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Autumnal Thoughts........

Inkstainedwretch

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Bixie Bliss said:
As much as I love summer, Autumn always makes me feel happier. The cooler air means I get to wear my home knits and cosy clothes, I can start to plan Christmas and my birthday approaches! In the UK it's much cooler but my skin doesn't cope well with any heat. Last year towards the end of September, there was a lovely sunny Sunday spent with friends in their garden. I was like the mad hatter crossed with Goldilocks swapping seats to try to stay under the parasol. When my friend asked what on earth I was doing I said I could feel my skin prickling in the heat. She shrieked as she could see me going pink. Sunburnt in nearly October.... in England..... in an hour or two. I might as well just live underground and be done with it!
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This is why Hobbit Holes make so much sense.
 
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Fading Fast said:
I, too, have two colors - ghostly white pallor or lobster red (which I haven't had in over thirty years as I use sunblock 100% of the time I'm outdoors and, even still, try to avoid direct sunlight). I have never "tanned" a day in my life.

The other thing that caught my attention in your post is that you, like so many (myself included), mention, not only enjoying the cooler air, but that you can put on "fall" clothing. It's odd, but for some reason, many of us very much look forward to putting on our fall clothing again. I know I'll get a lift the first time I throw on a shetland sweater.
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Oh I know that feeling. I can't tan. It just doesn't happen. Pale and interesting, that's what I keep telling myself! Glad it's not just me that prefers winter wardrobe to summer!
 
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Yesterday we did the Ed Kretz memorial ride. Freezing cold on the motorcycle ride there. About perfect during the group ride, and to hot on the ride home. I did layer, but was down to my tee shirt once I hit town!
 
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Spotted yesterday. Is it even officially autumn yet?

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It's a bit early for Christmas stuff in shops. As much as I love the season of goodwill, Let me have my birthday first (end of October) and Halloween then I can start to think about presents and decorations! In our family all of us had our birthdays in October, November or December. My mum's is Christmas eve which is pretty inconvenient, as I rarely have my act together early enough to buy her a birthday card and wrapping paper before all the card shops turn to Christmas cards only!
 
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All of this stuff - sports seasons, holiday seasons, political seasons - has become way, way too long as the traditional boundaries that were culturally observed have all broken down.

When Lizzie is dictator (and I've been rounded up and shot), I hope she enforces no Christmas advertising 'till Thanksgiving, all sports season should be 4 months (and one month, no more, for playoffs [baseball can keep its regular season, but must return to its old, shorter playoff format]) and elections should be measured in weeks not months or years.

I think things felt more special as a kid because they had a defined timeline and, then, were gone. Now everything bleeds into everything else and everything is "extended." None of it feels special.
 
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Fading Fast said:
All of this stuff - sports seasons, holiday seasons, political seasons - has become way, way too long as the traditional boundaries that were culturally observed have all broken down.

When Lizzie is dictator (and I've been rounded up and shot), I hope she enforces no Christmas advertising 'till Thanksgiving, all sports season should be 4 months (and one month, no more, for playoffs [baseball can keep its regular season, but must return to its old, shorter playoff format]) and elections should be measured in weeks not months or years.

I think things felt more special as a kid because they had a defined timeline and, then, were gone. Now everything bleeds into everything else and everything is "extended." None of it feels special.
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I so agree with you.
 
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This may be the last day we have in the 80s for awhile and I'm perfectly okay with that. There are a few trees and bushes that have started to turn and I couldn't be happier about it. Bring on autumn!
 
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We FINALLY had some cool weather here - it was in the 50s this morning when I left for work, shortly before sunrise. The first proper jacket weather since spring! So I finally wore a new M-1941 OD field jacket repro I got over the summer (At The Front's cotton-lined "summer" version) for the first time.
 
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Lean'n'mean said:
Dictators tend to ban christmas & elections. :rolleyes:
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Agreed. Whenever I reference Lizzie as dictator, I always mention that I will have been rounded up and shot in the early rounds of her purges as, yes, dictatorships are brutal, horrible, evil killing machines that eviscerate individuality and joy in the majority of the population as maintaining power requires, over time (and sometimes right at the start), a physical and mental crackdown on freedom and independent thought.

It is just a tongue-in-cheek way to highlight some things that we'd like to see happen, but know won't without an unreasonable top-down forcing of it. So our freedom allows us to keep Christmas but not rein in its marketing excrescence.
 
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dh66 said:
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Spotted yesterday. Is it even officially autumn yet?

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So three thoughts:
1. I love (as in LOVE LOVE LOVE) Christmas. It is my favorite holiday. I listen to Christmas music throughout the year when the mood strikes. I have had a tree up all year (changed for the seasons, so decorated with eggs for Easter, etc.).
It makes it much less special to have Christmas up all year.

2. I love Halloween. It is my second favorite holiday. Having Christmas push off all the fun Halloween in the stores upsets me.

3. I had pumpkin ice cream yesterday at our local ice cream haunt that offers 24 flavors of ice cream. They close in a week, so I have to get my fall ice cream in now.
 
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And for all my love of Christmas, the "official" Christmas tree goes up after our weekend away at a YMCA camp in the Catskills (around December 7th) and comes down by January 12th. I do often put out our little village around or before Thanksgiving, but that's because it's more work than the tree and I am typically off for a few days then and we travel for Thanksgiving, so it's not like we enjoy the village until after December-ish anyways.
 
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