John W. <worthj1970@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 20, 11:04?am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't know why, but the approach of each summer fills me with dread.
> > Age or something perhaps. It used to be my favourite season in Japan.
> > What about you guys?
> >
> > I'm off to Mie tomorrow with a busload of students to visit windfarms,
> > dams, national parks and whatever, after which I'll open a bottle of
> > wine or two and raise a glass to the end of the summer from hell.

> It's been hellish hot here. Last week was wonderfully cool and low
> humidity, then when Joe had his football game on Saturday ... hellish
> hot and humid. But if summers weren't hot and winters cold I wouldn't
> love autumn and spring as much. That was one thing that, honestly,
> bothered me about life in the San Francisco area. My whole sense of
> seasons was thrown off kilter.

Ah, you didn't live in SF proper, then; it's easy to tell the seasons by
how cold and foggy it it. If it's cold, foggy, and rainy, it's winter. If
it's cold and foggy, it's summer. If it's cold, with intermittant sunny
days, it's fall or spring.

If it's warm, you're not in SF anymore.

Mike