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First Speaker

(4,858 posts) Thu Oct 13, 2022, 11:13 PM Oct 2022

It's an exceptionally beautiful October here in southern CT...

...they were all saying that the August drought and heat wave might mess up our foliage. Well--it hasn't... The early color here has been stunning, bright, bold and breathtaking. Lots of gold--usually, that comes a bit after the red maples. But everything is breaking at once now, and it's as lovely a Fall as I can remember...

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It's an exceptionally beautiful October here in southern CT... (Original Post) First Speaker Oct 2022 OP

It's just as nice in Central Connecticut VMA131Marine Oct 2022 #1

Cool. Hope to get to Middletown and Lyman's Orchard's before much longer... First Speaker Oct 2022 #2

Awesome! I live only a couple of miles from Lyman Orchards VMA131Marine Oct 2022 #3

Nice here in New Haven. Yale Bowl tomorrow, Elis against Bucknell. Going to our usual tailgate CTyankee Oct 2022 #4

Sounds like fun...my only trip to the Bowl came about 50 years ago... First Speaker Oct 2022 #5

I hope to record on a cellphone the Yale Precision Marching Band, a group that parodies Big 10 CTyankee Oct 2022 #6

VMA131Marine

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1. It's just as nice in Central Connecticut

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Thu Oct 13, 2022, 11:40 PM

Oct 2022

First Speaker

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2. Cool. Hope to get to Middletown and Lyman's Orchard's before much longer...

Reply to VMA131Marine (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 13, 2022, 11:42 PM

Oct 2022

...and get some cider...

VMA131Marine

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3. Awesome! I live only a couple of miles from Lyman Orchards

Reply to First Speaker (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 13, 2022, 11:46 PM

Oct 2022

in Middlefield.

Check out Wadsworth Falls if you get the chance.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

4. Nice here in New Haven. Yale Bowl tomorrow, Elis against Bucknell. Going to our usual tailgate

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Fri Oct 14, 2022, 12:31 PM

Oct 2022

group and we welcomed a new puppy to our festivities.

First Speaker

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5. Sounds like fun...my only trip to the Bowl came about 50 years ago...

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 14, 2022, 04:06 PM

Oct 2022

...The Game, against Harvard. The Good Guys won... I remember a friend of my father's who played for Yale in the 30s. The coach told them before the Harvard game: "Gentlemen, you are about to play football for Yale University against Harvard, some obscure prep school up near Boston. Never again in your lives will you do anything as important." And, of course, the coach was right...

CTyankee

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6. I hope to record on a cellphone the Yale Precision Marching Band, a group that parodies Big 10

Reply to First Speaker (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 15, 2022, 04:18 PM

Oct 2022

schools marching bands and show it on DU. It is fun to watch their antics.

Fun fact: the Bowl has no lights. You need to know exactly where your car is parked at the end of The Game, Harvard v. Yale, (which starts an hour early by the end of the season in November) and get out to it fast or you will need a flashlight. We nearly didn't make it a couple of years ago when a demonstration was held on the field after the band marched off. They sat down and didn't move until the presidents of both schools agreed to take another look at their investments that were causing climate change.

Two years ago, Paul McCartney was at The Game (grandkid at Yale at the time). I attended but didn't see him.

U. S. Presidents can't go to the Bowl because it cannot provide the necessary precautions.

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