[TheForge] Seasons (Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 32, Issue 31)

[Woolley]

Great stuff, I'll have to remember to look you up when I make it up there 
with my kids. Ha!!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:28 AM
Subject: [TheForge] Seasons (Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 32, Issue 31)


>
>> I thought summer ended January 5th. Winter is January 5th - 7th,
>> Spring January 8th - 10th then back to summer again...
>
> In Nova Scotia we (for very local values of "we") have six seasons:
>
>     Fall     -- Canadian Thanksgiving to late December.  Gradual
>                 transition from Heaven to Huddle (q.v., infra)
>
>     Solstice -- December 21 to Jan 4, sit by the fire, read books,
>                 drink cider or single-malt, ignore world. Make fudge,
>                 pralines and piggies [1], bake chocolate chip cookies,
>                 ginger cake, chocolate pie.  Swill espresso.
>
>     Huddle   -- Jan 5 to mid-May.  Ice, snow, rain, freezing rain,
>                 blattering rain, mud, fog, black t'ick o' fog.  Did I
>                 mention cold rain?  Ice-mousing season for the
>                 cat. [2] Haul storm-wracked seaweed from beach to garden.
>
>     Spring   -- Mid-May to end of June. Till and plant gardens, worry
>                 about rain, of which there is either way too much or
>                 way too little.  Onset of blackflies, ticks and
>                 mosquitoes.  Worry about late frosts.
>
>     Hustle   -- July and August. Tourists arrive. People's horrible
>                 kids are released on probabtion from school to annoy
>                 adults. Worry about tasks that have to get done in good
>                 weather.  Social calendar become crowded with events,
>                 both of which require clean jeans.
>
>     Heaven   -- Labor day to Canadian Thanksgiving (in October)
>                 No bugs, no tourists, perfect weather, ripe tomatoes.
>                 Too late to worry about warm weather tasks undone,
>                 too early to worry about winter tasks yet to do.
>
>
>
> FWIW,
> - Mike
>
> [1] Brazil nut, wrapped in caramel fondant, dipped in semi-sweet
>    chocolate.
>
> [2] Like ice fishing.  Cat wanders around snow-covered field, finds a
>    suitable hole, sits on the hard-frozen snow crust until a mouse
>    or vole pokes it head up.  Lunch on the ice.
>
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
>                                                           /V\
> mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
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