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Yay! So Ready for Spring

ThinkingOutLoud — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:02:42 GMT

per google: Spring 2023 technically starts at 5:24 p.m. EDT Monday,

March 20 when the sun will be moving directly over the Earth's equator

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SharkE — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:58:33 GMT

Hate sun, higher electric bills, maintaining grass whenever it never rains in Tx. More yahoo's out trying to see how much noise they can make. Kids in gulf carts riding up and down the road all day ending in my cul de sac and rooting back up the street.

People walking their mutts and letting them adorn your property. Nope, not much for hot months.

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bells4me — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:58:39 GMT

Not here. Don't care what the calendar says we are expecting 4 days of rain & snow.

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Kachina624 — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:06:30 GMT

@SharkE Have you considered moving back to Indiana? You sound like you hate being where you are. I don't blame you as it's very desolate, no good shopping or entertainment. Nothing to see or do and you're not willing to travel.

I, too, dread summer but it's because it's simply so hot for so long.

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SharkE — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:10:17 GMT

Nobody I care to be around up there. LOL

Too much trouble financially to switch business.

My executor down here is the preacher, nobody up there has any sense to handle complicated business.

In my old age too much trouble.

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meallen616 — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:10:31 GMT

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PhilaLady1 — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:44:05 GMT

Happy Spring! It is 47 degrees where I am. I am wearing a fleece jacket in my house. I have about a month to go before it feels like spring. I understand how some of you feel about the bad side of warm weather. Before retirement I went to bed early because I had to be up by 4:30am for work. Took a long time to fall asleep because the sun sets later, people outside making noise, crime increases in the hot weather in a densely populated city. Hahaha I must seem so negative! Well, I moved outside of city limits, don't work anymore, and I love Spring. Soon I will be in between needing the heat and the fan or air conditioner, so my energy bill will get a break for a few months. Can't wait for the weather to warm up.

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FancyPhillyshopper — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:50:14 GMT

I LOVE SPRING!!!

Dancing butterflies, blooming flowers, singing birds, buzzing bees, --Nature is waking up!

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RollTide2008 — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:51:53 GMT

I live in the midwest so March 20 being spring is like being an adult on your 18th birthday. It might be official, but you still have a long way to go.

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spiderw — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:01:48 GMT

Besides the heat and humidity which I am never comfortable in, the noise level elevates in my neighborhood when the weather warms up. The worst noise, the deafening sound of lawn mowers. The people in my neighborhood do not have large pieces of property but those lawn mowers are always out early in the morning to late afternoon. Why isn't something done to make these machines less noisy! All the technology we have and yet certain things are ignored. My sister visited for a month and couldn't believe how often the lawn mowers were out and the noise level. I don't begrudge the workers, they are trying to make a living. But these lawn companies do nothing to alleviate the noise of their archaic machines. Yes, it costs money but it would be well worth the task for our health and well being. Wishful thinking on my part.

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Pecky — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:08:27 GMT

I am so ready for spring, bring on the lawn mowers, people walking, pool parties!!!

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Desert Lily — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:24:11 GMT

I'd like to live in a paradise where the temperature fluctuates between 60 and 80 degrees, it lightly rains 1-2 times per week, the grass never grows over 3" high, shrubs don't need trimming, and it snows on Thanksgiving & Christmas just enough to cover the grass & trees but leaves nothing on the roads & sidewalks.

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Magicrat — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:37:10 GMT

Don't mind spring. Don't like the season that comes after it. Not a fan of summer. I'd like fall weather 12 months a year.

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ciao_bella — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:39:13 GMT

I like spring, if we actually have one, before it quickly turns into summer heat and humidity. I live in coastal New Jersey and summers can get terribly humid here. Never had allergies to the outdoors, but as I got older it seems like I'm allergic to pollen, cut grass, etc. So, along with the humidity, the a/c is pretty much going all the time.

I prefer fall months when it nice in the day and cool at night.

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Love to Run — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:17:54 GMT

So looking forward to warmer temps, I hate the cold. Running in the heat is tough, but I prefer that to the cold anyday.

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ninjawife — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:38:43 GMT

@spiderw wrote:
Besides the heat and humidity which I am never comfortable in, the noise level elevates in my neighborhood when the weather warms up. The worst noise, the deafening sound of lawn mowers. The people in my neighborhood do not have large pieces of property but those lawn mowers are always out early in the morning to late afternoon. Why isn't something done to make these machines less noisy! All the technology we have and yet certain things are ignored. My sister visited for a month and couldn't believe how often the lawn mowers were out and the noise level. I don't begrudge the workers, they are trying to make a living. But these lawn companies do nothing to alleviate the noise of their archaic machines. Yes, it costs money but it would be well worth the task for our health and well being. Wishful thinking on my part.

@spiderw I woke up to a lawn mower on Saturday morning. Not necessary. The grass isn't even growing yet.

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Carmie — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:48:03 GMT

I love spring. Mother Nature is in her glory with all the green and flowers. Ah, warm sunny weather.

I love summer too. We get high humidity, but it sure beats the cold. I go boating and swimming almost everyday.

Fall is beautiful, but never lasts long enough before old man winter blows in.

My neighbor has a bed full of yellow daffodils that I can see from my window. They make me happy to see them.

Out with the cold and in with the heat. YEAH!!

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SharkE — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:52:54 GMT

Yeah, the idiot men in my community in Tx. Never, ever, rains, if you want any kind of green out front your house you use a sprinkler system.

These men when the first blades of grass peek thru the ground they whip out the ol' John Deere and get to work. LOL Cracks me up. What are they mowing ?

So dumb and waste of gas.

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laluzdelmundo — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 21:04:24 GMT

Spring? Where I live (a vast, overpaved, somewhat treeless SW desert metropolis), Spring is the foyer to an endless inferno. Yes, what we have at this time of year is "pleasant," but I understand that it's simply a reminder of pain deferred

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bikerbabe — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 21:58:44 GMT

I’m unhappy over 70*.