BS: Spring Firsts

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 May 16 - 10:48 AM

Same here Steve. All year round, windows wide open in the bedroom all night. Staying in hotels or B&B where you can't open the window, I feel trapped and suffocated.

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: MikeL2
Date: 26 May 16 - 02:17 PM

Hi

Due to the fine weather we have had earlier this year I left off my socks and will not use them again until October.

This is because I wear open toed sandals and Mrs Mike does not think that socks should be worn with sandals. As it happens neither do I.

Also short sleeved shirts were dug out although Yesterday here was bloody freezing so I donned a light long sleeved sweater.

Sun hat also appeared as I have to watch my noddle.

Cheers

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: MikeL2
Date: 26 May 16 - 02:29 PM

Hi

Due to the fine weather we have had earlier this year I left off my socks and will not use them again until October.

This is because I wear open toed sandals and Mrs Mike does not think that socks should be worn with sandals. As it happens neither do I.

Also short sleeved shirts were dug out although Yesterday here was bloody freezing so I donned a light long sleeved sweater.

Sun hat also appeared as I have to watch my noddle.

Cheers

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 May 16 - 04:52 PM

I do not wear socks with sandals ever. In fact, I wear socks on approximately four days a year, max, and never willingly. I have just one pair of shoes, black, with Velcro fastenings. I've had them for twenty years and they come out for funerals and weddings only. They are in pristine condition. I wear sandals with good treads that serve me well for going on long country walks. Merrell and Teva are my favourite brands, though I wear cheaper Karrimor ones for slouching around in. I do not possess any long-sleeved shirts. Further, I do not and will not tuck shirts into my shorts. I must have air circulating about my anatomy at all times. As far as I'm concerned, the only reason I wear clothes at all is to prevent me from being arrested. I have a coat with a fleece lining that I wear on cold winter's days, but even the thought of having to put it on makes me bloody miserable. A short-sleeve shirt with cotton gilet on top serves me well except in the coldest weather.

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 May 16 - 05:45 PM

Archie Aymslowe says "healthy breeze" rather than "air circulating:" same difference. You sound as much a F.A.R.T. as he does, Steve.

Joanne, what about those Brood V cicadas? Are the nymphs crawling yet, as they are in West Virginia?

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: CupOfTea
Date: 26 May 16 - 11:53 PM

Steve, you must be from heartier stock or in a more temperate climate or both to sleep with windows open all year! I turn the temp down at night, but weeks on end of nights below freezing are hard enough on my central heating with the windows CLOSED. Might be more common in house without central heating? The only hearty sleep-in-the-cold person I've encountered in person was Margaret MacArthur, who repaired to her van to avoid the warm.

No cicadas in Cleveland so far. I can recall large numbers in previous cycles, but nary a one in Northern Ohio that I've heard.

Joanne in Cleveland, headed off to the first outdoor festival of the year ( where I'm not camping because last time I froze)

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Senoufou
Date: 27 May 16 - 03:16 AM

Steve, you'd love living in Africa. You could wear the long, loose 'boubou' with absolutely nothing underneath, and flimsy flip-flops. I wear the female equivalent when I'm over there, and it's bliss!

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Senoufou
Date: 27 May 16 - 03:22 AM

CupofTea, if you have a 13-tog duvet or downie, you could sleep in the garden in the middle of winter and still be nice and warm. Mine is filled with soft goose down. We never ever have the central heating on at night, and ALL windows wide open. Sometimes the curtains are blowing horizontally!.

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jun 16 - 01:19 PM

First mosquito! It's LATE in the year to be seeing the first mosquito, tells you how cool it was before now.

Of all places to be hovered over, it was at the filling station, with the car next to the pump.

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jun 16 - 09:30 PM

Saw the first grizzly of spring yesterday. Old 610 and her two cubs.

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jun 16 - 02:06 PM

The birds have just about wrapped up their sex orgy season.

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Janie
Date: 02 Jun 16 - 09:11 PM

Ach! We have had mosquitoes off and on, according to temperatures and moisture, almost all winter. Not common in these parts. Maybe will become more common. Glad I am not of childbearing age.

Steve Shaw, what bug do you call the Junebug? Here in the eastern USA what we commonly call June Bugs are large, iridescent green beetles that fly during the day, not at night. When I was a kid, we commonly amused ourselves by catching them, tying a thread around a leg, and 'flying' them in circles.

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Janie
Date: 02 Jun 16 - 09:22 PM

Didn't mean to hit 'submit.' This the beetle we call June Bug in the eastern USA. While the grub can apparently cause some considerable damage in some places, hasn't been considered a significant pest where I have lived or live, in West Virginia or the northeast Piedmont of North Carolina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotinis_nitida

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jun 16 - 10:21 PM

Janie we once had "winter" mosquitos too.

There was a leak under the sink.