You know summer's coming to and end when...

[AceOn6]

The school bus drivers are out practicing their routes. Hi, Denise!!!

[KarenSews2]

My friend started back to school this week, and had kids for the 1st day, yesterday! :eek:

[DaveM]

....it gets so dry that even the trees look dusty.

[ponytail]

...the ducks you feed have all migrated elsewhere.:(

My maternal instincts are all frustrated now...luckily I still have a cat and a rabbit at home...

[Rkitko]

...it starts getting colder and you notice an ever-increasing percentage of the days are overcast, rainy, or downright monsoon-like.

[Eva]

...all cats in the neighbourhead walk towards me (even from the other side of the road) and demand my attention. They probably want to mate to have little ones during the fall and they mistake me for a cat or something? :confused: It happened several times...

Eva

[Amy in Vermont]

.....the maples in the swamps beside the road begin or emit an orange hue and they are warning of frost just to the north of here....

...the Language School students are frantically getting ready for exams...

[DaveM]

Minnesotans start to wear long-sleeved shirts (hasn't happened yet).

[NinasSpaceChild]

There's a chill in the air at night in Manchester. How lovely to sit alongside the canal in the gay village with friends, drinks and the first hint of Autumn ,which is still over a month away, in the air.

[Dee]

You wake on a sunny clear Saturday morning and it's only 9°C (48°F) so you can shut down the a/c and open a window!

[Gummi]

You see tons of wallpapers on Animepaper that say: End Of Summer.

Threads like these are made on the various forums that you visit daily.

[hoops]

my anxiety level shoots thru the roof to a point of maddness and i can be found in corners crying and muttering "paper is due today paper is due today"

[sister rose]

......I get a call at work in the middle of the night and a little voice says "Don't forget school shopping next week so make sure you don't have to work"

ummm...like that couldn't have waited......*sigh*

[invsbl_wife]

The crickets sing all day and at night are joined by the cicadas and frogs.

[Elliott]

In Houston, it means it takes longer than fifteen seconds to fry an egg on the sidewalk. And that won't happen for months.

[aabram]

In Edinburgh it means when the Buses and your bank balance return to normal after the Edinburgh International Festival finishes and the sleepless nights of worrying whether you are stewarding another Concert the next day finish for another year.

[Mazzey]

I start looking through my wardrobe and prepare myself for "work" clothes ie back to school! jeans, cropped trousers, T-shirts will soon be left behaind:(

[Denise]

AceOn6 . . . ha ha.....
I REFUSE to put that bus in my driveway just yet!!! LOL!!!
I have a little over 2 weeks left before I HAVE to drive again and I usually wait until just a couple of days before to pick it up and bring it home.

I've had such a good summer that I hate to see it end... oh my..... :(

[Beth]

The crickets are chirping in the afternoon and the sunlight is angled differently... And back to school for the kids is just around the corner!

[Rkitko]

...the salmon runs begin, grabbing the attention of some Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardii).

http://www.somethingtimeless.com/images/salmon.jpg
These particular salmon won't get very far. They're patiently waiting for high tide so that they can jump over the Capitol Lake dam (Olympia, Washington, USA), only to be greeted by a warm freshwater lake that's experiencing an invasion of Eurasian water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) in the place where a cold water river should be. Sadly, few will spawn; most will succumb to disease and disorientation in the lake.

http://www.somethingtimeless.com/images/harborseal.jpg
Cute, ain't she/he?

[DaveM]

....your neighbor returns your lawnmower and borrows your snowblower.

[Rkitko]

Do they keep the leafblower indefinitely, DaveM? :D

[ponytail]

Thanks for the pictures, Rkitko. The seal is adorable.:D

[DaveM]

I don't know, Rkitko, I don't have a leaf blower.

I do have a housemate who decides that string trimmers are "broken" every time the string jams and either throws or gives them away. We go through lots of trimmers around here, even though I finally got her a pair of the old hand-operated shears, which she was able to establish were not broken. Whereupon she hired a neighbor kid to trim the lawn. He doesn't do it. So guess who hears about it?

[aabram]

but on a POSITIVE note, it also means the end of yet ANOTHER year IS nigh, and who knows.... in the next one I might even get to TWO Janis concerts!!! Whoops!! Forgot....Silver Wedding Anniversary next year...Might be busy with parties, visitors (American and British), Childrens' 18th and 21st birthdays, quarter peals...Oh Lord...time I got a job!!! Anyone want to do the cooking/ironing/ housework/walk the dog/feed the cats????? Any chance we can put 6 more hours into each day, next year???

[RedjackRyan]

All the Rudies who invaded Pittsburgh have gone home and the BBQ grills are still not re-assembled!

[Wildflower Fever]

Minnesotans start to wear long-sleeved shirts (hasn't happened yet).


As long as being casual is OK, I rarely wear long sleeves anyway, even in subzero winter. Short sleeves, gloves, and a moderately warm coat will do. I'll wear shorts as long as possible, as well, I've worn them through November in the past. I love warm weather, don't get me wrong, but I can thrive in brisk weather as well. You know ambidextorous, I guess I'm temperodextorous!:D

[Rickster]

When the pool water temp goes from 90 degrees to 70 degrees.

[ponytail]

When the local roofers start wearing shirts to work again (sigh)...

[Amy in Vermont]

In 5 minutes, the commencement exercises for the Language Schools begins. This is the first harbinger of the end of summer for us, as I said before.

For the next 10 days, we play host to the Breadloaf Writer's Conference, an annual right of passage for summer in Vermont since 1926.

We get about 10 minutes to relax before the arrival of the new crop of freshmen arrive.

I think I want to 10 again and go back to summer camp.

[Bat]

I go out on the porch, or the deck, and the trees are still green, all looks like it did yesterday, but the air! Oh My, it smells like fine wine, just a little tang to it, sweet and warm. It happens twice a year, once in June, and again in August...just a few days, but "What is so rare as a day in June? Then...if ever...come Perfect days! That is the kind of day I mean.