Summer evenings....

[trancejeremy]

Not late at night, but usually I spend from 11pm to 12:30 hanging outside with my dogs. Which is usually peaceful but lately they've been in a "find critter and retrieve him" mode. And then when I take it away from they, they go crazy looking for it again.

 

[Mycanid]

Hey there Chimera - I know what you mean. I get up at 3:45 am nowadays.

And this from someone who used to go to sleep at 6am and sleep until 2pm when I was in high school.... I'm still not totally used to it all.

This morning I was sitting outside in the forest and everything was CRAZY quiet. You couldn't hear cars or trucks, airplanes, heck, not even birds or spuirrels. Only the wind very faintly. It was wonderful. I just sat with my eyes closed and listened for a bit. It's one of the main things I love about living wwaaaayyyyyy off the beaten track.

Trance - I remember your thread about the rabbits. Must be what you're talking about, eh?

I love the night time because not only am I personally "winding down" buti t somehow seems as if everything around me is going so too. I can concentrate, think, focus on things at hand, but am in no "hurry" somehow to approach and deal with the things at hand. My best writing and reflection comes at night. I keep a daily journal (and have since 1989) and love to go over the day and assess what when on, etc., etc. It's also the best time for creativity, I have found!

 

[Jdvn1]

Jdvn - it's too hot to do that at 1 am where you are???

Texas. Highs during the day are well above 100, lows at night in the mid-to-high 80s, all due to the humidity.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Galeros - you must live in Missouri, eh?

No,Texas.

During the day we got more wasps than anywhere else in the country I would bet.

I agree with Jdvn1 that it is too hot to do anything at anytime of the day or night in Texas during the Spring and Summer months.

 

[Jdvn1]

I agree with Jdvn1

Ah-hah! I'm not crazy!

...it is too hot to do anything at anytime of the day or night in Texas during the Spring and Summer months.

Well, sometimes, during early spring it's not amazingly horrible.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Even though I live in Texas, I do stuff like that occasionally- especially if there is a meteor shower or a comet to be seen.

Once, when I lived in San Antonio (@1988?), there was a solar flare that the guy on the news said would let the Aurora Borealis be seen even down where we were. So 3 of us hopped in a Camaro and set out on Highway 281 to get away from the city lights. Finally, we turned off the highway and went down a road just off the service road into this lightly wooded hilly area. We busted out the pop-tarts and just looked up and around...

Unfortunately, we couldn't see the Aurora, but there were deer around, so you know it was dark & quiet. Deep in the woods, we could see the porchlights of at least one house. We considered driving further into the woods to see if we would find a clearing at the crest of the hill we were on.

That is when some idiot (who may have looked a LOT like me) said "You know, this looks just like that area where they filmed Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

Somehow, the 3 of us teleported back into the Camaro, turned it around and made it back to 281 in under a second...

 

[Mycanid]

Ahhhhhhh .... TEXAS.

That explains everything.

No, I would not wander outside then either. But if the movie, tv footage is anything like what it really is you all have some beautiful sky there.

How come piles of Texans spoke up in the thread though? Hmm.... Must be a conspiracy!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

[grumpyfoghornleghornvoice]SUH! AH SAY SUH! AH am a NAYtive NEWWWWW OrLEENIAN! AH just happen to LIVE in Texas![/grumpyfoghornleghornvoice]

for about 60% of my life, in all fairness...

Army brat who sorta settled down, don'tcha know.

 

[Jdvn1]

How come piles of Texans spoke up in the thread though? Hmm.... Must be a conspiracy!

Because we're cool and like OT discussions as much as General RPG discussions.

 

[Mycanid]

Hey - don't get me wrong! I'm not comPLAINing about the fact you all are Texans! I was just giggling to myself that several of you were responding to the thread who were not terribly inclined to go outside in the middle of the night anyway. Jes struck the 'ole funny bone I guess. To be honest I've really only every know one person (in person, that is) who was from Texas. She's a wonderful lady who lives 50 miles from here or so, and is already a grandma. ('Course, if anyone deserved to have all the consolations associated with being a grandma it's her!) But in all fairness I have to say that you "online Texans" seem to be nice folks too.

ANYway ... had another one of those hot summer nights last night. My room was like a convection oven ... so I got up, kicked my Himalayan/Siamese cat off the bed (no doubt the vicious longhaired beast contributed to the ease of being able to arise!) and ... out for an evening walk again. It had cooled down wonderfully by then. I could even hear an owl hooting off the distance just over the wind.

So I just walked around a bit in the forest and watered a little garden, smelling the smell of damp earth in the heat. The sky overhead was crystal clear. One of those wierd crystal clear nights, as if you could climb a tree and stretch up your hand and ... well you get the picture. Lovely. Of course Minnie (the cat) was following me around like a faithful hound and immediately went and lay down on the wet ground/grass. Smart cat.

I love the late evenings to the early mornings ... it's the heat during the rest of the day I can do without! But it's only for a little while out of the year where I am.