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Wet and chilly, but not freezing...proper November weather. In two days, it will be up in the 70s, a proper Indian summer.

Another Californian walking about in shorts and a t-shirt

Though I'd admit that the evenings are somewhat cooler now, which makes the duvet soooo cosy - for that "No way I'm getting out from under this" feeling in the morning!

I read about all the peoples with rain outside their windows and go I haven't seen proper rain in FOREVER, since I first went through a dry South African summer and then through a dry Californian summer - it must be about year ago I last saw rain on two days in a row!

Want to swop........

I second that, Gimme your sunshine Grif!!!

LilyRose wrote:

Sounds familiar. Our crappy heat pump died about 3 or 4 years ago. Now we have a gas fireplace in the living room, but no heat anywhere else in the house and little hope of getting it fixed anytime in the forseeable future. And it was 26F(-3C), last night!

That's awful, Lily. We're pretty lucky. We do have heating in the bedrooms and my father has offered to put in a heated towel-rail in the bathroom and a radiator in the sitting room as our Christmas present!


Din, don't go swapping away our rain - all the flowers'll die!

I thought the flowers were in the shed .......

Besides which, you know what sort of damage a triffid would do, and it would clear the nettles

Well, the weather here sucks. It is pouring SLEET, yes, pouring sleet, and lightening and thundering to boot. Sort of like HELL in those movies you see.

Tonight is supposed to get quite chilly, which means that everything will be covered with a nice slick coating of ice tomorrow.

Today was high 70s and sunny. Wanna come over, TW?

weather was quite ok today..

As usual, I am with Watcher. It is freezing and gross here. I wish I could hibernate.

The weather was gorgeous here today. It was about 75 degrees outside with blue sky and just a little bit of a breeze. It's still very warm outside, especially for November.

Florida Weather Report: Yesterday was the first day since moving into my apartment this May that the temp inside my apt has gone below 75 without the aid of air conditioner. This is good news - huge drops in my energy bills!

My energy bill was $5.83 last month.

I finally lit the pilot light in my heater. It was off all summer and fall.

Another lovely day in paradise, starting with a brisk bike ride at 7 AM, wending my way through various sleepy neighborhoods, enjoying the fall colors mixed with summer greens and flowers, and surprising the occasional person walking out to get the paper in his jammies. This was followed by a 70 degree day, mostly sunny with a few stray high clouds.

It makes me feel great.

The weather here has me totally bummed. November is my least favourite month. And that was BEFORE Roger died. So, now I have the anniversary to cope with, as well as its usual rainy, grey, cold weather.

Normally there are a few nice days in November. However, this year we have broken a record for rainfall. And the month isn't over yet.

Normally November gets about 80 hours of sunshine in our part of the world. So far, we've only had 40.

I took my dog to the dogpark today. The far end of the park is always a bit wet. Well, with all the rain we've had, there were HUGE puddles in that part of the park.

Guess whose dog decided to spend most of its time running with a couple of other dogs through that part of the park? By the time I managed to get my hands on him, he didn't have a clean or dry spot anywhere on him. Even the inside of his ears was muddy! He's spent the last few hours in the kitchen, with a baby gate up so he can't escape. I also took him for a long walk after the dog park, so he could drip dry a bit, then towelled him down with an old towell before I let him in the car.

I am SO glad I didn't bother washing the kitchen floor today!

laureanna wrote:

My energy bill was $5.83 last month.

I finally lit the pilot light in my heater. It was off all summer and fall.

Another lovely day in paradise, starting with a brisk bike ride at 7 AM, wending my way through various sleepy neighborhoods, enjoying the fall colors mixed with summer greens and flowers, and surprising the occasional person walking out to get the paper in his jammies. This was followed by a 70 degree day, mostly sunny with a few stray high clouds.

It makes me feel great.

Laureanna, can I come visit?

laureanna wrote:

My energy bill was $5.83 last month.

Do you light your house by candle?

yovargas wrote:

laureanna wrote:

My energy bill was $5.83 last month.

Do you light your house by candle?

Possibly Laureanna pays a seperate heat charge as opposed to her electricity charge?

Mine are rolled into one bill but only as a result of our major natural gas company merging with the major electric utility several years ago. The combined entity still needs to record the seperate charges on the bill. Actually, my latest gas charge (which would mostly be my heat, but also includes some dryer charges and hot water charges) was minimal - I keep the thermostat at a rather chilly 60 degrees when we are up and about and set it back to 55 degrees at night. Since we get so much sun here during the day, the house easily heats up, and also does further if I use the kitchen oven or stove, or if all the kids are taking hot showers, or if I am drying clothes. Hey, do no knock it, it is free heat otherwise being wasted!! And, I hate to say it, but I sleep better at night being (otherwise) cold and buried under blankets - I have a sort of need to cocoon when I sleep well. Better that than being too warm!!

Clear and sunny....makes me happy. Seems I sent the English weather home when I came here as my parents have been getting buckets of rain back in Pennsylvania.

yovargas wrote:

Do you light your house by candle?

No, I live in a small apartment, and the landlord pays the gas bill. But I didn't even have the pilot light for the heater on until recently, and only turned on the thermostat a few days ago, when the nights dipped down to 60 degrees. I use the laundrymat for laundry, so there's no energy bill there, just lots of quarters in the machine.

Imagine me in a chilly room, all in the dark, except for the glow of the B77 pages I'm reading at my laptop. Oh, and the sound of my fish tank filter in the background, and my refrigerator. That's about it. I make a very small footprint, when it comes to energy consumption.

Or imagine me out on the bike trail, burning no energy but my own.

Sunsilver wrote:

Laureanna, can I come visit?

Anytime. I'd love to see you. And now you have witnesses that I said yes.

I'm not used to having an A/C and heating in your house. South Africa is perfectly mild where I live except for one very hot and one very cold month each winter, so people don't bother. I'm used to walking around with a blanket draped over my shoulders in winter, and perspiring in summer. Therefore, I could leave a very small footprint, myself.

Right now Bakersfield is foggy and somewhat chilly. I'm going to need another blanket!