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Countdown to Autumn Equinox 2025

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Reading Time: < 1 minute🎶On the first day of summer my true love gave to me… heat stroke and dysentery.🎶

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AUTUMN EQUINOX 2025
Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 2:19 PM (EST)


🎶On the first day of summer my true love gave to me
heat stroke and dysentery.🎶

Seriously though… For anyone who actually keeps up with this annual countdown tradition here, you’ve undoubtedly come to expect my usual bemoaning and belly aching that’s directly associated with the seasonal depression I feel when summer drops like an atomic bomb here in the Ohio Valley, bringing with it the typical scalding misery that everyone who lives in this region knows all too well. Triple-digit temperatures and insufferable humidity… Yep, that’s the stuff.

This year, however, I’m gonna do a full 180. I’m reaching into my virtual bag of clichés as I read the word depression I typed above. Even in sarcasm I can’t portray that horrible thing with any sort of submissive suggestion and pretend to be affected negatively by it. I refuse, as I have refused, for 8 years. And one of the things I often (preach?) to people as a measure of self-control is change your perspective, as over the years I’ve come to realize depression is more a state of mind than it is outside influences.

Changing my perspective… On this first day of summer I’ll refrain from joking about the holocaust and the anguish stemming from the realization that my least favorite season is only just now getting started. Instead, I see it as a GOOD THING. Yes, you read that right. The first day of summer is making me smile this year, as it marks only three months to go till the best time of the year; Fall. 🍂🥰🎃

Optimism wins.
 
 

Countdown to Autumn Equinox 2024

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the most frequent questions I get asked in my life is “why do you hate summer?” (Laughing) In my world, that’s like asking me why I hate ticks, traffic, houseflies, allergies, sinus congestion, insomnia, fireworks, humidity, yard work (you see where this is going).

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AUTUMN EQUINOX 2024
Sep 22, 2024 8:43 AM (EST)


Well whaddya know, it’s summer again….

One of the most frequent questions I get asked in my life is “why do you hate summer?” (Laughing) In my world, that’s like asking me why I hate ticks, traffic, houseflies, allergies, sinus congestion, insomnia, fireworks, humidity, yard work (you see where this is going). Summer brings all of it in spades, relentlessly, and refuses to let up as it unabashedly overstays its welcome like an annoying relative until this little amazing event called the autumnal equinox.

Yes, it’s that time again. The annual countdown to the demise of this dreary, dismal stretch of miserable heat and humidity the Ohio Valley seems to love so much. Once again, I’ll be cozily tucked away in my personal igloo, sheltered from the sun’s cancerous rays and all the nuclear fallout they bring with them. ‘Got everything I need right here: A/C, food, home gym, A/C, cold water, A/C, A/C…

Lookin’ forward to Fall as always. Can’t wait to get back out on the trail in cool weather, feeling leaves crunch beneath my feet and seeing pretty Halloween décor everywhere. They say the best things in life come after a degree of suffering is had…. Or maybe they don’t. Maybe I just said it because it sounds nice. Either way, only 11 more weeks of the summer hell at publish time. We’ll get there.
 
 

Countdown to Autumn Equinox 2017

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere is your 2017 countdown to the most wonderful time of the year! Autumn is coming!

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AUTUMN EQUINOX 2017
9.22.17 – 4:02pm EDT




Another endless sauna, another countdown!

Seems like every summer is worse than the last. The current stretch of days where the heat index surpasses 100° is like the front row seat in Hell that I never asked for. I miss walking in my favorite cemetery at night. I miss hiking through the woods and making outdoor videos. As I sit here and reminisce I’m reminded that relief isn’t too far off. Sitting right at 60 days at the time of publishing, Autumn is like a lone glimmer of light glistening in the distance as we mercilessly navigate a raging sea of black fire and hazy misery. The sun, or cancer ball as I’ve recently named it, looms overhead like an angry god punishing all the puny life below with furious vengeance. Only the Autumnal Equinox can save us.





Just like last year, that first 65° day will probably see me tearing my own shirt off and looking to the skies above in total euphoria. It can’t get here a moment too soon. Clean air, crunchy leaves, beautiful colors, cool breeze, and Halloween! I need it! All of it! Get here! NOW!