Is fall coming?

Fall Transitions

09/27/11

I love fall; I love the change in temperature, but Colorado seems to have missed the memo. Instead of temperatures steadily lowering into the winter chills Colorado has gone a different route….

A couple weeks ago Colorado had some serious temperature drops. It was freezing. I had brought out the leggings, boots, and sweater dresses. This however did not last for long. Less than a week later it was 80 degrees and sunny. Now, back to the shorts, tank tops, and flip flops.

Isn’t that lovely? It’s like Colorado is on crack, well if you have never been to Colorado, our weather is constantly like this, but to make matters worse my condo complex decided that the AC should be off for the season….this made sense and was reasonable when it was 50 degrees two weeks ago but now that it is once again 80+ I really think they should reconsider this. You’d think someone who was obviously living in Colorado and deciding whether or not multiple people could use their AC they would make sure they were certain that the temperature would not raise about 65.  They should know that Colorado is not the place to take a few consecutive days of lower temperatures as the transition into fall. Colorado never plays by the books—it takes me back to a MySpace bulletin (yes, I am going that far back) titled: “You Know You Live in Colorado When…”  The one that this recent occurrence brings me back to is the one “You know you live in Colorado when you can go to school in a parka and come home in short shorts and a tank top.” SO true!

I leave school in the morning with a small jacket on a bit chilly and by the time I have come home from class I am sweltering in the tank top I had underneath the small jacket and then later that night I need to change into pants and a long sleeve shirt if I wish to go outside.

Even with its crazy, fickle weather, I love Colorado. I can’t imagine a place with pretty skylines or sunsets. Colorado is beautiful, calm, quiet, and fantastic. You can get the hustle and bustle of a city downtown, but then you can get the beautiful, calm, serene, old-dirt-road field up in a tiny mountain town. Colorado is full of diverse people; there is someone from everywhere in Colorado. It’s a wonderful place to live…but please with my lack of air conditioning could we get some consistent 60 degree weather? ;) Until next time.

xox,

Arae

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