Summer is over..

Anatidaephobia

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Judging from the posts on MSE during the warmer weather, you are not alone.

I don't mind warm or cold but I prefer warm. In fact very warm. It's not the temperature that depresses me in autumn/winter, its the overriding dreachness of the period. Last winter it must have rained every day for three months. How can anybody like that?

I like rain.

suejb2

In reverse order:
Summer:It just seems a filler between Spring and Autumn,I do enjoy the light nights though
Spring: Love the "start" of everything. birdsong ,flowers,animals even showers.
Autumn: Adore the rich colours of nature ,foraging, the smell in the air ,everything bedding down.
Winter:Crisp days, dark nights, snow, not so much for Christmas more for great time I can spend with family
I'm a Winter born

lulu_92

This now reminds me of that bit in Miss Congeniality:

"Okay, Miss Rhode Island, describe your perfect date."

"I'd have to say April 25th, because it's not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket!" :rotfl:

Gloomendoom

Anatidaephobia wrote: »

I like rain.

So do I, in moderation.

Mr_Toad

I'm begining to think that I'm the weird one as I like all the seasons. :j

I love the summer, the long, warm days making the gardening and other jobs a pleasure to do. Spending weeks on the boat exploring the country by canal. Then, as the summer turns to autumn and winter, it's time to do other things, the indoor hobbies that somehow don't seem right when it's hot and sunny.

I still use the boat but now the summer is over the hire boaters have gone and it's so much more peaceful.

I love the winter nights and cold days, instead of sitting in the garden to read I sit by the fire with the radio on or tinker in the workshop.

Friends come round for supper and a drink and a jam session with the guitars. Again the boat still gets used, we go over and spend alternate weekends on her arriving Friday morning and coming home Monday evening. With the log fire burning in the stove it's perfect, we get together with the other boaters in the pub and somehow seem to spend the evenings laughing.

Snow is a bonus, I love how it transforms the countryside and I love driving in it.

Christmas is spent with friends and family but my only consession is a small tree, I hate the commercialism but unless I go into town I rarely see it as I don't watch much TV and what I do watch is recorded so no adverts for me!

This year it's up to the Isle of Skye to stay with friends for New Year.

Every day is fantastic no matter what the weather or time of year.

Georgiegirl256

Mr_Toad wrote: »

I'm begining to think that I'm the weird one as I like all the seasons. :j

I love the summer, the long, warm days making the gardening and other jobs a pleasure to do. Spending weeks on the boat exploring the country by canal. Then, as the summer turns to autumn and winter, it's time to do other things, the indoor hobbies that somehow don't seem right when it's hot and sunny.

I still use the boat but now the summer is over the hire boaters have gone and it's so much more peaceful.

I love the winter nights and cold days, instead of sitting in the garden to read I sit by the fire with the radio on or tinker in the workshop.

Friends come round for supper and a drink and a jam session with the guitars. Again the boat still gets used, we go over and spend alternate weekends on her arriving Friday morning and coming home Monday evening. With the log fire burning in the stove it's perfect, we get together with the other boaters in the pub and somehow seem to spend the evenings laughing.

Snow is a bonus, I love how it transforms the countryside and I love driving in it.

Christmas is spent with friends and family but my only consession is a small tree, I hate the commercialism but unless I go into town I rarely see it as I don't watch much TV and what I do watch is recorded so no adverts for me!

This year it's up to the Isle of Skye to stay with friends for New Year.

Every day is fantastic no matter what the weather or time of year.

Aww Mr Toad, that is beautiful, it really is, especially that last sentence.

I also quite like all seasons. For all the reasons you describe above. I like the long warm nights in Summer and I even don't mind the heat anymore. I can go out on walks or on my mountain bike.

I've always loved Autumn. The beautiful leaves and Halloween. Winter for wrapping up warm in snugly scarves and boots and eating lots and lots of soup and stews! Although I love stews that much I even gave them in Summer too!

I also love snow as well....and driving in it!

Mr_Toad

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Aww Mr Toad, that is beautiful, it really is, especially that last sentence.

I also quite like all seasons. For all the reasons you describe above. I like the long warm nights in Summer and I even don't mind the heat anymore. I can go out on walks or on my mountain bike.

I've always loved Autumn. The beautiful leaves and Halloween. Winter for wrapping up warm in snugly scarves and boots and eating lots and lots of soup and stews! Although I love stews that much I even gave them in Summer too!

I also love snow as well....and driving in it!

I took early retirement in April 2013 so this is my second summer :j as a gentleman of leisure.

I've always been lucky in that I worked from home for the last 25 years of my career so was never stuck in a soulless office.

I can't begin to express how fantastic retirement is, I'm fortunate that my company pension was a superb final salary scheme without which I would never have been able to retire when I did at 55 Having no debt and a paid off mortgage meant it was a no brainer

I spend most of my time from April until October outside. When you're not in a rush you can appreciate things so much more than when you have to pack everything in outside working hours. You have the time to just stop and stare.

What is starting to worry me slightly is the speed at which my sedate life of leisure is flying by.

I'm typing this on my laptop sat at the table in the garden with a cup of coffee. I might chuck a bucket of water over the Jeep when I've finished this and try and make it a bit less muddy.

Decisions, decisions, life just doesn't get much better.

Ioanna

I already miss summer! Hot air, sun, comfortable clothes... freedom...
Nevertheless, I love autumn pastel colors, smell of dried leaves, as well.