Anyone else hoping for frost?

[plantsnobin]

I am. Sick of mowing, sick of weeds, sick of chiggers, skeeters, beetles of numerous kinds. Sick of heat, sick of humidity. Though I must say that for the last few days we have had just perfect weather. Temps in the low 80's with no humidity to speak of, and nice breezes. I know it won't last, but it sure is nice while it does. I should be getting everything done that I need to for the get together, but I am a bit of a procrastinator.

[Joseph Lofthouse]

Ha! It's only been 14 days since I had my most recent frost. I'm finally to the point where everything is planted, and the weeds have been tamed, and the garden is starting to produce a little bit, but not so much that it stresses me out... And out here in the desert moutains I don't even know what they are: chiggers, ticks, mosquitoes. Though I am looking forward to tilling under the lettuce.

Regards,
Joseph

[nuts]

Over here t° is about 30°C or more(that must be 85 F) for about 10 days.What's somewhat annoying is that some things need watering now.
But I've been waiting for it so long,I wouldn't dare to complain about it.

Better not be like many farmers,that need only a few days to go from complaining that it's too wet and too cold to complaining that it's too hot and too dry

[Kelly]

No, no, don't even say it! I feel like our season just started! While I'm already sick of the 30C+ temps too, at least things are growing now. It's been so chilly for us up until a few weeks ago, the tomatoes were barely doing anything.

[bunkie]

same here. was 43F this morning. cold cold cold. in a couple days we're supposed to hit 90F, so, instant summer. no time to acclimate. still putting things in the ground!

[stratcat]

Not at all! Still planting, as well. Whew.

Have 16 peppers and one tomato in the car ready to go in the ground at my friend's this afternoon.

[galina]

Karen, just imagine this: It is far too cold and sleety to go outside to do any gardening - and it has been for a while. When you do go out to pick some sprouts for dinner, you come back with frozen, painful fingers and they take forever to warm up. You feel chilled to the bones, because there are drafts coming through the windows and you need to keep the thermostat on the heating low, because of cost and because we have all been advised to use less oil and gas. You are wearing 2 pullovers and still feel like putting your coat on. Nothing seems to get you really warm and comfortable, apart perhaps your bed and the heater in your car. You feel far less active than during the summer months, maybe your mood is as grey as the leaden skies outside. You need electric lights on all day, because the short daylight hours with their weak light are not sufficient to work indoors. You go out to work in the dark and come back home from work in the dark and haven't really had a 'day' as such.

Ok, I exaggerate slightly and I am somewhat affected by SAD (seasonal affective disorder), but summer is just so much better than winter. A bright frosty day is no problem, but for most of the time at our latitude it is just cold, damp and grey.

[grunt]

t again = FROST is a 4 letter word.

[blueadzuki]

Okay galina, now lets look at the flipside

It's 95 in the shade and humind. you've been up for four hours but are currently lying in your bed, panting. You don't dare get any ice out of your freezer for fear of running out and out of fear that in this blistering heat just opening the fridge or freezer will put too much strain on the motor and blow the whole coolant system. Likewise you don't dare turn on a fan or air conditioner for fear of being the one who overtaxes the electric grid and starts a brownout, or even a rolling blackout. you tried to get out of bed four hours ago but the heat and the humiditry sapped your strength to the point where you just about managed to call up an take a personal day. ALL of your shades are drawn and the lights are out, since its now so hot that the addional heat from the lights, sun or artificial is sheer torture. Since you have all the shades drawn and there in no way in HECK you're even going to THINK of leaving ther house. you are also lying on your bed completely naked, partly because even the touch of your underclothes has become unbearable in this heat, and partly becuse you vaugely remember reading an article that said that, if you stay naked long enough your body stops noticing the heat, since the outside is still cooler than your 98.6 degree body temperature. you'd get something to drink to cool you off but as menioned you don't want to risk getting any ice and lukewarm liquid gives you stomach cramps in this heat. You arey trying to sleep through till sundown when you hope it will cool enough for you to be able to get up long enough to put some food in you, or go to the bathroom, but your sweat has by now soaked you bed down to the mattress and it doesn't feel good. You make a mental note that, as soon as you retire, your going to take all your money an move to as close to the South Pole as you can. After a few minutes you modify this to somewhere in the middle Andes, where you understand that the combination of being on the equator and being so high up means there are places where it is spring/autumn temperatures all year round. As you muse on this the heat exaustion finally allows you to drift off.

Don't get me wrong I'm no big fan of the depths of winter either. In my ideal world (ideal for me not for my garden) it would probably be spring/autumn weather year round. I think ogden nash summed it it best in the last stanza of his poem "It's never fair weather"

The winter’s sun, of course, is kind,
And summer’s wind is a savior,
And I’ll merrily sing of fall and spring
When they’re on their good behavior.
But otherwise I see no reason
To speak in praise of any season.

[plantsnobin]

Well, I just came in from my afternoon chores, and I am sitting on a footstool because I am too nasty sweaty to sit on the sofa. I have unloaded 600 pounds of rabbit feed, fed and watered about 100 rabbits, watered horses and went to the hayfield. It's right about 94F. I do have air conditioning though. I would have to move much farther north if we didn't. And I need to mow again, too.

[spacecase0]

I have to wear a coat at work or I get to cold,
I don't want frost,
I just want to live somewhere where there is summer.

[grunt]

Actually, I love it all = it tells me I'm still breathing (and being retired and on a pension, they are paying me to breathe).

[ceara]

Alberta got snow not long ago - in July! I saw it on the Weather Network website.

[JanetM]

I've noticed that as I age I have to change my lifestyle. It has helped to live in a woods now as we don't have to mow a yard anymore, we don't have one. It is cooler in the woods in comparison to sunny areas but I can't plant a garden either, miss that alot! There is lots of leaves to rake though and ticks are bad. A few years back, when the hurricane winds come thought our area we stood and watched 12 big, tall trees fall around us, one just missed the deck. We still have not removed all the fallen trees or limbs that scatter around our house. One did smash our small tractor, that was not insured. Now Frank has to go into the woods to cut his wood, without the aid of a tractor to haul it all back.
Is there any perfect place to live at? Sounds like we are all over the world and there is a drawback to them all! I think I will stay in Indiana, in the woods, in my privite setting, and count my blessings. . .
Karen, you want to come live with me? I think you would miss your beautiful garden and your rabbits. I have just gotten warm after a long, cold winter so am not looking forward to frost just yet, but I am sure you are not alone in wanting your frost. . ..

[Joseph Lofthouse]

Jul 14, 2010 7:35:42 GMT -5 ceara said:

Alberta got snow not long ago - in July!

When that happens to me I always wonder whether I should call it the first frost of the season, or the last.

Regards,
Joseph