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[/imgleft:3eilarau] DENVER - Although we've already got a taste of summer-like weather, the official start of the season has arrived. Here are 9 summer fun facts to ponder when you slather on that sunscreen to have some fun in the sun.
1. The first day of summer is called the summer solstice. The term solstice is Latin for sun stand still. The sun is higher in the sky throughout the day, and its rays beam on the Earth at a more direct angle, causing the hotter temperatures we associate with summer.
4. Here's a fun experiment to try if you want to find out what the temperature is and don't have a thermometer. The frequency of a cricket's chirps fluctuates with the temperature, so if you count a cricket's chirps for 15 seconds and add 37, you will have the approximate outdoor temperature (in Fahrenheit).
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Mtn Gramma wrote: I'm ok with summer but really, totally, completely, sincerely, whole-heartedly, genuinely, honestly, fervently, truthfully over pine pollen. :Thud:
YES...yes,yes.....in total agreement....I'm looking forward to the end of the month when I can
spray down everything outside and THEN spend HOURS cleaning the inside of the house....there's
this fine sense of satisfaction when it's ALL done.
It's our penance for the privilege of living AMONG the pines in the forest....(I keep REMINDING
myself)....
At least the cotton from the aspens hasn't been as bad this year. None has been tracked in to amuse the cats.
Usually pollen season doesn't bother me but this year seems to be more intense and lasting longer. But like you said, comes with the territory and beats the heck out of living in the flats -- where we'd still have various pollen and city living to boot.
MIDNITE SUN RUN...10K....in Fairbanks,Alaska at approx. 65 degrees latitude the length of daylite
is NOT 14 hours and 59 minutes....but rather, approx. 22 hours and some minutes of daylite...
We try to go up every other year at Summer Solistice to savor the season....it's always so
odd...we are "early to bed,early to rise" people BUT when we are on the Salcha River at the
cabin 2 or 3 AM seems like 8 or 9 PM and you are NOT sleepy....watching the beavers play in
the slough or catching a glimpse of an eagle bringing home "dinner" to the newly hatched
eaglets, and IF you are really lucky....observe a majestic moose make its way thru the breadth
of the river and glide up the river bank and disappear into the thick undergrowth of the forest....
you just can NOT sleep! :Sunshine: :Sunshine: :Sunshine: :Sunshine: :Sunshine: :Sunshine:
