Baby, it's COLD outside!

I've often told my youngest son that I should have named him Dennis. As it was, I wrote a short story about him entitled "Living With A Young Tornado". Does that sound like your son?

He's at least a small whirlwind. I do wonder how many toys he really HAS broken............gee...............

Hahaha! It's amazing how fast they can break things! My son, my "Dennis", broke an "unbreakable" flashlight the first time he held it. Okay, he dropped it and broke the lightbulb but, still, it said it was unbreakable and it wouldn't work after he got his paws on it.

Ah, the joys of motherhood, huh?

I'm with you! I'd be happy with summer all year long. Maybe we should move to a warmer climate? LOL

I hate to say it but I agree with you. I think we're going to have a hard, cold winter, too. I don't mind snow but we get a lot of ice storms around here and I could live my entire life without them and be very, very happy. LOL

I had to take my son to the ER last night and wasn't too bright when I grabbed my light coat. It got COLD! It actually went down to 28F yesterday morning. It's supposed to go down to 34 this morning but that was what it was supposed to go down to yesterday so it might be another below-freezing morning.

I want SUMMER!!!

I believe it, too. This entire year has been crazy. We had the above-normal rainfall this past Spring, WAY above normal. It drowned out my veggie garden, my first planting, anyway. I had to do a second planting later in the Spring so my garden wasn't as good as I was hoping.

We've had the threat of snow here in northern Virginia but, so far, we've lucked out. It doesn't normally snow until December but our first threat of it this year was early in October. I don't like it! Nope, not one bit!

I guess we'll just have to batten down the hatches and get used to it, huh?

Okay, okay, so that word has always befuddled me. A rose by any other spelling...

Seems our memories always have it really bad. I remember snowstorms that dumped 3 or 4 feet of snow before ending. As I got older, the snow never seemed to be as bad, well, except for the infamous "Winter of '79" when we had 5 feet of snow dumped on us in 2 weeks time. THAT sucked! Especially because we lived in a corner house and had more sidewalk to shovel than most. (Guess who got the job of shoveling it. ) The cars were white humps and the fence around our house completely disappeared.

Lemons and all other tropical fruits will grow just fine outside... in the summer. They have to be brought inside in the winter. I threw some lemon seeds in the ground last summer just to see if they'd grow. Well, they did. I have about a dozen little lemon trees! Yeah, I know I'll have to throw them out or build a conservatory if I want them to grow to maturity because they'll never fit inside the house. I planted one of my banana plants in the garden last summer, too. I was hoping that, with being in the ground instead of in a pot, it would produce bananas but, well, not this year. It's now back in the house in a pot. Sigh! I'll be putting my lemons and bananas under grow lamps very soon.

It actually got down to 28F here yesterday morning. WAAAAAY too cold! It's 33F right at the moment and, since the sun has yet to come up, I'm sure it's going to get even colder before it warms up some today. I'm not too fond of winter, does it show?

Prominent nipples! That's a sure sign it's cold.

I always thought tropical fruits such as bananas (which I love) and lemons (which are best serve with vodka and coke) had to be grown in tropical climates? Do you think you are maybe pushing the envelope there, me ole fruit?