For those of you who don't know, I ride the but to and from work every day. It means I have to walk a half mile down the hill to the bus in the morning and half a mile up the hill to get home at night. Along my way I pass about 100 or so houses.
We, here on the central coast of California, have had a rather late summer. Our temperatures didn't start to rise until about a month ago, and as a result were able to spend our summer in the relative comfort of a low 70 degree summer. Only in the last month did our temperatures rise into the 80's and 90's. Now, the temperatures are falling again, and thing are actually looking a little fall like.
On my walk home yesterday, I smelled the first fire of the season. It didn't take long to find which chimney was puffing out smoke. Now, I love having a fire in my fireplace, but I normally light it when it's cold. I walked home in a short sleeved shirt, and was wondering if the temp had gotten down to the 60's or not.
Made me wonder, were the people who lit the fire just waiting for fall? or were they actually cold? We've had colder days this summer and I didn't smell andy fires burning then. Just curios.
