Is It Summer Again? Or Just a Pleasant Blip On The Screen?
On the Sunday that I set off on my bike tour (what was that? Two and a half weeks ago?), we in these foothills enjoyed a bit of summer-like heat for a few days. 95 degrees, a few 93's, 91 at midweek, then back down to the more expected range (and well below!) as the week closed out. I was able to taste that early October warmth further down the hill while riding through Sacramento, Davis, Fairfield and Benicia. Climbing up into the Southampton hills at about 4:30pm on Monday the 1st, Benicia's Welcome Committee greeted me with a sultry 99 degree happy hour to finish my sixty-four mile day. We should all be so fortunate to have good memories involving days of notable weather.
Sure... this heat will just be a blip on the screen. Nothing atounding, but certainly pleasant warmth. I hear that on Saturday we'll be treated to fair skies and low seventies air to enjoy Auburn's Community Festival at Rec Park AND the Big Time Pow Wow at the Fairgrounds. And just in time, too. Could be a cloud or two moving in after that... maybe even some decent rain coming down during the next week.
I'll be busy getting many of my favorite customers' heaters prepped for the winter to come for the next few weeks. With that unmistakable aroma that shows up when the furnace is fired up after a long summer vacation, we'll reflect on our memories of the past four or five months, and get busy on our lists of the chores that'll take us comfortably into the shorter, darker, colder days ahead.
On the Sunday that I set off on my bike tour (what was that? Two and a half weeks ago?), we in these foothills enjoyed a bit of summer-like heat for a few days. 95 degrees, a few 93's, 91 at midweek, then back down to the more expected range (and well below!) as the week closed out. I was able to taste that early October warmth further down the hill while riding through Sacramento, Davis, Fairfield and Benicia. Climbing up into the Southampton hills at about 4:30pm on Monday the 1st, Benicia's Welcome Committee greeted me with a sultry 99 degree happy hour to finish my sixty-four mile day. We should all be so fortunate to have good memories involving days of notable weather.
Sure... this heat will just be a blip on the screen. Nothing atounding, but certainly pleasant warmth. I hear that on Saturday we'll be treated to fair skies and low seventies air to enjoy Auburn's Community Festival at Rec Park AND the Big Time Pow Wow at the Fairgrounds. And just in time, too. Could be a cloud or two moving in after that... maybe even some decent rain coming down during the next week.
I'll be busy getting many of my favorite customers' heaters prepped for the winter to come for the next few weeks. With that unmistakable aroma that shows up when the furnace is fired up after a long summer vacation, we'll reflect on our memories of the past four or five months, and get busy on our lists of the chores that'll take us comfortably into the shorter, darker, colder days ahead.