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There are colorful leaves here and there, but the days remain warm. One day in the 90s next week. 🍂
We have had 90s in September, but that has been rare. The only thing I dare predict for the future is that it may be increasingly unpredictable.
90s or high 80s everyday here. It rained last week (actually it was a small storm), now many new weeds come to join life these days 😀
It clouded over so it only feels like 93F right now. Ack
Rain is beginning now and will continue sporadically for a couple days. Naturally, today is the day our new battery powered mower arrived. This saves me from having to dash around after it until later in the week. I have found that with a full squeeze of the self-propelling control bar, it proceeds quite briskly, almost alarmingly so.

Nice. That mower will make your life easier.

Our guys mowed today as the roofers have kept them out. I’m always grateful when they show up and I don’t have to do it.

Raindrops on the window AC woke me up at 5:30 this morning. Rain is a lot quieter than a nail gun, but it was right at the bedroom window. I usually wake up about then anyway with a full bladder. Oh well. I'll take an allergy pill now to unstuff my nose. Mushroom season is upon us.
I like waking to rain, not so much to hammering on the roof. Ragweed is running amok and antihistamines are necessary. We have another week of FL in the 90sF with humidity but next week we “might” be in the 70s. Come on autumn. 🍂

Mr F wakes with a full bladder and takes an allergy pill to unstuff his nose...

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Biology just got weird...

I went out for a while. It’s like the rain forest out there, 90sF with 89% humidity. I know I wouldn’t make it in a tropical climate. The humidity would kill me before the poisonous frogs. 🐸
'm thinking after these thunderstorms and warm temps that Scotland has moved to the tropics along with it's insects! Not seen any poisonous frogs though! Just flickering lights.
'm thinking after these thunderstorms and warm temps that Scotland has moved to the tropics along with it's insects! Not seen any poisonous frogs though! Just flickering lights.
We've had lightening bugs this summer, but their season is nearly over. 😀
I haven’t seen one lightning bug this year. Maybe they all got fried.
Maybe they are fed up with offering enlightenment to humans, and are considering us to be a lost cause.
Also very possible.
I have never previously heard of lightning bugs - maybe they gave up on me years ago...
I have read of glowworms being seen in the UK. They are much less flashy and flamboyant than the fireflies we have in north America.
Never seen one of those either.
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They light up the night, send messages to each other and attract mates with their signals.
The sun shines out of its arse...! Mrs A, is that you?

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Adult female fireflies of the genus Photuris mimic the flash pattern of the Photinus beetle to trap their males as prey.


Female predators of other species may use pheromones that smell like chocolate cheesecake or bananagarum to achieve a similar goal.

They do. Oh, they do...
No comment.
Spiders seen keeping fireflies as glowing prisoners that draw more prey to their webs.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/spiders/spiders-seen-keeping-fireflies-as-glowing-prisoners-that-draw-more-prey-to-their-webs
That is hoodwinking...
Same principle as females who dangle chocolate cheesecake
Ooooo @Simon J Ashcroft A little grumpy are we today ?
I had expected the cheesecake to be restng elegantly on a fine dessert plate rather than dangling like a cat toy from a stick and string. I will say that the mental image of the Mrs-A-to-be teasing you like a kitten brings a very wry grin to my phizog, @Simon J Ashcroft.

I've been teased in many ways, Mr F

I'm a little grumpy most days, Shonie. Or, as Mrs A puts it, I'm a grumpy little [insert desired expletive]. How else is a man to get some pleasure in life?

I'm not very keen on teasing. My brothers indulged in it a lot.

Reminds me of the saying: The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

A circuitous path.

Laparoscopy?

A brother's teasing and an amorous female's teasing are very different...

I am not aware that I keep my heart in my intestines.

I could believe it, as doctors are saying your stomach and brain are connected.
"Oh the toe bone's connected to the foot bone..."
Rectal-cranial inversion is a common malady that may remind one of a tur-duc-ken.
I believe having others' heads up one's arse is symptomatic of being a politician aged in years and senior in rank.
Auto-rectal-cranial inversion is a variant requiring juxtaposition of the head and arse of only one individual. It is characterized by being deeply self-centered while completely self-unaware.
... and highly supple, with one's head greased in improbable amounts of vaseline?
I have seen very long shoehorns. A pair of those might serve as specula.
That seems rather speculative.
I think, therefore I wonder.
I’m wondering how he manages to keep his head up his arse with the giant flow coming out of it all the time.
Ouroboros?
The shit manifests from both ends, so the pressure must be intense.
One would think so.
If he could be enclosed with a spherical mirror he might scare the hell out of himself. May he reflect upon the terror he has wrought and perish in a torrent of irony and self pity.
Trapped in the terror of his own thoughts.
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