FIGHT: Name the worst month

[CliffFletcher]

This November talk is crazy. It’s dark, but otherwise quite pleasant. Still some leaves on the trees. Grass is green. You can go for a walk and the sidewalks are usually clear. Autumn has a nice vibe.

March or April are clearly worse. Slush, ice, freezing-thawing. Treacherous sidewalks either covered in puddles or slick with ice. Brown gravel and grit everywhere. It’s ugly as ####. Cars are filthy - you can go through a bottle of wiper fluid in a week. And it’s been 5+ months since you could walk around in shorts or comfortably sit on a patio.

If you invited friends from overseas to Calgary and wanted them to come away thinking the city is a bleak, charmless, ####hole, you’d tell them to come in March or April.

[Drak]

Here’s my list from worst to best. This applies to the west coast Vancouver Island.

November - The absolute worst. Time shift sucks. Dark. Dreary. Cold sets in. Non stop rain. Doug fir needles and fir cones constantly all over the driveway. High winds. Nothing cool going on. The most depressing month of the year for me in these parts.

January - New Years is cool but the rest of the month is pretty dull. Inch by inch the days start getting longer though and we often get random spring like conditions.

February - Tends to have the highest energy bill at my place. The water table gets pretty high and we get some water in the cellar.

October - I dig Halloween and my brother’s birthday is located here so that’s cool. But fking November is looking at me around the corner.

September - Historic iffy month, based on school coming back from a sweet summer and feeling a bit sad about that. Carries over to when my son was still in the public school system and it was time for him to go back. You also know things are moving toward darker days. The weather is often a tease with continued hot summer but it feels different and I start thinking November is right around the corner.

December - The holidays are hit and miss for me. Lately I’ve been more positive about it and it’s been less hectic. But never was a fan when the in-laws came up. Terrible energy and stressful. The lights all over the place are sweet, though.

March - On Van island March isn’t too bad overall. Spring is showing and things are starting to bloom. I start prepping the yard and start landscaping. Longer days cometh.

April - I like April. More activities like March. We get to play jokes on the 1st. Long days are back by then and spring is pretty much in full sesh. The vibrant green landscape is beautiful.

May - May is becoming warmer on average here. It often feels like summer starts here now with the shift in season. But it’s mid Spring. I love Spring. The problem is the years are going by fast now, and by May I’m thinking, wtf? The year is almost half over already?

August - Least favorite summer month now. We get a lot of fires that catch up by this month and we’ve had periods where there’s weeks of smoke blanketing out the sun. Bad air conditions and health hazard when this happens and it’s been happening a lot. Historically though it is a month of fond memories and usually when we go on a family vacation.

July - Summer is fully here. Lots of activity in July. My wife and son have birthdays pretty much back-to-back. Sometimes it can be too hot though. But it’s pretty relaxing. When the in laws aren’t here.

June - June is my favorite. It’s a mix of Spring, my favorite season, and the start of Summer. It’s also the month when my birthday comes into play. Although I’m getting older so that aspect of my birthday can fk right off; but the time with my family is awesome.

[Ryan Coke]

The only real debate is if it’s January or February. This rationalizing about November or March is just to distract yourself from the fact that January and February are so terrible. The only thing that makes those months decent is if you’re going somewhere warm on vacation.

Winter sucks.

[woob]

November. Time change, board meetings/strategy sessions, work always gets busy the last two months, and usually the start of actual winter.

I don't mind March/April, as you're starting to get those first looks of spring, you start seeing some of the birds coming back, things are just getting brighter.

[Fuzz]

It's nice that we can finally come together as a group and disagree on something. It was getting a little too UCB/Peter12 around here.