AS: Young, scrappy and hungry-Yankeevania thread

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  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Prayers ascending indeed, for all of you.
  • Praying for all impacted by Florence. 🕯
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    I just heard from St. Sebastian that he is fine! In his words, "No biggie".
    :)
  • MooMoo Kerygmania Host
    jedijudy wrote: »
    I just heard from St. Sebastian that he is fine! In his words, "No biggie". :)

    Please urge him to rejoin us.

  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Yes, please do!
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    I shall harass ask him to join us here!
  • Long time since we heard from St Sebastian.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    Yes. I miss his tormenting of me! :D Nobody else is quite so prolific with telling tall tales about folks!
  • MooMoo Kerygmania Host
    Florence dumped a fair amount of rain, but not much wind and no landslides. Some local flooding.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    I'm glad it wasn't worse, Moo.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    I'm relieved to hear it, Moo. I'm still concerned about my godsibling in New Bern; the only contact info I have for her is via her landline and street address, and I'm guessing that neither one is functional right now.

  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    So, Fall starts tonight. *sigh* Not for us! Going to be miserable and hot until December. (That's when the leaves change here! Yes, we do have some Fall colors!)

    In 2005 we had delightful weather as soon as Hurricane Wilma passed through. That was in the end of October. If only we could have some early coolness! If y'all who have some cold weather anytime soon would just squirt it towards us, we would be ever so grateful!
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Our weather changed from hot and muggy to chilly and damp right on schedule. We should still have some Indian summer, though.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    Here in Phoenix we'll be in the low 100s until Columbus Day.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Our temperatures took a fairly sudden plummet the other day: it went from 24°C (75°F) to 16°C (61°F) in the space of an hour, and it's felt decidedly autumnal since. I'm not complaining - Autumn can stay as long as it pleases! :smiley:
  • Still in the 90’s here in Southern California. At least it hasn’t been too humid.
  • We also had a plummet this past Wednesday (Phoenix area) -- a good bit of rain raised the humidity and lowered the temperatures. By Thursday we were back up to 100F. But the early mornings and late evenings are beginning to be less hellish.
  • "Hellish" in Phoenix. Maybe I should rethink my job application to ASU! :wink:

    I like the idea of leaves changing colours in December jedijudy; that is when we start to reach our 100F! And sing Christmas carols about snow.

    Enjoy fall. I hope to get over to your country in fall one year and go somewhere where the leaf changes are spectacular!
  • Climacus wrote: »
    "Hellish" in Phoenix. Maybe I should rethink my job application to ASU! :wink:

    But when it's freezing and snowy and icy in the rest of North America we're sitting out by the pool working on our tans.
    :smile:
  • 70' here in Northern California then next week back up into the 90' and by end of week back into the 70'. What to wear oh what to wear. The plants and I are both confused.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    Climacus wrote: »
    Maybe I should rethink my job application to ASU!

    No indeed. Your acceptance will be an excuse for a Shipmeet.
  • Pigwidgeon wrote: »
    But when it's freezing and snowy and icy in the rest of North America we're sitting out by the pool working on our tans.
    :smile:
    It does need some work. I'm quite pale, and got rather burnt at the snow yesterday.
    No indeed. Your acceptance will be an excuse for a Shipmeet.
    That's a good reason. I wonder if I should mention it in my cover letter... "I simply must meet Miss Amanda and Pigwidgeon. Thank you for your consideration, etc."

  • RuthRuth Shipmate
    Niteowl wrote: »
    Still in the 90’s here in Southern California.

    Not here right on the coast! It's been absolutely lovely here. Highs at most in the mid 80s, with some days in the 70s mixed in.

    I would be so grateful for an early fall. It seems like it's been ages since we got rain in October.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    We don't have leaves turning pretty colors every year, Climacus, but when they do, it's so pretty! One December, when D-U, dear S-i-L and I were driving along I-4, the trees and bushes alongside the road were brilliantly colored!

    If you know where to look you can find the four seasons here, contrary to folks who say we don't have seasons! ;)
  • As we say in the Bay Area, we do have seasons. They're just subtle.
  • Here in central Arizona we say that the leaves don't change color in the autumn, the license plate do -- we get lots of "snow birds," residents of northern states and Canada coming to spend the winter.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    basso wrote: »
    As we say in the Bay Area, we do have seasons ...
    We get seasons in Canada too - "Winter" and "Construction". :mrgreen:

    Spring can be a bit of a non-event here - this year we went pretty much straight from shovelling snow to tee-shirts, cropped trousers and sandals.

    If you want pretty autumn colours if you move over here, @Climacus, take a wee trip up to New Brunswick - our trees are just beginning to put on their autumn clothes and they're getting prettier by the day. :smile:

  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    basso wrote: »
    They're just subtle.
    I'm going to use that phrase, basso!
  • Climacus wrote: »

    Enjoy fall. I hope to get over to your country in fall one year and go somewhere where the leaf changes are spectacular!

    There are leaf cams for that.

    Here is one from my state (color begins in October and is best toward the end of the month)

    http://www.browncounty.com/leaf-cam
  • Sabine, I clicked eagerly but nothing showed. Have others got through?
  • Yes, it worked for me, Lothlorien.
  • Thanks Kittyville. Perhaps it doesn’t like ipad. It goes to page which has a few illustrations on the bottom, but the area where there should be a photo has a brand which goes, then nothing
  • ClimacusClimacus Shipmate
    edited September 2018
    It is working for me also. Thank you sabine - I shall return in October..

    Spring here and a glorious array of yellow and purple outside my office window. Very striking.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    Hurricane Rosa on the way. Up to three inches of rain predicted for hot, dry Phoenix. Should be interesting. At least the temperature will finally fall below 100 degrees.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    Do you often get hurricanes, Miss Amanda?
    I had no idea Rosa was on her way to see you!!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited September 2018
    Goodness, are you at hurricanes beginning with R already? :astonished:

    (I'm assuming you name them in alphabetical order the same as the Atlantic ones?)
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    With apologies to Lerner and Loewe:

    In Maricopa, Yavapai and Pima*
    Hurricanes hardly happen.

    __________

    * Counties in Arizona
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    :mrgreen:
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    My fair county went for about 40 years without anything more than a tropical storm here and there. Alas. That is no longer true.
  • MooMoo Kerygmania Host
    Today, for the first time, it feels like fall. The high temperature is in the seventies, but the air is drier and there is a pleasant breeze.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    It felt like fall here, too - but we're supposed to be back to temps in the 80s this coming week.

  • RuthRuth Shipmate
    The National Weather Service is predicting rain Monday night through Wednesday here in SoCal. I can't remember the last time we had a wet fall, but my hopes are up.
  • CA still in drought? My wishes for rain for you.

    We seem to have an early taste of late spring currently...I suspect the temps to fall somewhat. And we too hope for rain.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    We're breaking and coming close to breaking heat records (91-94) here. :(
    It looks like our afternoon rains are coming to an end, so no cooling off at the end of the day, either.

    Moo and Ross, we would be ever so grateful if you would aim some of that coolness towards us. Eighty degrees would be delightful.

    Yes, this is whining and complaining. Summer is hot, humid, and long.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Eighty degrees is still pretty damn hot, if you ask me ... :flushed:

    It's cooling down nicely here - currently 13° (56° in old money) and sunny, although they're predicting 21° (70°F) later in the week, so summer hasn't quite had its last hurrah yet.
  • Here in Northern California happy to have our first rain. 9 auto accidents reported on our main road. I think I will worship God at my home today, rather then make the 30 minute drive to church. Rain, oil slicks, and fire retardant on the road are not a safe driving surface.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    Rosa is over and gone -- downgraded to a "tropical rainstorm" by the time it hit Phoenix. Lots of gentle, soaking rain, and some heavy unrelenting rain too. Some flooding, but the storm drainage systems can generally handle that. All in all, a refreshing change from the oppressive heat of summer.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Glad to hear she didn't bring anything more than that, ABR. :smile:
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    Well. Hmm. Matthew is making himself known here, even though we are quite a ways away from the center of circulation! My laurel oak was doing the Hurricane Dance™, and then the sideways rain started. Whoopie. No. Rats?

    Actually, I think our NC and SC neighbors don't need this extra rain. :'(
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    Well, rats. Matthew was the hurricane from two years ago. Michael is this one!!!
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