It doesn't feel like Christmas here

[SeaCat]

This afternoon I went out and finished putting up the Christmas Lights. I was sweating by the time I was done. I decided it was time to cool off so the wife and I changed and headed for the beach.

Oh man this was the life. Sprawled out on a blanket on the beach watching the Beach Bunnies wander about in their tiny bikini's. Most of them had their Beach Boys on their arms and sneered at us. The waves were kicking up a bit though which kept most of them right there on the beach.

We lay there on the beach for a while until our skin was slicked with sweat then we grabbed our masks and fins. We hit the water and made our way out beyond the surf line. (This wasn't hard as the waves were only about three feet.) We worked our way out to the reef and started diving on it as we played in the swells. Oh this was nice. We were all alone out there.

After we had been out there for about an hour we made our way back in to shore. We had those three foot waves to deal with but those are fun. We did some body surfing to get in. As we lay back on our blanket the Beach Bunnies and their Monkeys looked at us a bit differently. We were nuts, insane, we had done that which they weren't willing to do.

It was 85° and sunny with a bit of wind.

It doesn't feel like the Christmases I grew up with but I don't mind.

Cat

 

[JackLuis]

It's better than Iowa.

 

[TE999]

This afternoon I went out and finished putting up the Christmas Lights. I was sweating by the time I was done. I decided it was time to cool off so the wife and I changed and headed for the beach.

Oh man this was the life. Sprawled out on a blanket on the beach watching the Beach Bunnies wander about in their tiny bikini's. Most of them had their Beach Boys on their arms and sneered at us. The waves were kicking up a bit though which kept most of them right there on the beach.

We lay there on the beach for a while until our skin was slicked with sweat then we grabbed our masks and fins. We hit the water and made our way out beyond the surf line. (This wasn't hard as the waves were only about three feet.) We worked our way out to the reef and started diving on it as we played in the swells. Oh this was nice. We were all alone out there.

After we had been out there for about an hour we made our way back in to shore. We had those three foot waves to deal with but those are fun. We did some body surfing to get in. As we lay back on our blanket the Beach Bunnies and their Monkeys looked at us a bit differently. We were nuts, insane, we had done that which they weren't willing to do.

It was 85° and sunny with a bit of wind.

It doesn't feel like the Christmases I grew up with but I don't mind.

Cat

I went up in the crawl space to get the Christmas decorations out and was sweating up a storm in nothing flat. I took 1/3 of them down, said to hell with it and took a swim in the pool. That'll have to do this year. Ho ho ho.

I don't miss that cold and snow one iota.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

There's nothing like being a junior enlisted man in both Germany and Korea to kill any appreciation a Californian might think he has of snow. The stuff is white and nasty. I'll admit it's picturesque but that picture is best viewed from the other side of a triple pane window next to a fireplace with a large buttered rum in one's paw.

 

[vrosej10]

This afternoon I went out and finished putting up the Christmas Lights. I was sweating by the time I was done. I decided it was time to cool off so the wife and I changed and headed for the beach.

Oh man this was the life. Sprawled out on a blanket on the beach watching the Beach Bunnies wander about in their tiny bikini's. Most of them had their Beach Boys on their arms and sneered at us. The waves were kicking up a bit though which kept most of them right there on the beach.

We lay there on the beach for a while until our skin was slicked with sweat then we grabbed our masks and fins. We hit the water and made our way out beyond the surf line. (This wasn't hard as the waves were only about three feet.) We worked our way out to the reef and started diving on it as we played in the swells. Oh this was nice. We were all alone out there.

After we had been out there for about an hour we made our way back in to shore. We had those three foot waves to deal with but those are fun. We did some body surfing to get in. As we lay back on our blanket the Beach Bunnies and their Monkeys looked at us a bit differently. We were nuts, insane, we had done that which they weren't willing to do.

It was 85° and sunny with a bit of wind.

It doesn't feel like the Christmases I grew up with but I don't mind.

Cat

It never feels like Xmas here. We all sit around the TV in 35c heat wish we were arse deep in snow. Some nimrods still insist on a baked dinner and pudding. By the end of it you're in a heat and food coma and probably have put on a kilo or two in one day.

 

[Misty_Morning]

Well, it has gotten a bit chilly a few nights in the past month or so over here in the Tampa area. But it warms right back up.

I was listening to the news on the radio during my ride to work today, and as I lowered the window to enjoy the weather I thought...yeah, this is nice.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'm 7th generation Floridian. Florida does get cold at times. In 1899 a low over the midwest pulled frigid Canadian air down thru the Dakotas, Oklahoma, Texas, and across the Gulf to Florida. Tampa had a blizzard and snow fell as far south as Naples. The temp in Tallahassee was minus 2 degrees. Ships reported ice in the Gulf of Mexico. The temp in Miami was 25 degrees.

So it happens.

 

[R. Richard]

I don't know about Christmas, but it does feel like the north pole here.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

9 degrees F here and bright sunshine. Is that Christmasy??

 

[Stella_Omega]

It's sunny and in the low fifties, and this chicken coop I live in has no heating beyond the kitchen stove... and my system had gotten used to 90f and higher this summer! I'm wrapped in blankets!

man, when I moved back to SoCal from Chicago, i wore t shirts all winter, for the first four years. Now I'm a typical Californian again, all whimpy in the brisk air.

 

[Misty_Morning]

ok, so the cold weather arrived tonight. It's 53F right now. But the forcast says it'll warm back up soon. Yea!

 

[Deadwood]

I'm 7th generation Floridian. Florida does get cold at times. In 1899 a low over the midwest pulled frigid Canadian air down thru the Dakotas, Oklahoma, Texas, and across the Gulf to Florida. Tampa had a blizzard and snow fell as far south as Naples. The temp in Tallahassee was minus 2 degrees. Ships reported ice in the Gulf of Mexico. The temp in Miami was 25 degrees.

So it happens.

That was the year "summer never came" all over the world. A Major volcano blew up spewing the sky with lava and ash blocking out the sun. It would not surprise me at all that you got snow. Here in Maine...in July no less,,,there was ice on the puddles "window pane thick" and this was in July.

A lot of weird weather that year due to the massively erupting volcano.

We got about a foot of snow here so it definitely feels like Christmas now. I even had my snowmobile out running down the trails for the first time this year. Now its time to go hunt down a Christmas tree and put it up for the girls. It just isn't Christmas without snow.