Almost cold.

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Not bad at all.  But... when checking the temperature outside, I felt cold.  Heck, walking through the house to get back there gave me the first inklings of a chill.  It is reading 56, but... it's on the much cooler side of it.  Moisture in the air?  Dew?  Low... or high(?)... barometric pressure?  Something.  It feels cold.  I have turned off the fans down here.

Yes, here by the machine, it is 74.  Everywhere else was 72/73.  But the cool air is coming in, swirling around, even with not fans, like a serpent of cold.

Strange noises out there.  Skunk?  Racoon?  Something... strange.  It sort of hissed, or growled, at something else... a fussy child? another of it's kind? some other type of creature? or just a hiccup, sneeze, or general alert/warning?  Almost sounded like a little sneeze, but not quite.  Too... specific, like a fake sneeze.  Further out, the lowing of cattle.  Crickets in closer.  Vehicles... a semi this time, though every half hour to hour, even out here, a vehicle goes by.  Fewer vehicles than ever before, since I moved in though.

When I first moved in, it was... fairly busy.  Then it got busier.  For some years it was so busy, night and day, I felt I had lost my home.  I tuned it out, for there was little else to do.  But, since covid, and I would say for a year or so before, things started to slow back down.  It would jump, traffic, from time to time.  As if trying to bring back the "glory days" of horrid traffic.  But it just couldn't make it.

For good or ill, traffic is slower, less frequent, mostly just a thing around morning, noon, and a couple of different night shifts.  For me?  I am satisfied with less traffic.  Though, really, I am used to it, and mostly don't hear it, unless I listen for it.  Hmm, oh, but they do go through more slowly.  They really have slowed it down, mostly.  That I appreciate more than else, even if it is just in the back of my mind, somewhere being noticed by an ear in the back of the mind.

Wow.  That cool, cold really, is definitely snaking it's way in.  I may have to close the front door.  Maybe trim the windows a bit more.  A great thing.  If nights cool, and days follow, it is easier to sleep at night.

I really am hoping to get trash and recycling out.  Not sure if there is enough trash to go, but recycling should do all right with what is out and in.  Then a shower... trim first, then shower.  Dishes in.  Laundry upstairs and a start on that all.  Maybe, tonight.  It is well cool enough.  And, if it gets feeling too cold, I have... fixes for that.  I can't do much if it is too hot, but I can manage cooling temps well, fashionably perhaps, even.

I'll set the timer for an hour.  I want to just... enjoy the cool.  Though, as suggested, I may at least shut the front door, and maybe get a fatted mocha type thing going.  I am hankering for eggs and corned beef hashbrowns too.  Before or after trash? shower?  I'll... think about it as I sip my warm chocolate coffee.

Oh, it is almost seeming as if amazon has... stopped.  I ordered a few more things, but nothing has started shipping for... days now?  Yea.  I am wondering if they are closing up shop?  Very strange, but perhaps shipping has eaten them whole, and ups with it.  Those fuel costs almost can't be... negotiated.  And prices can't be raised much more?  Breaking point?  We'll see.  I have things ordered as early as August 11th which haven't even been started.  It's not just the time, but... a feeling.  As if the world is... changing.  Later.