And that's OK with me. I do see signs of Christmas though, in the form of careless drivers, speeders, red light and stop sign runners, distracted drivers, and so forth. Road rage here and there. I'm avoiding most of this seasonal stuff to the extent I can. What makes it look not a lot like Christmas are the record high temps. I want rain for Christmas. But I'm more likely to get a face full of blowing dirt.
We have a string of record highs coming up. Tomorrow will be the first in that series. We might have a record high for Christmas. The usual pattern of bone-chilling cold just before or just after Christmas might be off the table this year. It has been a strange year in many ways. 2026 will be even stranger. I'm sure of that.
Maybe record heat soon. Could be a hot Christmas. Or at least warmer than normal by a large margin. I find this weather salubrious, to say the least, being such a hater of winter weather. BUT, it is very, very, dry, and that is NOT good! Unfortunately, any precipitation we receive at this time of year is likely to be in the form of snow, sleet, freezing rain. I can do without that stuff, dry or not.
I did that several days ago. It's been so long since I've had the flu, or even a cold, I can't recall the last time. Was it maybe 2016. Maybe 2006? Not in the last eight years, certainly. I'm not afraid of vaccines. I keep expecting to see Polio make a comeback. I had all the Polio vaccines in my childhood, as they became available. Very nice weather continues, with highs much above normal for the season. Too dry though. Someone gifted me with a fruitcake and how good it is. I was not expecting that. A gift from family. The best kind. We might have some record high temps before Christmas but I'm worried about what might follow. Sooner or later, one of those stupid winter things will probably strike. So far they've been scooting off to the east and staying well north.
It looks as though we will be sailing right into Christmas with temps well above average. But it will remain very dry. That is the only problem.
Old scams and new scams Christmas music at the gym. It seems to be good to sweat by. For pumping iron. Fine weather continues. Only minor temperature variations. A very gentle roller coaster so far, in terms of our temperature variations. May it remain like that! Surely global warming can deliver a year with no significant wintery conditions, as far south as I am. Surely.
Our fine weather continues. Plenty of sunshine, cool, but not what I would consider cold. Satisfactory.
Cool and damp and cloudy but it all turns around tomorrow and we might have along spell of above average temps again. That works for me.
Not as cold as the local forecasts had it this morning, well above freezing. That is good. Maybe very light snow flurries to our north but even that is iffy. I am still hoping for a very mild winter here. A couple of things I have hanging on a fence got a bit tilted last night, tilted in opposite directions, so no wind involved and there is nothing near them that could have touched them. A very mystery! What agency was at work, what forces could have been at work? Other objects near them were not affected at all. These things are the metal parts of very old rakes, missing the wooden handles, and suspended against the fence near each other, so that the heavy parts of these rakes would be like pendula, and they would have had to move against the resistance imposed by the rough surface of the fence, so some non-negligible force would have been required, and as I say, one was canted about twenty degrees out of vertical and the other the same, but in the opposite sense, so that the ends with the tines formed an inverted "v" pointing UP. In fact these things are attached to the fence with decking screws tight enough to allow these objects to hold their current tilted positions. A microcosmic mystery indeed!
