Okay, I DID get to watch two Monarch butterflies dancing around the buddleia over the weekend; that was nice (the hummingbirds have left for the season), but I’m SO over Summer. I want it GONE – NOW! We topped 80 degrees with HUMIDITY here in Southern New England over the weekend. I fucking hate HEAT and HUMIDITY. I know a lot of folks just LOVE summer and hate to see it go, but not me – hated every moment of it. Hate the sweat. Hate feeling like every drop of energy in my body has been sucked out just by walking across the lawn or even just by sitting on the deck and watching the butterflies. It's now OCTOBER! I want the COLD! I thrive below 60 degrees! Give me a 40 degree day and I am ALIVE! We had a touch of that last week and it was GLORIOUS to be working in the yard!
I love Autumn. Absolute favorite season. Flannel lined shirts, light fog on a chilly morning. The briny smell of the North Atlantic wafting over the farm lands south of here, intermingling with scrub pine and the scent from a fireplace along the way. Throw in the peaty smell of falling leaves... There is nothing finer! It's like ingrained in my DNA; I need THAT! NOW! Right NOW!
Two more days of this inferno and then Autumn returns. Also...
I did manage to put up a dozen or so jars of Ginger Pear preserve this weekend. After the paw paw's that was the next harvest to come in.
All the is left now are the oranges. A couple more weeks on those ...
Makes what I call "Marmalade Not For The Feint Of Heart", that and INCREDIBLY martini bitters.
R
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Ginger pear preserves sound unbelievably good. When we lived in Connecticut, we canned every year. Our blueberry-lime jam won a purple rosette at the Guilford Agricultural Fair!
Sorry about your heat. We’ve been in high 80s again, but that’s not unusual for here. I would like it just a bit cooler, low 80s or high 70s. Give ME a 40-degree day and I’d sound like you do right now. Approaching 60 degrees and SG puts on his long underwear.
I am, alas one of those summer people. I love summer I love being nearly naked and I don't mind the heat and humidity, that said once September 21st it's I'm ready for fall, my second favorite season. Our hummingbirds too have left as the Salvia is or being too slow bloom and our butterfly bushes about shot. This weekend I started getting some of my fall finery and Halloween items out, but you're right it still feels warm to be getting it out. Which is one reason why I haven't bought any pumpkins for the porch or window boxes yet.
But what's this about pear preserves? Oh I bet that tastes lovely on toast?!
I don't do well in heat; health wise. I don't get folks who move to Arizona or SoCal; the heat just physically shuts me down. Perhaps it a combination of age and weight? Idunno.
What's strange is, when I was younger, I loved from late March through October. I was out in the weather every chance I could get. I was into distance cycling, easily doing 100 miles on a Saturday just lapping around the region. I had a buddy and were doing parkour on the Newport Cliff Walk (running and jumping the cliffs) well before anyone knew what it was (and before I turned 30). LOVED it! Lived in St. Pete FL for 6 years, right on the Pinellas cycling trail; I'd hit that several times a week from the house up to Tarpon Springs and back. In the Floriduh heat and humidity. Then something turned off in me sometime in my late 30's. An aversion to the heat. Been downhill ever since.
Oh, my.... The desert is no place for you, then. Of course, I love the heat --- as you know. I'm sad when summer is over, and seasonal depression hits me big time in December....
I'm no longer a sun bum so I prefer fall nowadays.
I bet your ginger pear preserves are delicious!
They are missing something this year.... just no real pop to the flavor. And I shredded up a whole rhizome of fresh ginger, too! But I DID cut WAY back on the amount of sugar. That may have been it.
I just... want snuggle weather.
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