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September 25, 2005

Volume 6, Issue 25

If you hadn't noticed it on the calendar yet, Summer is over and Autumn has begin.

Make up a fifth season.

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In school, we learned that hundreds of years ago a rogue planet altered Earth’s orbit. Before that, there were only four seasons based on the angle of the axis to the ecliptic.

We still enjoy those same seasons; swimming in the summer, the delicate frosts of autumn, snowball fights in winter, and the gentle warmth of green spring.

But now there’s a fifth season. That’s when the Earth swings away from the sun in its long ellipse and we retreat to our burrowed sanctuaries for warmth. Even the mighty oceans freeze solid during that season.

We call that season Death.

Posted by: Jim Parkinson at September 25, 2005 7:50 PM · Permalink

I’m all for having another season, and if we are going to have another season, let it be spring. But wait, you say, we already have a spring. There are four seasons, you say, and their dates are fixed by the calendar. One of them, you say, is spring.

Rubbish. Tell that to the Hawaiians. Where’s their winter? That was a bad example. Doing without winter seems to me to be a good thing.

In Florida, we have summer, fall, and winter. Spring, if we have it, is very short. I missed spring last year. I was taking a shower.

Posted by: ErnieG at September 25, 2005 7:56 PM · Permalink

Here in the North, in the Great Lakes region, there are only two seasons, summer and winter. Summer lasts almost 4 months when we’re lucky, 3 when we aren’t. Winter lasts about 6 months when we’re lucky, 7 when we’re not.

Then there are the transistional seasons, spummer and fanter. For spummer, the weather goes cold hot cold hot cold hot and stays hot. Spummer lasts at least a month, at most two months. For fanter, the opposite happens, and it usually lasts two months.

Still, sometimes this is better than Southern California. There, they just have summer and blah.

Posted by: cranky-d at September 25, 2005 8:22 PM · Permalink

"Gray! Always is season of gray! Clouds fill sky, toilet paper on sale for price of gray McDonald's hamburger. The snow here is like casual sex; pretty when happenink but all yucky next mornink when snow dirties from gray cars that go by on streets beside gray bicycles. They call this place rainbow town. The buildings are colored on outside but inside is all the same. The people's hearts are gray. There should be more noise in place with so many people. I do not hear children laughing, just children crying. I would like to bring color to rainbow town."

Posted by: Eric at September 26, 2005 12:30 AM · Permalink