What month is this?

I am freezing!! My flowers are going to start to think it is the middle of October!! I can't stand this weather!! Where did the summer go!! August 21!! It went soooo fast!! Before you know it it's going to be halloween!

I agree...it really is starting to feel like fall. Especially in the mornings when it is sooooooo cool out.

Could see your breath this morning in Maine :(
This cold weather is for the birds!

here it is to be 67 today and mid 90's in 4 days. It's August.

Weather is as weather does.

I know - isn't the weather great! I love it when the temperatures are in the 60s and low 70s. My gardens look fabulous - all the weeding is done, plants look keen and fresh. What's not to like?

I like the cooler temps too, makes nice sleeping weather. I still have a lot of dead heading to do and I really need to get the shed cleaned out and reorganized for the fall. When the hot stuff comes things get tossed in anywhere at the end of gardening and now its a big mess. The heat is coming back at the end of the week now they are saying. You know the first week of school it will be hot too. LOL. Just cause all the kids want to wear their new fall stuff. Do kids still do that? Been a few years since I had to worry about school supplies. Don't miss it either. :)

Mine are still too young to be thinking about being cool. Not long though. Ugh.

Yeah - its tough being a kid when you are trying to fit in and be cool. Much more fun being a grown-up :-)

Funny, my 18 year old thinks he developed "cool" and my daughter 13 1/2 could care less. Boys on the other hand....much more interesting than being cool *lol*.

My son has to have his room in the 40's or he's too hot so he just went and bought a $250 air conditioner for his room. It's like walking into a morgue in there. He's part Eskimo I think *lol* So now we get to run the heat and the air conditioner all winter .... yep..... I know..... makes alot of sense to me too.....NOT!!! *lol*

It's just plain cold!

Maybe I should give my new furnace a "test drive" before it really gets cold!



This message was edited Aug 21, 2007 4:49 PM

I would.

Lucky us we got a bran spanking new furnace and central air last year - no worries here. I will be toasty warm come the winter!

We are still running a very old wood furnace ... and I hate it!!!! We have been saving for quite saome time for a whole new heating system. Getting the furnace wouldn't be a problem, but when you add on all the duct-work renovations and the cost involved to do that to this whole house, well, we are still saving!!!!

I don't need no stinking heat right now. PI hates heat. Hates a warm shower and hates doing dishes, even hates being covered up at night. We do not know where it is comming from. The only thing we can think of is the 2 dogs or cat is bringing it in.

Got outside today and got some cool pics yeah like cool.

And this one is named Sally. She loves heat.

Wow! What a shot! Is that a heron?

I belive so. We have had the huge blue birds here also. It is a marshy area so they eat stuff?

Yes it is a Heron.

Victor .... which heron? Is it a Blue?

I'm not that good - just know it's a Heron.

I guess I shall try to look it up in my bird book. I know we have both the Great Blue and the Lesser Blue around here. I love to watch them. For such a large bird, they are really quite graceful.

Blue herons are blue and can be bigger. This one here is gray about 3' tall.

If the pictures and descriptions are correct in my Peterson's Field Guide, then that's an immature Little Blue Heron. Funny, though. The mature ones are white. I always thought the white ones were egrets. I suppose it depends on where they are feeding. If they eat with the cows, it's an egret. If it eats the trout out of your fish pond, it's a heron.

If they eat your trout it's a REGRET.

For them!! For sure!!!

Good thing I tested the furnace - only one of the three zones heats! Sigh.

Uh oh. Thermostats okay?

Don't know but for the $9k I paid - I expect it to work perfectly! I called my girlfriend whose husband contracted the job for me. It will get taken care of.

Good for you! Go get 'em, Cat!!

You certainly should have everything working perfectly.

In 2002, we replaced the original boiler in Our Old House with a new natural gas boiler. Yesterday we spent $300 fixing the new boiler - it started leaking water a few hours after we arrived home from camping (guess we have to be grateful for small miracles). Anyway, I guess now I won't have to worry about heat this winter :-)

I have a stupid question, what is PI? Beautiful pictures!!

Posion Ivy - want some?

Schickenlady don't get me going on PI! ;) You know how I feel about that stuff!! WAIT - you think your pets walked through it and then you caught it from petting them! Tell me it isn't so. You must be even more allergic than me. My cat doesn't come inside except to eat once warm weather gets here. Making me shudder just thinking about it.

We have no explanation how I am getting this crappy stuff now. The 1st year I did pull it out of the ground. If it has 3 leaves LEAVE. The dogs and the cat do go into the woodline and bushes. They chase what ever in there - munks, squirrils even the wind.

It starts on the hands and arms and then spreads. It is going away now but for days I did not dare to touch my Keyboard!

oops - I goofed read above. PI = Poverty Income.

schicken, love your heron pic. we have Great blue. I love to watch them stalk the fish. we also have an occasional Great egret passing thru, probably on migration.

I have seen 1 or 2 of the big blue herons here. Down by the veggie garden it is a Marsh. It is not a swamp (I don't belive) there is no fish, just frogs and bugs. Not a lot of running water.

We have birds that will visit once and leave that I could not even identify. I am not a bird expert by no means. One that really had me stumped was about 8 - 9 inches long, black & white striped with an orange breast. It was at the bird feeder one winter.