Signs that autumn has arrived.

[Timewalker]

The stores here are already having sales on Halloween candy.

Yeah...my Reese's Peanut Butter Cup consumption definitely goes up in September and October.

They're not hard to make - you can easily have lots of them year-round.


It's been raining for the past several days, is expected to rain for the next few days, and that typical September chill is in the air. The current temperature is 2C and it's not out of the question for a little snow to happen (September snows don't stay).

Thank goodness for the rain, though. It'll help the people fighting the forest fires, and it's cleared the smoky air we've had. Those fires were really bad this year.

 

[RoJoHen]

The stores here are already having sales on Halloween candy.

Yeah...my Reese's Peanut Butter Cup consumption definitely goes up in September and October.

They're not hard to make - you can easily have lots of them year-round.

It's even easier to just grab a gigantic bag of them in the Halloween selection.

 

[comsol]

In St. Louis, autumn is the two weeks of daily rain that separates summer and winter.

Lived in STL for 8 years, always said the place had binary weather!

As I tell people: Nobody ever moved to St. Louis for the weather.

 

[Catarina]

Well it has been 90's all week. So the only sign here are the soybean fields changing to gold and the corn tassels browning and their leaves losing color. The weather is acting like May around here.

 

[bbailey861]

My wife has started decorating the house. Ceramic pumpkins are appearing around various tables...

 

[Green Shirt]

Surely one of the best things about Autumn and Winter not having to cut the grass.

I don't know which I hate more - grass cutting or snow shoveling.

 

[Timewalker]

Yeah...my Reese's Peanut Butter Cup consumption definitely goes up in September and October.

They're not hard to make - you can easily have lots of them year-round.

It's even easier to just grab a gigantic bag of them in the Halloween selection.

Those aren't as good, though. My recipe requires just four ingredients.

My wife has started decorating the house. Ceramic pumpkins are appearing around various tables...

Aren't you glad that Thanksgiving is just 5 weeks away, instead of at the tail end of November?

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I know it is Autumn when people begin to bitch about pumpkin spice.

 

[TRON JA307020]

(Well, for those of us in the norhtern hemisphere anyway.)


In a post in the lounge I wrote about a couple of these;

• Wearing long trousers.
• Solar powered garden-lights not being very effective any more.
• Taking comforters out of summer storage.

What are your signs?

Its still warm here and the leaves haven't changed. We still have another 10 days or so of official summer. When the actual calendar day of summer ends I cry for about 15 minutes. So yeah I would say me crying is a pretty definite sign.

I can't stand fall and winter. I need spring and summer.

 

[Catarina]

when Xmas crap shows up at Kohl's way too early.

And the smell of faux pumpkin spice air freshener filling their home decor department . Again with the spice! ;-) (since we have a thread on the subject)

 

[Catarina]

btw, Has anyone mentioned snotty, coughing children yet? They are everywhere already. school has only been in session 3 weeks here. I miss sick-free summer already.

 

[DimesDan]

btw, Has anyone mentioned snotty, coughing children yet? They are everywhere already. school has only been in session 3 weeks here. I miss sick-free summer already.

It's the equivilent to Freshers Flu, you put that many people (in this case children) in the same place after not much contact and all the germs cross contaminate and you have the increase in children with colds and the like.

The last few days we've been waking up and it's been a wee bit foggy until the sun burns it off by noon.

 

[Tim Walker]

Its sunny and warm today in Seattle, but leaves are changing color and already falling off the trees.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

It's the drought, Tim. There's a tree as I drive in one place that's already vivid crimson.

 

[auntiehill]

Fall is the start of the fun for me. First, my birthday, then Halloween (woo-hoo!), then Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's.

 

[Timewalker]

I can't stand fall and winter. I need spring and summer.

It's the opposite for me. And when the snow finally comes and stays, that will be the end of the construction zone going on outside my apartment window. Damn jackhammer going on all day... and not because they're actually fixing anything. It's just "cosmetic changes". You'd think they'd do something like fix the potholes in the parking lot, but NooOOOOOooo.

btw, Has anyone mentioned snotty, coughing children yet? They are everywhere already. school has only been in session 3 weeks here. I miss sick-free summer already.

I avoid kids as much as possible, not to mention touching elevator buttons and door handles used by the public.

People are already talking about flu shots, so I'll probably soon be getting the annual "we need your signature so we can give your father a flu shot" letter from the nursing home. One of the benefits is that as a family member, I'm allowed to get mine at the same time.

 

[Sector 7]

Today was the first day NOT in the 90s, so yeah, I guess Autumn is here. Yay! Autumn means Pumpkin Pie Spice dessert everywhere. It is my favorite time of year. Allergens are low, temperatures don't melt me, a light sweater/hoodie/jacket is plenty in the evening, leaves are changing color, football season... Yay!

 

[C. Cole-Chakotay]

Yes, just about time for the annual flu shot! I'm thinking of getting mine at Kroger later this month. I'm on Medicare, so my shot is free. I started getting flu shots around 2000 when I worked for a company that gave them to employees. I have continued getting them.

It has been cool (in the 70'sF) the past couple of days. I like this time of year. Not too cold; not too hot.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

Took this picture a few days ago,

 

[RoJoHen]

We had some chilly weather for a while. Then it rained, and it got back in the 90s. One of my plants got severely confused and had flower start blooming again. This plant typically only blooms once in the early spring.