The sun was out yesterday and everyone was lying about in it.
Abundant Sun sounds so glorious. Today we have abundant sun and abundant wind too but hopefully it will dry up some of the mud!
Today may be a lovely 55f (13c) but by Sunday we will be down to 21f (-6c). These wild swings in temperature are hard on the animals and birds AND the trees that live outside.
By next Wednesday we will be back warm again. I fear this will be our winter. With the cold trying to establish its dominance then warm currents sweeping in to disrupt it. We actually need sustained cold out here – for the fruit and for the wheat and for the perennials – even to balance the life cycles of the insects. The birds migrations, etc.
That being said the real cold often arrives after the shortest day. So, don’t get comfy!
We have been warned though, that the next three winters will be warmer than usual. I just hate these wild swings up and down. We find that difficult to adapt to.
I am excited for my writing weekend. This weeks Letter will be published on SubStack on Sunday. Subscribe to have this delivered to your inbox on Sunday.
Have a lovely day.
Talk Monday (my Monday😀).
Celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
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It is good to see the sun after the long gray days. Enjoy.
Right? We had a lovely day in the sun!
This is similar weather to Alberta, such huge temperature swings and hard on everyone. I swear I never had so many colds as the 40 years I lived there.
Yes! It certainly does contribute to illness. In animals and humans I think.
I’m sure the pigs will appreciate warmer winters and if it leads to wetter summers they’ll like that too!
Yes they will! They are moving this wet warm winter so far!
I sometimes wonder, in the years left for me- 20, 30…? will I see the time where we have no defined seasons, no great shifts in weather patterns and needs for adaptation for hot to cold. It is a very difficult thing, a tragic thing to contemplate, yet I anticipate that time to come. I hope I am gone.
I know what you’re saying Deb! I don’t think we will see that during our lifetimes. But we will see the wild swings in weather patterns and temperatures, think. It seems as evolution takes a long while, although the human species seems to be speeding it up, I must admit.
I have lived in WA state all my life. As an adult there have always been very predictable weather patterns. We just know what to expect season after season. Not anymore, not for the last 5 years or so. The same weather comes, yet it is at different times, as if the seasons are getting later if that makes sense. We seem to be about 2 months behind what is typical. It is at times fascinating for the science lover side of me, yet incredibly disturbing as well.
For sure, extremely disturbing… It’s almost like, “What is typical?” anymore???
The weather is talking – we need to listen We have no excuse for not being prepared –
I don’t think so. I hope not. Something is creeping up though
Same here. It’s 7 C and sunny outside today.
I fear that things are shifting irrevocably. There is no ‘normal’ any more. We had such a warm winter, all the plant and insect life is out of kilter. Now, our summer, the wet season, has shifted. We are facing the earliest cyclone of the storm season for decades, and it’s a bad one. Whether it signals an extended storm season no one knows. Everything has shifted over by a couple of months. The farmers are madly trying to get the last of the cane crop in, working through the night, and the sugar mills are flat out.
Yes! The next three seasons are going to be a dress rehearsal. 😬
it is hard to go with the flow, when we realize that we as humans, are causing a lot of it
– have caused. I think the damage is done. Now we are making it worse. Just change what you can. For example; I lose my mind when I see families I know buying crates of bottled water when the water in the tap is perfectly fine. But there is nothing I can do to change their minds. I can only change mine.
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It appears there is one thing that is common no matter where you live and that is that the weather is so erratic. Hopefully the upcoming winter will be more predictable/
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The past few days have had us wondering if it is July rather than December. Heavy rain and gale force winds and yes, I see folk buying bottled water when our tap water is so good. And a friend whose reply was I don’t bother with recycling. Things can only get worse, unfortunately with many people complaining but not doing the small things they can.
I just seriously don’t understand them. For the earth (why drink something in 5 minutes that comes out of a container that lasts 400 years?) and also it costs money to buy something that we already have for free. All trickery. I don’t get it at all.
The marketers and the Spin Doctors are still winning. All we can do is make sure we never buy anything else in plastic. I have been gradually tossing out the plastic food containers collected over many years and replacing them with glass containers. Yes, it cost money, but it’s a little that I can do to save our planet..