We had our first frost down here (1 hr from border) a few days ago. Been trying to enjoy the nice fall weather as much as possible.
No frost yet. Over last weekend, it was in the mid 80s here, but Monday the temps started to drop. We got down to 39 last night, and it only made it to about 65 today. The rest of the week we are suppose to have the highs near 70 and the lows in the upper 40s. Its suppose to be back into the mid 70s by the end of the weekend. Its been really dry around here this summer, most of the leaves falling to the ground are still a dull green. I drive my truck year around, and it gets to park in a heated garage. The only time I need to scrape the windows is if I'm away from home when the frost rolls in.
It's been a case of wiping dew off the windows and body almost every day for the last few weeks now. Unless I wait until later when it warms up and it's gone. But the forecast is for rains every day in the next week, so everything went inside yesterday, and I hooked up the trickle chargers, and put the Stabil in the tanks. It might be 7 months before they get driven again, so I filled gas tanks also before putting them to bed, and drove them one last time this season.
We just did some on here in Upstate NY on Sunday The Hopped Up Hayride- https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/the-hopped-up-hay-ride-2025-round-top-ny.1341987/
Picked buffalo berries last night. Beautiful fall. Just had our first frost Sunday, really late. Sept 4th last year we had 3" of snow.
In my area, most of the fall colors have not yet arrived. The colors on the trees are still green, dead brown, or gone. Most of the leaves laying on the ground are still green! Very few reds and yellows yet. I am wondering if we need to take a longer ride, outside of our 30 mile radius area?
I drive mine until they salt the roads, Last year I made it to Christmas Eve before I had to park it up for the winter.
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