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Well, at 5AM my outside thermometer registered 30 degrees.

Nice white coating on the cars and grass.

Kinda nippy down here, too. But our fall foliage has been very disappointing this year. Usually we have brilliant reds and yellows. Nothing until this week, when some leaves turned a brownish-yellow and fell off in a big windstorm.

Hello, fellow New Englanders!

It was very chilly this AM, too.

This foliage season has been the most disappointing one I can remember! A sugar maple in my yard has turned a nicer-than-expected shade of reddish-orange, but nowhere near the eye-popping neon red it usually is in Oct.

You guys have GOT to be kidding me! My kids are still going to school in shorts. And we are still running the air conditioner.

I am soooooo tired of $300 dollar electric bills.

I love Georgia, but I sure do wish the weather would get ON with it.

Hi Michelle,

Nope - not kidding - but you live in the South, and we live in the North. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> How cold (?) does it ever get in Georgia?

Nancy

WOW ! Is that per month? I was astounded to visit Florida and find out people pay as much and more to air condition as I do to heat in Alaska's winter! At least you can live with our temperatures, and we ahve genuine changes of season!

My sympathy.

Kai

Aha 1st frost and the Collards are ready for harvest. Great to eat but cooking them can really smell up the house. BTW. Are there Collards that far North? What else is ready for harvest after 1st frost? Well there are the Persimmons that can be picked and made into a pie.

It does eventually get cold! Every now and again we'll dip below 0, usually with wind chill, but we tend to only go in the teens below, not like 30's.

And we do actually get snow and ice sometimes. And EVERYBODY panics (at least all the ones that are native to the south!)

Of course none of us have snow chains or things like that on our cars to make it drivable when it snows. And when it does snow, the sun tends to come out, slush it up on the streets, and refreeze into black ice that no-one can see. So then its really fun. But this usually hits us somewhere around February (January - March). I actually remember wearing shorts one Chritsmas. That was sad.

Nooooooooooooo. :P Also no okra, although I think I have seen it in the exotic veggie section of the grocery store.



All I can think of is cranberries and pumpkins, although they start before the frost.

HI ALL

WE HAVE NOT HAD OUR FIRST FROST AS YET. LIKE MANY OF YOU THE TREES HAVE NOT HAD THEIR BEAUTIFUL FOLLAGE LIKE LAST YEAR. THE LEAVES ARE FALLING FAST. WE ARE WAITING FOR THE FIRST FROST BECASUE WE HAVE HAVE A BUGGY BUGGY SUMMER AND CANT WAIT UNTIL FROST TO GET RID OF THEM, MY HUBBY HS BEEN ALMOST EATEN ALIVE. LOL I TOLD HIM IT IS BECAUSE HE IS SO SWEET. NEXT YEAR WILL BE OUR 50TH ANNIVERSARY.


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