BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...

Subject: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: gnu
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 05:13 PM

We have had frost warnings and forecasts which we knew would not hold true. But, alas, tonight is the night. It is almost 6PM here in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. It is sunny, and the warm south borne rain which fell early in the day gave enough rise to suck in the northwest wind and clear skies which make my fingers cold as I type these words.

I thought I might transfer the double impatiens from the front flower bed to the rear of the house and gain a foot closer to the basement wall, thereby saving the most glorious planting of annuals ever in that bed for how many more days? Seems just yesterday, I set them, all of six inches tall and not as big around, a sixteen foot long row of white, red, orange and pink, which now is more broad than tall, full of blossoms with more petals than roses, and more buds than blossums.... for how many more days?

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: CarolC
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 05:21 PM

It's supposed to go down to 63 degrees F here tonight. Brrrrr....

(I'll have to wear a sweathirt over my t-shirt, shorts and flip flops if I go outside.)

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: maeve
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 06:27 PM

Gnu- I'd love to see those glorious impatiens!

I've beeen picking and hauling hundreds of rainbow-colored tomatoes all afternoon, and will cover the beans, lettuce, and basil tonight. May cover the beautiful zinnias as well. Cabbage, beets, and Kale will sweeten with the frost.

From a neighbor's yard I have pears, plums, blueberries, and cranberry bush berries. Autumn is coming in; sweetly sing cuckoo...both black- and yellow-billed!

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 06:38 PM

I'm in total denial of the end of summer -- today is the 49th of August as far as I'm concerned!

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: gnu
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 06:41 PM

Linn... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Best one I herad today by far!!!! Tks!

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: gnu
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 06:47 PM

Maeve... you sound truly blessed with all the fruit... cept fer the maters... I am goin nuts tryin ta eat maters... oh, I used to like mater sandwiches, toasted, with M Whip and pepper, but, I have the quota fer me and two male generations along with their sisters families.... I got too many tomatoes. You got pie! I got pasta.

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: Bee
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 06:52 PM

Gnu, two words: Induan Summer. I feel it in my bones, it will come soon, and you'll have those Impatiens a good while longer. (crosses fingers.)

I like this time of year, right up until late November (though I grumble a lot through hunting season, seeing as I pretty much have to stay indoors for fear of getting shot).

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: gnu
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 07:59 PM

Feared a bein shot? Ye must have some awful idiots down there in yer part a Nova Scotia. Else maybe they need a eye exam.

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 08:05 PM

This thread title bought memories of icing (also called frosting in Oz) a cake - before the cake cooled...

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 12:03 AM

You people in the 'lower 48' are farther ahead in the frost department than we in the Alaska panhandle. We have not had any frost- other than fresh snow on the mountains around us. Our high temperatures hover at 50 degrees Fahrenheit and it doesn't drop much at night.

Until recently you've had summer. This year we could hardly identify the season as such. It has stayed consistently cool (chilly?) and wet. It appears that we may go on into winter without a perceptible pause.

I volunteer as a tour guide at a local museum here in Juneau. Today a couple from Ireland visited and they said they had the worst summer ever in Ireland; sounded just like our weather.

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: gnu
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 06:22 AM

Well... most years lately, we got a hint of frost, then a few touches of frost, and so on, before we got a good frost. Our first frost of the year, this morning, is a pretty good frost. None on the grass, of course, but the rooves and vehicles are well frosted.

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: RangerSteve
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 07:43 AM

It's actually cold this morning. I had to put warm water in my coffee mug to warm it up, otherwise the coffee would have cooled off too soon. I'm shivering right now at my computer, but I'm not complaining. I've been waiting for this weather to come. it's wonderful.

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: Bee
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 09:04 AM

Being so close to the water, our area usually misses the first couple frosts - we also miss the first few warm days in spring because of the water - gotta pay somewhere.

Gnu, we live just a little too close to Halifax, so every year we get a few city boys who only fire a shotgun once a year and think if they can't see a house from where they are standing in the woods, then they must be deep in the wilderness - they're the ones who end up shooting cows and dogs and the like. Damn townies. (That last is said jokingly, for any sensitive urbanites.)

But today is a brilliant sunny day, and I'm off outside to stack me firewood. Got a beautiful dome almost cpmplete, has two cords in it, and I've another two and a half cords to go.

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 09:28 AM

Well it will time to start putting the car away at nights soon, here in the highlands of Scotland. Guess my car's lucky to have winter quarters.
XG

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: Alice
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 09:39 AM

Thread title - thought this thread was about cake

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: topical tom
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 10:53 AM

This thread takes the cake but leaves the frosting.

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: gnu
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 02:12 PM

Well, one thing that ain't sad is that a billion skeeters and black flies and some other nasty bugs died last night. I swear I saw a blackbird on my lawn grinning from ear to ear... had bugs in his teeth. Now, I can paint without the odd splash from swatting at the skeeters.

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 02:31 PM

It's a 'Dangling Conversation'

'And you read your Emily Dickinson, and I my Robert Frosting ♫♫'

XG

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: Bee
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 02:44 PM

Oh now - I knew NB was a little backward, but your birds got teeth? Now that's prehistoric! >;-P

Subject: RE: BS: Frosting is such sweet sorrow...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 03:14 AM

It's starting to feel chilly first thing here in London too.. (when I say first thing, I mean just about half an hour before dawn), so that walking to the train station is more enjoyable than waiting at the bus stop. Good for me, losing a couple of pounds with all the walking but saving a couple of pounds on my season ticket.

I can't wait til we have a frost.... trouble is, it's usually about November in the city... I really miss the crunch of grass and the jewelled beauty of the frosted spider webs... when every leaf is rimed with frost and rosehips are frosted into bright drops of blood red... booo hooo!!!

Always been my favourite time of year this... warm days, cool evenings, chilly mornings. I may even consider putting my sandals away soon... in the next 6 weeks or so.

LTS