Monday, April 11, 2011

Spring and Fall



If you poll 100 people from NC as to what their favorite season of the year is, ninety percent, I'm sure, would say Spring or Fall. Of course, they are beautiful seasons and so deserve this distinction but, around here are becoming such a rarity.

You can be mowing the grass, watering flowers and, wearing shorts one day and be shoveling snow the next. Then you can be sitting on the sofa under a blanket and twenty four hours later flipping the switch for the AC.

I figure we get about three good weeks of Spring around here. A time we can open the windows if we enjoy having the yellow dust come in. We can go through the day being comfortable in whatever we decide to wear. If we have sunroofs or convertables it is the perfect time to use them. This all gives us electric and gas bills for one month where the total cost is like pocket change compared to the frightening ones of the past ninety days. If we refuse to wait until after Memorial Day to wear white slacks we may as well forget them for casual affairs because it will be way too hot. Planting flowers and working in the yard is a pleasant delight.......but, don't blink, it goes entirely too fast.

We also get three good weeks of Fall where the same delights we find in our three weeks of Spring hold true. Open windows, shruken utility bills and the joy of being comfortable outside. If it weren't against the law to wear white after Labor Day, we could enjoy all these clothes that are too hot for Summer again.

Lets see.....there are twelve months in a year, four seasons and fifty-two weeks. Around here we get three weeks of Spring, three weeks of Fall, twenty-three weeks of Summer and, twenty-three weeks of Winter. That doesn't seem right.

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