I love summer, but this is ridiculous! I don't even want to think about how many days we've had temperatures over 100... too many. If the humidity is at least 50% which I don't think it ever drops below that in the Dallas area, then you can tell what the heat index is by the chart above. RIDICULOUS!
I've been walking at 5:30 in the morning to try to beat the heat.... HA! It's too hot to walk any other time of the day, but it's still 89 degrees at 5:30! It's too hot to do anything, too hot to knit, too hot to go anywhere, watering the lawn is useless. The grass in the backyard is fried. I think I could bake cookies in my car while I'm at work if I wanted to. Maybe I'll try that tomorrow.
It's too hot to do anything. Thank goodness for air conditioning, because I'm sitting on the couch with a sarape over my legs and my feet are frozen!!! mmmmm nice!
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Try the frozen water guns down the bra trick. Or the frozen wet towels on your head, neck, face. Ugh. We have had non-stop overcast, fog & wind. Worst, most dreary summer ever. Finally a nice sunny day today, but the breeze was still cool.
No wonder I am going crazy. I'm doing all this on a boat with one crappy fan. Sigh.
Feel for you my dear. I think that it is hot enough here - 20°c during the evenings is a heat wave for us - doubt if I could cope with the temperatures that you guys are getting.... Hoping for a nice pleasant cool change for you!
That sounds horrible! I hope it cools down soon! But, before it does, it might be kinda fun to try baking cookies in your car. hee hee. At the very least, it would make your car smell really good! lol
There is rain in the forecast!!! One good thing is that I can sit outside drinking coffee at 4:30 in the morning and never get bit by a mosquito... cuz their wings have burned off! *evil roar*
This is a bit long but someone sent it to me today and I just had to share it with you. :)
Summer in the South
THIS JUST ABOUT SUMS IT UP!!!!!!!!!
Note: If you are not a resident of or never have lived in the hot,
humid South, you may not understand the weight of this blessing!
Bless this house, oh Lord, we cry.
Please keep it cool in mid-July.
Bless the walls where termites dine,
While ants and roaches march in time.
Bless our yard where spiders pass
Fire ant castles in the grass.
Bless the garage, a home to please
Carpenter beetles, ticks and fleas.
Bless the love bugs, two by two,
The gnats and mosquitoes that feed on you.
Millions of creatures that fly or crawl,
In the South , Lord, you've put them all!!
But this is home, and here we'll stay,
So thank you Lord, for insect spray..
YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN THE SOUTH IN JULY WHEN. . . .
The birds have to use potholders to pull worms out of the ground.
The trees are whistling for the dogs...
The best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance.
Hot water now comes out of both taps.
You can make sun tea instantly.
You learn that a seat belt buckle makes a pretty good branding iron.
The temperature drops below 95 and you feel a little chilly.
You discover that in July it only takes 2 fingers to steer your car.
You discover that you can get sunburned through your car window.
You actually burn your hand opening the car door.
You break into a sweat the instant you step outside at 7:30 a.m.
Your biggest bicycle wreck fear is, 'What if I get knocked out and
end up lying on the pavement and cook to death?'
You realize that asphalt has a liquid state.
The potatoes cook underground, so all you have to do is pull one out
and add butter, salt and pepper.
Farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to keep them from
laying boiled eggs.
The cows are giving evaporated milk.
Ah, what a place to call home. .
No where in the world would I rather be Honest Abe Giggle
And the rest if that em refers to the sometimes DRY conditions ........... sometimes we go for weeks without rain even though somehow the air still stays humid.
It's so dry that:
That the Baptists are starting to baptize by sprinkling,
The Methodists are using wet-wipes,
Presbyterians are giving rain checks,
And the Catholics are praying for the wine to turn back into water
TeeeeeeeeeHeeeeeeeee
Mata ne
Liz
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