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.....a full patch out today, in January, plus fresh rudbeckia flowers, normally seen in late summer...

Not a mere suggestion of frost for weeks. 

Weird weather and nature struggling to make sense of it.

They used to say winter comes quickly round these parts and how the months fly by, but I am impressed how you are so ahead of the times that it is already 2024 where you are.

It's December ....

Have you seen where the OP takes their name from? They are just being in character

Climate change is speeding up. It seems to be increasingly ignored and sidelined. Mass case of 'head in sand'.

So is time, apparently...

A subject that fascinates me.  Time dilation for us humans will increase if the mass of the planet beneath our feet is increasing, and decrease if it’s decreasing.  Bog standard general relativity, but the devil is in the details.  It’s not really clear if mass gains (mostly asteroid and comet impacts) are more or less than mass loss (mostly the flux of a small fraction of the molecular hydrogen in the upper atmosphere achieving escape velocity and buffering off).  So there’s no great certainty if the planet is getting lighter or heavier, and so we don’t know if our time is speeding up or slowing down.  As inconsequential as this is, the lack of certainty bothers me.

My comment was somewhat more lowbrow, based on the OP believing it was already January...

Aye, but they'll be out in 2 days too 😬

I was a little <hic> sozzled at the time of posting