Aaaaaand now the sky's telling the truth.

[taennyn]

Sky gods, much as I appreciate the break from the Humidity (OMG), perhaps you could have seen fit to inform the poor remains of the Amtrak gods?

Or, more specifically, I wish to register a complaint about having to lurk in the bathtub for over an hour so I could actually feel all of my toes. And fingers.* While this was not assisted by the fact that I had a sweater for insulation and ballet flats for ... well, being awesome, but oy, that rail car was COLD.


The weather. It is whacky lately. New transplants are boggling at the humidity. (Also the vehemence with which older transplants are EEEE WIND!

Ahem. My back yard is throwing apples at the house. :D

Anyway! The vehemence with which older transplants sing the praises of hats, full spectrum lights and Gore-Tec.)

You can tell it's fall. :D



*: Well, as much as I ever feel all of my fingers.

Comments

[zero_pixel_count]

...what is an amtrak?

Your yard is throwing apples. ooookay. I note not recalling any mention of an apple tree...

A hurricane made my plum tomatoes fall over, that was new. (Ok, it wasn't a hurricane by that point, and they later fell over again without any hurricane involvement whatsoever, which rather ruins the story. Now on the MK3 tomato-supporting-construction, now with 60% more canes than plants).

...and I have just after boggling quietly for - well, five lines of reply - realised that by 'transplants' you are not in fact talking about gardening... :D

[taennyn]

An Amtrak is a train company--specifically the one that uses the line that stops in both my city and Vancouver. :)

The apple tree is technically outside the back yard's fence, but it overhangs the fence. Unsurprisingly, there are a lot more apples on the ground inside the fence's boundaries. (We might have deer.)

Heeee! Architectural tomatoes!

*snerk!* I'm talking about youraugustine's baby sister and goldjadeocean, who have recently relocated to the land of Far Easier To Visit. :) My garden is a few potted herbs, the dessicated remains of unsuccessful kale and lettuce experiments, a strawberry plant, and one of the more stubborn pea vines on the planet. I ain't transplanting anything new in for a while.

[zero_pixel_count]

*facepalm* ok, I probably should have got that one.

I am still boggled by the deer, you know. Deer do not go in towns! What kind of crazy deer have you got which do not know this? :D (I just can't get my head around it no matter how I try, it's just so contrary).

[youraugustine.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, forget deer. Try grizzly bears! Moose! Plenty coyotes.

It's just you're from Over There, where y'all killed most of your wild-life off ages ago. ;)

[coastal-physics.livejournal.com]

and don't forget the elk, and the mountain sheep :)

[goldjadeocean.livejournal.com]

AND THE BUNNIES.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Heck, around here, the bunnies and the skunks and raccoons and oppossums are all happily urban folks. (Nothing quite like looking at something with a rat tail and realizing, no that is a leeetle too big for a rat.) You gotta drive, oh, maybe a mile or two from my place to get deer, and probably 15 miles for mountain lions, where we have very confused and hungry juvenile males show up in the local parks and greenbelts. Quite a bit more of drive up into the foothills of the Sierra for moose, but doable in 3 hours.

[taennyn]

We're in a green section of the city; we get deer patrols, two or three to a group, so fearless they'll walk between the house and the car. O.o; It's a little disconcerting.

[zero_pixel_count]

Hee! Actually I have my head around them other fellows now, because, you know, we don't have 'em (and in at least one case never did...) but deer, it is boggling because we *have* deer and they just don't behave that way... ("you must not do x, y and z because it will disturb the deer" was one of my childhood fundamentals...)

I don't think I've ever seen a coyote or a moose in the flesh, and while there may have been bears at the tiergarten I don't think they were the same kind... So while I can't properly imagine them, I can also deal with 'they behave like x' easier...'

[youraugustine.livejournal.com]

Deer in North America are more or less pests - large bunnies more likely to kick your head in if you startle them wrong and who will strip your trees and eat your garden. The closer you are to more undisturbed sections of green-space, the more likely you are to get deer (except where I grew up, where you didn't get deer because the coyotes and the hunters still scare the shit out of them, but did get moose because the wolves are all dead); we really don't mollycoddle them. It's BEST if you can disturb the deer into not eating your roses.

[zero_pixel_count]

Verily yours is a strange and myst'rious land. *nodnod* I suppose mine are myst'rious as well, but it's an entirely different kind of mystery.

[youraugustine.livejournal.com]

To be fair, old transplants were also boggling at the humidity, because wtf hot and humid, and that humid period, but also humid that way in SEPTEMBER, wtf.

I have discovered that sufficient application of Car makes for much nicer errands in the rain. I approve of this discovery.

[goldjadeocean.livejournal.com]

I would like to complain about the humidity. AGAIN. I dressed in rainworthy gear (wool peacoat, wool hat) and was quite comfortable being rained on, and then I caught a bus. A bus that was like unto a sauna. If I could have stripped completely I still would have been warm.

Thankfully I do not often take buses for very long; that was the bus that goes over the Lionsgate just to see how it went. The Seabus and Skytrain do not suffer from this greenhouse effect.

[taennyn]

Oh. You hadn't run into the bus effect yet. Sorry! That's a side effect of people who have been getting rained on in the cold coming into a confined warmer space. You can get the side windows almost completely fogged up. >.>

[goldjadeocean.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, THEY WERE.

[taennyn]

The Seattle response is to crack open the vent windows so the steam has somewhere to go. But Seattle doesn't exactly have the skytrain option. :)

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Our buses do not allow this strange thing you speak of, opening a window. Neither do the trains. This is quite an odd practice in a climate which closely matches that of Cairo Egypt (seriously, it does) and where you could use the trapped infrared bouncing around the insides like a solar bake oven. They also don't believe in doing any a/c if they can help it--except in the winter.

[youraugustine.livejournal.com]

It gets less obnoxious the colder it gets outside, to be fair.