 19:32:25 GMT
At looks at we're in for a full weekend of ideal fall weather this weekend. Highs in the mid 60s, dipping into the 50s, and even high 40s at night. According to the long range forecast, that's pretty much what's on tap for Halloween weekend too.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 22, 2021 19:51:14 GMT
Our warmer-than-average October (and really, it has generally been unseasonably warm, with plenty of days in the 60s and not just a few in the 70s) is over. A cold front moved in the other day and we're suddenly struggling to get up much over 50 during the day. This morning I awoke to THIRTY-FOUR degrees. Yesterday, having seen the forecast, I pulled the last of the peppers and tomatoes from the garden to try to ripen them indoors.
Suddenly my ambition for getting up early, for pre-work morning walks, etc., has gone way way down. While we'll likely have a few more, nicer days, sadly this is probably the best case scenario for the coming month or so. If it isn't this, it'll be worse.
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Post by carllove on Oct 23, 2021 5:26:41 GMT
I can relate, Kapitan! Last night I went to bed early enough to pop out of bed at 4:30, and be at my first location by 6:00 AM. That turned into - let’s sleep in until 5:30 and work on the laptop from home for a couple of hours. The window next to my side of the bed was wide open last night (mid 40’s for a low), AND my husband turned on the window AC at 2 AM because he said it was hot! I just couldn’t get out of bed! Doesn’t help that I have to go to two locations Sunday morning starting at 2AM because we have a Lab Information System switch. I’m already tired just thinking about it!
Our daytime weather was perfect! Very Sunny and I ditched my jacket by noon. I drove with my windows open, blaring Disk 5 of Feel Flows! Tonight we set up the 10 foot movie screen and sound bar and watched Dune from our fire pit patio. It was glorious and all was right with the world. I will try to remember that feeling on Sunday, when I might not be able to stay up to watch the Chiefs game and survive Monday!
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Post by kds on Oct 31, 2021 18:52:50 GMT
Happy Halloween out there.
We're taking my son trick or treating later. Right now, I'm resting after mowing the lawn, for what I'm hoping is the last time in 2021.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 31, 2021 19:43:25 GMT
Yes, Happy Halloween to all. I'm curious to see whether we'll get trick-or-treaters this year. (While there were a bazillion kids out around town for little daytime events yesterday, annual actual trick-or-treating is way down lately.)
Ready to go, though I'm betting I'll be trying to pace myself in eating mini candy bars over the coming weeks!
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Post by kds on Nov 1, 2021 1:45:33 GMT
When we came home from taking our son trick or treating, the bowl of candy we left out was still full.
We took him to my folks' neighborhood, but there weren't many people handing out candy this year. Far fewer than last year, when COVID was worse.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 1, 2021 11:29:30 GMT
Zero trick-or-treaters here.
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Post by kds on Nov 1, 2021 12:25:42 GMT
Zero trick-or-treaters here. This was our fifth Halloween at our house. We've yet to hand out one piece of candy. Halloween is the one night of the year I miss the neighborhood I lived at in Baltimore City from 2008-2017. Halloween was such a fun night. All the neighbors would be outside, handing out candy, often with a strong beverage. After handing out some candy, we'd walk down the street to my friend's parents' house for some hot rum & cider, chili, and other snacks.
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Post by kds on Nov 1, 2021 12:42:32 GMT
I'm also happy to report that I made it through October without hearing Werewolves in London, probably for the first time ever.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 1, 2021 12:44:39 GMT
While I personally don't get into the celebration of it so much, I actually kind of regret what seems to be the passing of the old ways of Halloween. Maybe it's just the out-of-touch, increasingly old man in me, but if you offered me as a kid the choice of either putting on my costume on a Saturday morning or afternoon and going to a parking lot or sidewalk to get candy from businesses and such, or going out trick-or-treating on Halloween evening itself? Not even close.
Also it seems the season changed with the holiday and month passing by. I believe this is our first official freezing temp: 32 when I awoke. We still have highs in the high 40s and 50s in the next 10 days, but even so, it's not what it was. Morning walks are about to get a lot less pleasant, and I guess exercise has to move increasingly indoors. (I hate indoor exercise.)
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Nov 1, 2021 12:57:25 GMT
We had between 25-30 Trick-Or-Treaters, but I'll bet 90% were from out of the area/neighborhood. People were parking their cars at the bottom of the driveway, the kids would get their candy (with their mom in tow), then they'd hop in the car and drive away. I had no idea who they were!
The temperatures are hanging in there; it might hit 60 today. I'll cut the grass today or tomorrow, then probably one more time until Thanksgiving.
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Post by kds on Nov 1, 2021 12:59:57 GMT
While I personally don't get into the celebration of it so much, I actually kind of regret what seems to be the passing of the old ways of Halloween. Maybe it's just the out-of-touch, increasingly old man in me, but if you offered me as a kid the choice of either putting on my costume on a Saturday morning or afternoon and going to a parking lot or sidewalk to get candy from businesses and such, or going out trick-or-treating on Halloween evening itself? Not even close.
Also it seems the season changed with the holiday and month passing by. I believe this is our first official freezing temp: 32 when I awoke. We still have highs in the high 40s and 50s in the next 10 days, but even so, it's not what it was. Morning walks are about to get a lot less pleasant, and I guess exercise has to move increasingly indoors. (I hate indoor exercise.)
Traditional trick or treating is still very much alive in the Baltimore area. However, it varies greatly from neighborhood to neighborhood. I can't believe the Halloween month is over already. It's been a very busy month for us. That, coupled with the fact that we didn't really get true October weather until mid month, made it feel like I didn't get to enjoy it too much.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 1, 2021 13:08:19 GMT
Our October weather was, for the most part, all a person could ask for. I found myself outside reading on the patio after work probably a solid half the time. We had several days in the upper 70s. It was no problem to just step outside to run errands anytime without thinking about bundling up, or even putting on a light jacket. In Minnesota, that's a big win.
Seems we're going to be back to normal now, though, which of course is chilly and increasingly at risk for the horrors of Minnesota winters. Frankly once we hit November, anything is possible. It could be 40, 50 degrees; or it could drop into single digits and drop a foot of snow.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 1, 2021 17:53:31 GMT
Just finished a 3+ hour sales strategy web meeting. Kill me.
Seriously, the highlight was a very successful, mid-late career VP asking "I have a technical question: is there a way I can mute myself to blow my nose?" (We've been doing web meetings, like everyone else, regularly since the pandemic began. She has been a remote employee for years previously. And it wasn't some wacky new platform, it was WebEx. There is a gigantic "MUTE" button.)
Sometimes I come out of these meetings with a bloated ego, thinking either everyone else is an idiot or I'm a genius. Other times I think, wait, these people are all very successful/wealthy. Maybe I'm the idiot somehow, too dumb to even know it...
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