True Harbingers of Summer: what are they in YOUR area? Here there are two:

The Snow Cone Huts just spring up out of the pavement of every parking lot in the area

and

The Mexican Popsicle carts are everywhere

I can ignore the snowcone huts, but I love those Mexican Popsicles, especially the coconut.

True Harbingers of Summer here:

No parking available near the beach

People jaywalking all over the place!

I feel as though my little town isn't mine any more when those things happen...

:hi:

:eyes: they make driving 'round town during the summertime pure hell.

I was just about to post "fewer students, more tourists".

Ah, bless 'em all - we need 'em.

with their carts! YUM!!!

There are afternoon thunderstorms just about every day. The hay is harvested.

Or are they hookers and robberies?

:shrug:

Blackberry ice cream....

Farmers plowing the fields

Strawberry festivals

Peepers

Insects return from wherever they were all winter

Kids on quads

around here, people become more stupid and obnoxious...and they even react to their surroundings much more slowly

Spring fever hits....I see it, it's noticeable enough, but in the summertime violent crime is up substantially...and I think it is because of the heat; it makes people literally NUTS

I fucking HATE the summer

Of course, living in Florida, we don't get much of either of those. Just a 9 month long frigging summer.

The humidity drives me up a wall.

actually had a nice apartment down there in Cape Coral for a couple of years ( right on a canal, where we could watch manatee swim by everyday ). I would go out there in the morning with my normal cup of coffee and five minutes into it, I was COVERED in sweat ( and I still had to go to work, already showered )! The humidity is god-awful there....you have my sympathies.

Fall is my favorite time of year by far...everything looks nice, even the air smells cleaner I swear

I know you don't get much of a change of seasons down there ( basically a long, miserably hot summer and short, somewhat chilly winter ) but it actually snowed down there one year! I couldn't believe it, myself...and we're talking about on the Gulf coast! Of course, nothing sticked...but you should have seen the looks on some of the faces in that neighborhood!!! :rofl:

I was a bagger at a grocery store, and after closing, I couldn't get in my car because the locks froze. I had to climb in through the hatchback, and get out Dukes of Hazard style after pushing the window down.

I grew up in a Maryland suburb of DC. Unfortunately, my folks decided to move down here to hell in 1980.

And, I surely agree that the air smells cleaner in cool weather. I walked outside the other day, and my shades fogged up immediately, and my hands were sticky. It is like walking through a boiling cess pool.

I get so grumpy, too. So glad I have AC.

but hang in there :thumbsup:

I miss seeing the leaves change, and were it not for the fact that I am vested and have some time more to go until retirement, I might try to find a place with 4 seasons and 4 snows. Northern Georgia, or NC, or SC maybe.

Thanks for the support!

:D

Seriously, it's May. Why does it feel like July? x(

You are down in Central TX, right?

It hasn't been AS hot the last few days. But still, it's hotter than normal for May.

Market :-)

And it's still extremely windy here...

:scared:

here, it just gets hot, but the tap water is still cool

everywhere! Goslings, ducklings, baby robins and starlings. Oh, and baby bunnehs, too. And groundhogs emerging to dine from the bird feeder and munch the odd vine of bindweed.

Oh, yeah. The fucking bindweed.

Spring in Rochester, NY is an adventure. A zillion blossoming trees. And sometimes, snow.

I despise both.

Three straight months of endless noise pollution.

:9
for me it is the heat and then the anticipation starting to build for the monsoon.

In Los Angeles.

At least, that appears to be the sign this year.

Normally? A complete lack of rain, the hills turning brown, 90 degree temps...

We used to call them "hot bugs", or EEEE OOOO bugs.

Listen here: http://www.nwf.org/kidzone/kzPage.cfm?siteId=3&departmentId=186&articleId=750

Click on the "Courting Song 2" link if you haven't heard them.

The coolest thing about cicadas when you're a kid, is that you could collect cicada's shed skins and use them to create an alien attack scenario with your plastic army men.

Quintessential "hot" sound, for me, at least. When they're making noise, you know the temperature's up.

created when the sun shines through the smoke of the tire fires at the landfill.

and the restaurants have their patios open all the time

:mad:

THIS is a stumpfucker-- Megarhyssa sp.:

deserted streets because everyone is inside in the A/C

no snowbirds -- even the holdouts are gone (which means no waiting at restaurants!)

I get to be the student for a while

Indubitably tourists. Temperatures vary too wildly to be dependable until about mid-July, and the weather always changes, but if the tourists are here, it's probably between Memorial Day and mid-September, i.e. summer. Bonus points (and extra summer-ness?) if there are so many tourists that traffic becomes noticeably worse. More out-of-state plates = more summerrrrrrr!

:rofl:

Oh, and occasionally breaching 65 F just before the sun goes down and the temperature drops back into the 50s. This is coastal norcal, northern Humboldt County.

When lots of folks are out on the lake spending the night with radios blasting :-)

Shopping for gifts for our annual trip home, and reading guide books for vacation. I won't get the worst of the summer heat until I return to the UAE in August, but it's hot enough now.

I love it when he is happy and feeling content. :)

Seems like there's one every week. Go eat hot sausage and play Chuck a Luck. Good times.

And the massive temp change about halfway up the basement stairs...from warm to cold, even though we have AC

I love lilacs too and must be having a grief moment cause I can almost imagine I am smelling them!

Thanks for the reminder!

MrG bought and planted them for me one Mother's Day in 2001. :hug:

I miss them. My mom had a lovely lilac bush when we were growing up.

Morgantown WV is the home of WVU - almost 29k students, plus several thousand faculty and staff.
Finding parking downtown is a nightmare that would scare Wes Craven, so as soon as spring semester is over and the town empties out, the locals officially welcome "summer"!

And the smell of freshly-cut grass -- one of my favorites.

guess we are all in a summertime mood

....and northerners who moved to Florida for the mild winters start bitching and moaning about the humidity...oh the humidity!

(I for one like the humidity, but I'm crazy like that.)

why DO people who move to FL for the mild winters complain about the humidity. They must think all that water is just there for show or something.

Of course it gets pretty damn humid in other parts of the south too. I grew up with dank humidity in Kentucky and Tennessee

They just show up at my window in late May, buzzing around, looking for their sugar fix.

Naturally, I scramble to get the feeders out so they don't look for greener pastures, as it were.

I love my H-birds.

Oh, and for the record, I'm drunk, too.