From Over the Hill: December Already by Peter Bloch-Hansen
HOMETOWN REAL ESTATE
The all-wise ‘they’ say that time flies when you’re having fun. I say it flies faster when you don’t have enough. Or when you’re in a hurry. So, absent all
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well into next year. And tomatoes, still ripening nicely, well into October! A sort of planetary daylight saving time? Brushing gently past the fretful issue of global (brace for it) warming, I suggest we embrace the seasonal shift. We can’t do anything about it anyway, and besides, as seniors, surely we’ve developed the patience to wait for summer’s arrival – plenty of time to have the air conditioners serviced. And yet, now that wintry weather is here, it seems just too darn soon! And who’s in a big hurry for snow shovelling anyway? Or car window scraping? I’m assuming our readers are enthusiastic snowball fighters anymore? Well, maybe. Anyway, I choose to be thankful for the wonderful autumn we’ve just enjoyed, and I hope that we have only just enough snow to get us through Christmas, like back when we were kids (forgetting, naturally, about the shovelling). So, urging you all to get your Christmas (local) shopping done early, I wish you all the very best for the season and, God and Trump willing, a wonderful New Year! Peter can be argued with at blochhansenpeter@gmail.com I I
that, how did we get to December so fast? Because our autumn was so beautiful and so-o long? As late as late October, I could loll outdoors sipping afternoon coffee. Even as I sit in my office today in early November, my neighbour’s beech tree is still hoarding her leaves. Sigh: not time to put away the lawn rake yet. Pros and cons: Getting onto the garden when spring rains just won’t quit turning the soil into chilly mud is frustrating and worrisome – will it be too late to for long-growing plants? But then, oh, those long, lovely autumns of beautiful days and gorgeous sunlight. So, the seasons are changing. As early as 2010, standing on the high balcony of the condo apartment I was renting in downtown Toronto, I noticed that the springs were getting longer, cooler and wetter, with a sudden bounce into summer by June. And the autumns were getting longer also, drier and warmer too. And this past autumn was the longest, warmest and driest I can remember. I didn’t need to dig my potatoes and onions until quite late, and they’ll last Owner / Photographer iGuide Operator / Author
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