Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board Autumn will be here soon....

This is, like, the first October I can remember since the 80s that it has been actually cold (only at night, so far).

What if you feel the cold more as you get older? It really messes with you trying to think of hotter or colder years. For this reason, I hereby declare ageing as silly!

I really do look the black-and-orange color combinations of Halloween. It just looks so awesome.

sigh. I was so looking forward to Halloween when I was in LA a few years back too! I keep telling Blaze, we should hit the US of A during the fall season. Winter, you can experience elsewhere (like in Europe, Japan or South Korea). But if you want to experience Halloween, it should be in the USA!

Pumpkin decorating: done.

Pumpkin pie: let's eat!

I had pasta with roast squash the other day. Mmmm.

I don't. They dig up my bulbs and relocate whatever they don't end up eating. This means that perfectly good plants end up sprouting between rocks or under the eaves of the house: the last places a sane person would want them, always.

Also, we have walnut trees all over my neighborhood. The trees are plenty annoying on their own, but add squirrels and you get more aggravation. Again, what they don't eat, they bury all over the yard, displacing other plants in the process. Then they lose track of what they hoarded, leaving you with a kajillion walnut saplings in the spring. Once those things get a foothold in the ground, it practically takes dynamite and a steam shovel to get them out again.

EAT FLAMING DEATH, SQUIRRELS!

[dumps another gallon drum of Cayenne pepper in the flower borders]

I went for "varies for others" but "Eat flaming death, squirrels!" works too

Northern Thailand weather is perfect this time f year

Here in the Bright Sunny South, the last few days have been quite mild, temps in the mid 60s, nice breeze, felt really good outside.

Today however, temps fell back into the lower 50s, brisk cool wind and overnight lows in the 30s.

Now I'm debating if I can summon the will and drive to wage war on the leaves outside. Simply laying there, piling up on the ground, they mock me, daring me to come rake them all up and drag them into the woods to be forgotten. Curse you leaves!!!

I would consider leafing them alone.

I think I would like to move out of the city. It's so much hotter here than in the rural areas!

oh I do like to live beside the seaside, oh I do like to live beside the sea...

Maybe I should take up an online job. Would also make my commute a lot less stressful!

Bah! Hardly no Autumn left!

We're into winter here now, technically. Very mild.

rushes off... creates giant Trojan Aardvark... pats it... rushes back...

Touch wood that it continues.

It's pretty warm here even though it's December. Last year, I was able to walk three blocks in the morning without sweating. This year, I'm dripping all over after one and a half.

I blame global warming!

[my first thought did not relate to the classic Greek story.]

Eeeeewwwwww.

Sleep well, thread. See you next year!

It's about that time....

Fridge is full of pumpkin beers and Octoberfests!

In the English-speaking world, Autumn begins with the Autumnal Equinox, September 23rd in 2014.

In other cultures, there is no autumn. Anciently, in many European countries, Summer and Winter ran from Equinox to Equinox, with the Summer Solstice being Mid-Summers Day, and the Winter Solstice being Mid-Winter’s Night. (Actually the beginnings of Summer and Winter for us moderns.)

In India and the Philippines, the “four” seasons were introduced by the English, Spanish, and Americans. Realistically, these areas of the world have only two seasons: the northern monsoon season, and the southern monsoon season.

Still, yay Autumn.

Yeah, no such thing as falling leaves of deciduous trees here.

In China and Vietnam, the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated at the time the moon is roundest and brightest - the harvest moon, basically.