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Isn't 1st September a depressing date?

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Fuck no.

Fly safe, Pyx_e
 

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Posted by Kitten (# 1179) on :
 
I've always found autumn to be the loveliest, and least depressing, season of the year.
 

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Posted by Adrienne (# 2334) on :
 
It's a shame this isn't in heaven, because that might be fun ...

As a serious A-S proposition thought ...thinking locally (UK) it's been a great summer. And it still is lovely; crisp cusp-of-autumn mornings, warm days. I just walked by the river, and there seem to be a lot of people out there managing to enjoy the day - some in family groups, some couples, a lot of people solo, and most with a smile or a passing friendly word.

Globally, I think 11th probably hangs more heavily on more hearts, so unless 1st is the anniversary of something bad for you, or there is something about the month-turn that has brought on real depression - in which case you have my sympathy and prayers - I'm thinking you may have to suck this one up.

Of course, if you were to go post something similar in hell, say around midnight, you could guarantee that September 2nd would be much, much worse.

A
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
I've no particular dread of any particular date but I find Tuesdays pointless and boring. No particular Tuesday, all of them.

It could date back to my childhood when we had a regular seven-days-a-week menu with little variation; Tuesday was always uncertain for while there would often be leftovers from Sunday's roast, on other occasions Mum would try to economise with unfortunate results. Dad and I implored her to do 'Tatties in the tin' (sliced potatoes, streaky bacon & sliced onion with Bisto gravy, baked in the oven) which satisfied appetites then and now but she persisted with sub-exotic concoctions recommended by Woman's Realm or some such.

Nowadays there's crap on TV, and only recently have we had football on Tuesday. The pubs never seem to be doing much, because it's mine host's traditional day off, and when the regular highlight in many towns is 'Steak Club' at Weatherspoons, it's a pretty dull day.
 

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Posted by leo (# 1458) on :
 
For me, it used to be depressing because we (staff) had to go back into school for staff meetings and stuff.

It was bad enough being bombarded with reminders for weeks before from shops proclaiming 'back to school.'

Now that I am retired, I love September 1st. It reminds me that I can get up late, have a cooked breakfast and read the paper and not bother to get dressed until noon.
 

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Or is it just me.

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It's just you.

The weather is still good, the countryside is looking wonderful at that lovely crossover between summer and autumn, when the land is still rich with abundant green vegetation, summer flowers, wildflowers and the first few brown leaves, but the fields are golden with harvest and bales of straw. The children are almost back to school, and once they go I can have the holidays I've been planning.

September is the start of the season of funfairs, the bright, gaudy glitter of lights, the thump of over-loud music, the smell of frying onions and hot dogs, to be eaten as you wander through the fair looking at the stalls with their variety of wonderfully tacky, mostly unwinnable prizes. Excited children with their parents, young people screaming in mingled pleasure and fear on the more heartstopping rides, and coming away giggling; the excitement and pulse of life as a very old tradition is renewed again with its current modern flavour.

And there's the fun of bringing back a bag of sweets or fairings, a toffee apple, sweet and crunchy and bright red, or a hairy coconut that everyone struggles to break.

September is also about the pleasure of blackberrying, and coming home with fingers stained purple, and a bag full of luscious, slightly tart fruit, to be made into pies or crumbles. Autumn is never properly autumn without blackberry crumble, for me.

It's the most beautiful time of year - the most poignant, the loveliest. You can have February instead - Christmas is only a distant memory, Easter is a way off, the weather's lousy and the palette of the land is monochrome, all whites and pearls and dark colours, day after day after day, until the appearance of the first yellow wildflowers towards the end. February is about endurance. September is about enjoying the good things, and sometimes, also being surprised by an Indian summer.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
I agree about February. Like twenty-eight Tuesdays one after another (twenty-nine in a bad year) and it's foggy and damp.

Might as well w*rk.
 

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Posted by SvitlanaV2 (# 16967) on :
 
September means the Christmas displays will be up in the shops soon. Only one month to go.
 

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Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :
 
September has never really been a problem for me, a lovely month, but when I lived in UK I hated November and February - in the 1980s I worked in care of the elderly and they were the worst months for both morbidity and mortality. February must surely qualify as the longest 28 days of the year.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
I have been gleefully buying waterproof trousers and seal skin socks for wet weather winter doggy walks.


 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
This weekend is "Labor Day weekend" in the U.S. It rarely has anything to do with labor anymore, but it does mark the end of summer.

Here in Arizona, it means that soon (I hope!) we'll be able to go outdoors again without roasting in the heat. The end of summer is a good thing.

It also means that activities will pick up. Concerts, plays, etc., pretty much shut down in the summer. Starting next weekend things really pick up.
 

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Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
September 1st reminds me that it is 14 weeks to my winter home.
 

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 
It's autumn when it feels like autumn. Why be told what to think by a calendar? If you don't like '1st September', what about 10th Shahrivar? 15th Fructidor? Geng-Shen Geng-Wu?
 

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Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 
Add me to the list of Septemberlovers. Yes, the first Monday is the "official end of summer" in the States, but school always started for me in mid-August, so "free time" summer was already over, and "dear Lord it's hot" summer couldn't be over fast enough. September means state, county, and town fairs (heck, even the Renfest), with disgusting, artery-clogging goodness your heart only lets you have once a year, but your soul insists on having at least twice. It's also the start of reasonable bike riding weather, now that the heat's started to break, which means that I can finally get back to doing metrics and centuries again after the three-month break; only fools ride unsupported all day when it's forecast to hit 105º, heat index of Hellº.
Leaves, sorry to say, aren't until October at the earliest, usually November. Ditto corduroy and tweed jacket weather. That's the best of all.
 

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Posted by Taliesin (# 14017) on :
 
I love September! School starts (and I'm a teacher...) and fresh projects begin or cry out to be started. I love buying new stationary and clean new pages and sharp pencils and I don't usually indulge myself by saying so.
so thanks.

And find yourself a big sheet of paper, and paint swirls on it. Autumnal colours? or buy an academic diary and notice that today can be the first day of your year.

and plan something nice.

 

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Posted by would love to belong (# 16747) on :
 

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
I've no particular dread of any particular date but I find Tuesdays pointless and boring. No particular Tuesday, all of them.

It could date back to my childhood when we had a regular seven-days-a-week menu with little variation; Tuesday was always uncertain for while there would often be leftovers from Sunday's roast, on other occasions Mum would try to economise with unfortunate results. Dad and I implored her to do 'Tatties in the tin' (sliced potatoes, streaky bacon & sliced onion with Bisto gravy, baked in the oven) which satisfied appetites then and now but she persisted with sub-exotic concoctions recommended by Woman's Realm or some such.

Nowadays there's crap on TV, and only recently have we had football on Tuesday. The pubs never seem to be doing much, because it's mine host's traditional day off, and when the regular highlight in many towns is 'Steak Club' at Weatherspoons, it's a pretty dull day.

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and not bother to get dressed until noon

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Oh Jesus. Did you have to?

Fly Safe Pyx_e

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I DO have a dressing gown!
 

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Posted by Pine Marten (# 11068) on :
 
I love September too, and was heartily cheered when the TV weatherman proclaimed that today is the meteorological start of autumn , my favourite season.

Today was glorious, bright sun with a refreshing breeze. Blackberries in abundance, sweating heat of summer over and done, thoughts turning to rehearsing for Advent... what's not to love?
 

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Posted by Og, King of Bashan (# 9562) on :
 
September first in the American Southwest means that it's time to buy another year's supply of roasted green chiles. Getting them ready to freeze is a half day task, but the smells are incredible, and the thought of green chile all winter takes some sting away from the end of summer.
 

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Posted by Jante (# 9163) on :
 
Also love September- but then its my birthday and wedding anniversary month and we usually have a couple of weeks holiday. looking forward to what promises to be a wonderful autumn this year
 

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Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on :
 
I love September - usually still fairly warm and sunny , but without the burning heat of high summer. It's like summer, but better Crisp, cold, sunny autumn and winter days are the best though.
 

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Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :
 
Tonight's Sunset. What's not to like?!
 

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Posted by would love to belong (# 16747) on :
 

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Isn't 1st September a depressing date?

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Fuck no.

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Isn't 1st September a depressing date?

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Fuck no.

Fly safe, Pyx_e

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Is swearing necessary to get your point across?

Could you not have said (eg) "I disagree strongly"

Are expletives not reserved for Hell anyway?

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Pyx_e can say what he damn well pleases.

And no, there are no Hell-only words. There are only the words which best express what you want to say.

Firenze
All Saints Host and Linguistic Guerrilla

[ 01. September 2013, 20:41: Message edited by: Firenze ]
 

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Posted by would love to belong (# 16747) on :
 
Fucking hell.
 

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Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
Well, at this end of the world Soring is almost upon us, although we have been enjoying daffodils. lambs and seal pups for some weeks now. My favourite sign is that the hours of daylight are increasing

Huia
 

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :
 

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Fucking hell.

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Originally posted by Chorister:
Tonight's Sunset. What's not to like?!

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Originally posted by would love to belong:
Fucking hell.

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Originally posted by Ariston:
September means state, county, and town fairs (heck, even the Renfest), with disgusting, artery-clogging goodness your heart only lets you have once a year, but your soul insists on having at least twice.

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Unfortunately the agricultural fairs around here are held during the summer. I love agricultural fairs, but I hate heat even more.

Moo
 

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Posted by Gill H (# 68) on :
 
I love autumn.

It has been really hot today here in London. I got sunburned yesterday!

Personally I hate summer with a passion. I can't bear heat, and having no energy to do anything. Our flat is a constant 30 degrees and we have fans going day and night.

Bring on cool, crisp, sunny autumn days with gorgeous colours. Cosy nights kniting and listening to audiobooks. Home made casseroles bubbling in the oven.

And best of all, Christmas still to come!
 

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Posted by Joan Rasch (# 49) on :
 
Here in Boston-land (especially in Allston, where I work for a property management outfit that mostly specializes in the student market), September first is the great musical apartments day, where one hopes that the music won't stop, leaving some hapless set of roommates on the sidewalk with their furniture..

cheers - Joan
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
Love September. I love every month, actually. each for it's own special gift it brings.

Except February. February sucks ass. Nothing good ever happens in February. the only good February I ever had was totally on vacation in Hawaii. the only way to power through MFing February.
 

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Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :
 

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As someone who was born in February, I beg to differ.*

I love September - autumn here is far and away my favourite season. The horrid heat and humidity of summer is receding, and the trees will soon begin to put on their autumn colours.

Bring it on!

* although I must confess that apart from that it's a bit crap ...
 

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Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :
 

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Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:
September first in the American Southwest means that it's time to buy another year's supply of roasted green chiles. Getting them ready to freeze is a half day task, but the smells are incredible, and the thought of green chile all winter takes some sting away from the end of summer.

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Originally posted by Ariston:

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Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:
September first in the American Southwest means that it's time to buy another year's supply of roasted green chiles. Getting them ready to freeze is a half day task, but the smells are incredible, and the thought of green chile all winter takes some sting away from the end of summer.

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YES.
Oh Sweet Jesus, Thank You for sharing this sign of Your love for us, the green chile, with us sinners who are unworthy to receive it. Green chiles are a clear refutation of Pelagius; no human being could ever do enough good works to be worthy of a lovely plate of chiles rellenos drowned in green chile (nor carne adovada stuffed sopapillas), but, by grace and grace alone, we are able to partake of such signs of Divine Grace.

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Originally posted by orfeo:
First day of spring. Also, this year, Father's Day. The sun was shining all day. My brother-in-law roasted pork on his fabulous Weber barbeque. My sister made a delicious mushroom salad. I brought the wine (Dad brought a bottle too), as well as some cheese and pate for before lunch. Later on we had brewed coffee and banana cake. We looked at photos from my sister's family's trip (first time the kids had been skiing) and Mum's recent trip to Europe.

Yeah. It sucked.

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Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :
 
It's Conway Twitty's birthday!

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Well, it is!
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
is he still alive?
 

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Posted by daisydaisy (# 12167) on :
 
I love September, and every other month too except February (I'm with you there, Comet). But it's the 1st of any month that panics me - where did the last month go
 

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Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
February here is the best month. It aways seems silly that the children go back to school after their Christmas break in early February.

Huia
 

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Posted by Avila (# 15541) on :
 
Sept 1st is new year's day for UK Methodists. The day when all the newly relocated ministers officially start work. A new year and new potentials etc etc

However it also means the new year paperchase looms - end of year accounts, property forms, annual reports.

So mixed emotions

(I find Jan as bad as Feb but then it is the time of the year when the depression clouds gather most thickly)
 

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Posted by would love to belong (# 16747) on :
 

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Originally posted by Huia:
February here is the best month. It aways seems silly that the children go back to school after their Christmas break in early February.

Huia

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Except February. February sucks ass. Nothing good ever happens in February.

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I love February. The days start lengthening at the end of December, but it's February when you really start noticing everything getting lighter. The snowdrops and aconites start coming through then. February has more of a "start the year" feel than January IMO.

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Another February supporter here! [a] It is often more springlike than we expect. [b] it's two to three days shorter than other months which seems to make more of a difference than it should, and [c] the nights are getting lighter rather than darker. I love autumn apart from the dark nights.
 

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Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on :
 
February contains snowdrops and my birthday, it is therefore awesome.
 

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Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on :
 
Today I am feeling a mild sense of schadenfreude about September. After two whole months of holidays my boyfriend (who is a schoolteacher) FINALLY has to get up in the morning and go to work like I have been doing for the past month.

(Actually he's been off work considerably longer than that but the first six weeks were sick leave which I think he would have preferred to do without.)

Apart from that, I love Paris in September. The mornings aren't too dark yet, it's still pretty warm but not excessively hot with just a bit of a nip in the air, perfect for walking about. All the people are back (in August all the Parisians leave on a mass exodus to the South) and it feels very purposeful.
 

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Posted by infinite_monkey (# 11333) on :
 
September is making applesauce, and switching mid-month from cold to hot breakfast, and the beautiful light when the sun starts setting earlier. And it's watching for the leaves to start turning, and feeling more comfortable because it's getting cooler.

There is a bit of me that feels a bit sad, when we switch into fall, but there's a lot of beauty there too. I think the trick is to find the nice things about every part of the year--summer is louder, I think, in its offerings, but September and fall have some lovely things to give us.
 

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Posted by ken (# 2460) on :
 
September. Fewer passengers on the trains I get to work, and more carriages to hold them. Result!

Also often the best weather of the year for being outdoors in, though October might be the very best. (May is good in a different way)
 

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Posted by Arabella Purity Winterbottom (# 3434) on :
 
Pluses: as Huia says, the days are getting longer and sunnier, the spring flowers are bursting out all over, and lambs are sproinging around paddocks. I can get into the garden without ending up knee deep in mud, and go for a walk in the light after work. My boss's seasonal affective disorder is lifting (a massive plus) and I'm enjoying my long drives over the Rimutaka hill for work, something that is often sheer terror in the winter.

Minuses: this is the worst early spring I can remember for pollen, so I'm wheezing madly (off to the doctor for steroids in half an hour). I came out of work yesterday to discover the car had a coating of yellow thickly applied.
 

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Posted by Angloid (# 159) on :
 
Clarification: is September the antipodean equivalent of March or February?
 

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Posted by Angloid (# 159) on :
 
Silly question really: I should be able to work it out. March!
 

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Posted by would love to belong (# 16747) on :
 
I think March, because the vernal/autumnal equinoxes (spelling?) occur in March and September
 

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Posted by would love to belong (# 16747) on :
 
Sorry for the crosspost
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
really love all the different ways we experience different months!

February for me doesn't mean snow drops - unless it's actually snow dropping off the roof onto your head. it's when winter has gone long enough that I'M OVER IT but not enough light has come back to give us that sunny-snowy spring-drunk thing that happens in March. it's after the holidays but before the dog racing and skiing season really gets going. to me, February is a long PAAAAAAUSE between the snuggle-down coziness of winter and the active craziness of prespring.

I love November. Not a lot of Alaskans would agree with me, I admit. that's when our temperatures start hitting rock bottom, and some of our most epic snowdumps happen. to me, this means frolicking in the snow but to many, I'll admit, it just means never-ending shovel time. I feel THAT dynamic in February, too.

but the best part of November to me is that I'm DONE with the busy-ness of autumn. All fish caught and processed, all wood put up, meat and berries and garden crop in the freezer, summer jobs shut down. November is when I build a nice fire, make a huge pot of stew, and curl up by a window to watch the snow fall and just RELAX.

(full disclosure: November also means BIRTHDAY!)
 

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Posted by would love to belong (# 16747) on :
 
What latitude are you at Comet and what are the daylight hours at their shortest? I think Iceland has max 2hours of daylight, not even worthwhile playing about with the clocks as its immaterial whether the extra light is before or after.
 

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Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :
 

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It's Conway Twitty's birthday!

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Posted by Graven Image (# 8755) on :
 
I love September. It is my favorite month. I hate summer heat so September means relief is on the way. The garden is full of produce. I think the main reason I like September it feels like a new year is starting so I have all kinds of plans bubbling in my head. No doubt this has to do from when I returned to a new school year.
I say WELCOME September.
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 

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Originally posted by would love to belong:
What latitude are you at Comet and what are the daylight hours at their shortest? I think Iceland has max 2hours of daylight, not even worthwhile playing about with the clocks as its immaterial whether the extra light is before or after.

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currently 59+, 60 is at the border and I'm 44 miles south of that. it's terribly southerly for me.

I just moved from 62, which is where I also spent most of my childhood, and I've also lived for ten years at 65 and one year at 70.

daylight here is (for me) really mellow. I don't know the times, but midwinter it's dark until maybe 9:30 am and gets dark again around 5pm(?) (Haven't lived here in 11 years, I don't remember exactly, just moved back in june). when I lived in FBX (65) it was about 3 hours of daylight midwinter (this is roughly equivalent to Reykjavik), and at 70 (Pt. Lay) we had a few weeks of no sunrise at all.

in all, I find it adjustable. but I grew up in this stuff, for me it's normal. as someone said up thread, it is worth it for the manic, crazy sun summers!
 

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Posted by comet (# 10353) on :
 
(so awesome living with a naturalist)
So... Yesterday's photoperiod was 14 hours, 2 minutes. Midwinter here is 6 hours. At 62, it's a little over 4 at solstice. Where I lived at 65, solstice was just shy of four hours. And again, at 70 it was around a month with no sunrise at all. That doesnt mean no daylight- just sorta twilightish on the south horizon.
 

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Posted by Rowen (# 1194) on :
 
Spring is springing out all over, where I live in Australia.... Eastern Victoria. Snow in the mountains still, so it is still chilly at times, but flowers, and sunshine, and dear little lambs and calves.
We just had a picnic lunch down by the Snowy River. Coldish, but touches of spring everywhere. And the sky and the river so blue!
 

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Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :
 
To me, September 1 just brings out an atavistic urge to buy a pencil case, get some new jeans (and wait for my Mother to do the cuffs), a few shirts from the bargain bin, and if I'm lucky, some new pants and socks.

Depression is when the snow settles in. And that's a moveable date.

Why is this in All Saints?
 

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Posted by Latchkey Kid (# 12444) on :
 
September 1 was a summers day here, and good for a BBQ. We had a fortnight of spring in late August and Sept 1 forbodes a scorching summer.
 

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Posted by would love to belong (# 16747) on :
 

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Originally posted by PeteC:
To me, September 1 just brings out an atavistic urge to buy a pencil case, get some new jeans (and wait for my Mother to do the cuffs), a few shirts from the bargain bin, and if I'm lucky, some new pants and socks.

Depression is when the snow settles in. And that's a moveable date.

Why is this in All Saints?

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Originally posted by would love to belong:

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Originally posted by PeteC:
To me, September 1 just brings out an atavistic urge to buy a pencil case, get some new jeans (and wait for my Mother to do the cuffs), a few shirts from the bargain bin, and if I'm lucky, some new pants and socks.

Depression is when the snow settles in. And that's a moveable date.

Why is this in All Saints?

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Oh heck, have I started a thread on the wrong Board again? My apologies.

I thought the title wasn't appropriate for Heaven. And I didn't want to open myself to abuse on Hell. Obviously not a Purgatory thread, so I settled for All Saints.

The replies are generally very positive for 1 September, and September in general so maybe this should be moved to Heaven.

Oh gawd, hope I won't get into trouble again for junior hosting....

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To me, September 1 just brings out an atavistic urge to buy a pencil case, get some new jeans (and wait for my Mother to do the cuffs), a few shirts from the bargain bin, and if I'm lucky, some new pants and socks.

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I love September. The best hiking weather (leaving in a couple of hours for a hiking trip!), cooking soups and casseroles, getting out sweaters for cool mornings, the smell of a golden southern Ontario late-summer meadow baked in afternoon warmth and then freshened with evening rain.

I miss the return to school, now that my kids are finished with it, and now I look for a new project to take on each fall--something requiring notebooks and pencils that will take me to libraries. And then there's always the return to choir practice.
 

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Posted by georgiaboy (# 11294) on :
 
For some reason, all of the above has reminded me of Beatrice Lillie singing 'I Hate Spring' and also of 'April in Fairbanks,' which may have been from 'New Faces.
Why?
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
My grandmother passed away on a 1st September, already a couple of years ago. Every year on that day we give grace to God for her life.
 

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Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :
 
I like September. Sept 2 is my birthday. Sept 3 is my sisters birthday. It also marks the beginning of fall which is my favorite season. The North West fall is just the start of a mild chill and the long rain. In New England you'd have the leaves change color and die and the beginning of real cold.

The beginning of September breaks the heat of August (not that there was much this year) but still is having the bounty of the short agricultural season. Berries, peaches, melons, squashes, peppers and tomatoes with flavor. All too soon we'll be left with potatoes, cabbages pumpkins and mushrooms and apples as the local provender. All good, but not as sweet as now.
 

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