Fluff - are you a seasons lover or just give me what I like?

I LOVE the changing of the seasons. It's actually one of the reasons we picked East TN when we moved because it allowed us to have all the seasons. Fall is amazing here, winter is mild, spring is probably my least favorite here, and summer is okay since the humidity isn't as horrible as some of the neighboring areas.

I like the changing seasons. I'm a Fall/Winter girly. I do NOT like Summer anymore due to the humidity. It kills me now.

We're finally in Fall. I think my AC was on for the last time Friday. And now the game of how long can I hold off until I have to put the heat on. It was 11/10 last year and 11/17 the year before.

I am not a fan of summer. It's seems like it's getting more and more unbearable. And I'm in Michigan. I would never live in a warmer climate. In fact, I'm considering a move about 2.5 hours NW (on Lake Michigan) of where I currently live  and they get twice as much snow as we do here in Mid-Michigan. I'm more than happy to have more winter.

I love the changing seasons. I spent a little less than a year in California years ago, and it was just weird not having fall/winter into spring thing.

Colorado has all seasons, but I always feel like we get cheated in the spring because it snows so often into May. No flowers are planted until Memorial Day (well for me and a lot of people, but I'm sure there are some that do before) but the one time I did flowers early snow came and killed them. Then the daffodils and tulips hardly stand a chance.

As a native of Houston, I get serious envy not getting the trees changing and blooming in Fall and Spring, but I'd much rather have longer warm weather than longer cold.  I have friends in Mass and their autumns are absolutely gorgeous, but then they have snow from November to May.

I agree with everything Zee said... except i dont live in humidity... we have a dry heat... and i LOVE IT!!!

I truly truly hate to be cold... we are starting the mornings in the 60s and im not a fan... im soooo not ready...

I say all the time ill take triple digits over 50s any day of the week!!!

some see my town as a place with no seasons.. we tend to look at it as dry season and wet season.. but there are definite differences in all 4 seasons and I enjoy all of them. I look forward to the summer fog and the fall summer weather. I don't care about the rain.. put on a coat and go

I am just fine whatever the weather of the day brings.

Well, I don't mind 50s for part of the year--I like wearing sweaters in December when I previously would have been wearing a down filled coat!

Our winter here is like our fall in Iowa. It's perfect most of the time, though we do occasionally get some actually COLD days. We got to zero a couple years ago and Atlanta was a mess of broken pipes and ice everywhere from the leaking pipes.

I'm still waiting for the humidity to blow away. Normally the air is a lot drier by now. Maybe tropical storm effects?

That's a beautiful area too.  So many wonderful, scenic places to live in Michigan.  I'll never leave. 

Have you tried one of the therapy lamps that helps treat S.A.D? I had to use one when we lived in Paris and it made a big difference for me.

Autumn is the only season where I don't hate part of it. I love autumn. Spring is great except we still have winter in there. I like winter through about January 5th. I hate summer. I only like summer because I have 8 weeks off from school. I like summer for about 2 weeks. I hate hot. I hate humidity, but I like my garden and flowers. I like changing seasons.

I would be perfectly fine with just fall and winter divided equally.

One of the things that I was really looking forward to was more definition between the seasons in Oregon.  You would have laughed at me when I had my first snow here.  I ran out onto the porch and videoed it to send to my son.  I mean California weather was nice, almost always rather same, sunny even during most of the winter, but I wanted change.  I have not been here long enough to really experience much snow yet.  And what has fallen did not remain very long.  There was one ice storm that was pretty intense.  That was fun.  I just stayed home rather then attempt driving on the ice as a newbie.

I am appreciating that the heat has not been bad here.  My best friend is living inland in Newport Beach and complains about the heat and his lack of air conditioning throughout the summer.  We both check each other’s predicted weather to compare.  His sister lives in a huge house further up and on the coast and he spent many nights sleeping at her house because it has air conditioning and is on a hill much closer to the ocean so she gets beautiful cool breezes.  I keep telling him to install air conditioning since those homes never had it originally.  But when they were built you didn’t need air conditioning that close to the coast.  You might have had two or three hot days in the summer.  Certainly nothing like it is there now.

We have discussed him staying with me here in Oregon during the summers in the future.  Or maybe even moving up here full time.  But I think his sisters would protest that.  This house is incredibly well-insulated with a generous attic space above and a crawl space below.  Plus it has double paned windows.  I was beyond happy when I went through my first summer here.  It could be in the high 90s outside and this house never left the low to mid 70s inside, so I really only ran the air conditioning when I was unpacking and moving furniture aroun, working up a sweat.  If I wasn’t working hard, the temp inside was perfectly fine.  

My California house was an unlivable hot box, even with air conditioning running.  The living room and master bedroom had very high vaulted ceilings, which I loved when we bought the house.  But I didn’t realize that there was zero insulation up there though.  I had to sleep on the couch downstairs during the summer because the upstairs was so unbearably hot.  It was made worse by the giant full-to-the-ceiling windows that gathered the afternoon sun’s heat in the master bedroom to accompany that zero-insulation ceiling.  I  eventually bought a portable air conditioner and faced it a couple feet from the bed, running all night just to sleep in my bed.That was better, but it was still hot in that room.  I miss the pool and the two wood-burning fireplaces, but that is about all I miss from that house.  

I really wish this house had a wood burning fireplace.  Some of the homes in the development have them, so maybe when I downsize again, I will try to get one with a real fireplace.  There is a gas stove in the office here, which keeps that room nice and cozy, but it doesn’t replace a real crackling wood fireplace in the winter.