The leaves on my maple are turning a colour other than green and I saw geese going the wrong way this weekend.

These are not good signs. It's August FFS!

Saw snowsuits in Costco in July.

Maybe the geese were confused. They'll be back in a while when they realize they set off too early!!

Home Depot yesterday was selling lawn tarps and plant wraps!

Noooooooooooooooo!

Saw somebody looking for snow plowing work on kijiji this morning...

I drove to Moncton at the weekend, and quite a lot of trees (and boy do we have trees) were on the turn. I went tubing (they take you up river with an inner tube type thing and you float on the river for three hours downstream till you get back to where you started) it was lovely a couple of weeks ago, but the water was somewhat chilly yesterday, even though the temperature was 28.

It's bloody well coming....and not wishing to be a descant of doom....but what comes after autumn....

Forecast to get into the 30's here this week, so not arriving here anytime sood

Carpe diem

After a little bit of googling this is wha I came up with...very strange "uncylopedia" website...
AUTUMN
Autumn is a very common season which often comes after Summer, before Winter and both before and after Spring. It could be seen as coming before Summer, if "Autumn" refers to this year and Summer to the next. In the same way, "Autumn" can come after Winter if Winter refers to this year and "Autumn" to the next.
It has been proven statistically that approximately 25% of a year could be regarded as "Autumn".
The order of seasons is generally Spring -> Summer -> Autumn -> Winter -> Spring...etc, but today, with the Greenhouse Effect it is becoming harder and harder to tell.
Bat****nuts

A sure sign of both autumn and a bull quarter
Autumn Economy edit
Many who are not aware of the wider pane of existence commonly known as reality panic upon becoming aware of the effects of autumn. The days become shorter, it gets cold, and the leaves on the trees turn a blood red and fall to the ground. Truly the end of days is nigh. While these people start out as simply ignorant, autumn pushes them to become bat **** insane which has some unintended positive consequences. The demand for things like sandwich boards, on which to advertise the coming apocalypse, skyrockets. The rise in the number of "crazies" also creates new demand for "anti-bat **** insane" medications, keeping many prescription drug companies afloat. Overall, the effects of autumn on the economy are generally considered to be positive...though only for the economy...because man, there's A LOT of ignorant people and they all go off the deep end in autumn, generally delaying the rest of us as we walk through downtown to work with their cries of pending doom.
Autumn as a name edit
Please note the article submitter has been smoking crack and therefore this article may be unreliable.
Autumn is a real name, given to real people of proven brilliance. People who own this name always turn out to be the best people in the universe. If you know some one who owns this name, you should give them a green jellybean. The name Autumn is famous in the scientific world, einstien having made the calculation autumn and it is known that most autumn's are sexy, in that way that only being named after a season can happen!
'Fall' v. 'Autumn'edit
It is a common mistake to believe that American 'Fall' and the English 'Autumn' are equivalent. However:
In America, Fall begins with the Autumnal Equinox (around 23rd September), whereas
The English Autumn is defined as starting 17 days after the beginning of Eton College's Winter (sic) Term (starts 23rd September). In the old days, this enabled the posh kids to have their valet collect enough conkers ahead of the townies.
Stupid Americans can't cope with words with more than one syllable so they have to use fall instead of autumn
In Australia, It is Spring, so it doesn't matter.

I've been trying to convince myself that the leaves and the grasses are still green, but there is a definate golden tinge to them now and it's feeling autumnal in the mornings and as the sun goes down too. Lots of Geese flying around practicing their Skeins getting ready to go. It's something I see with more importance these days. It used to be Oh, look geese. Now it's Oh no, look the geese are getting ready to go

It's been a mediocre summer at best. The nights have been considerably cooler than usual and that augurs well for an earlier Autumn. Some trees around my area have the Fall colour tinges. I actually prefer the Fall season against all others.

Turned our furnace back on a few days ago...

We were in a Bancroft yesterday and a few leaves were changing colour which isn't so unusual for mid August but the birds are lining up on the wires and the geese are massing. We've had fog and mist, cool nights warm days. Dammit, my tomatoes aren't even ripe yet.

Its never warm enough for long enough for the bloody water to ever warm up! One of the reasons I don't go to the beach here.

And naughty Millie. You're lucky you didn't mention the W word.

Yeah this summer sucked So did last. But unlike you i'm not too fond of fall, and winter. Spring is alright, much better than winter, but summer is the one I actually like... But it hasn't been a proper summer in Canada for awhile.

I seem to remember the last two summers were scorchers and what a wimp, the water gets warm enough -usually!