Right now at 6pm it is 105 degrees! OMG!
Let’s see….4 days ago summer officially started. This week we have had temperatures between 99 – 107 degrees every day this week. I was up last night late and it was 80 degrees outside at 3am.
This worries me. If summer just started and we have these high temps, I don’t even want to think about how horrible it will be in August. Years ago we had an entire month of 100+ degree days and it was absolutely horrible.
Now the garden is going gang busters because the mix of storms we’ve had then the heat has got everything growing up a storm, but who wants to go out and pick anything when you step outside and immediately need to go take a shower?
Just talked to Hubby and he is dreading this weekend since he is going to have to mow. Now an average yard in this heat wave sucks but we live on 10 acres and mow 3 acres of it around the house. That’s a lot of work in the heat. He is going to have to start at the break of dawn in order to not roast to death and this is only the end of June – ECK!
I’m not looking forward to the electric bills for the rest of the summer either. I’m old. I’m a woman. I’m menopausal. I do not do heat well. Unless I’m sitting on the beach with a cool Margarita in my hand and can take a dip in the ocean. Then I’m fine. I’m also not wearing much and who cares if I sweat in my swimsuit?
Not that it’s a pretty sight by a long shot but this may soon be my daily wear :0) Then I can just go hose off when I get too hot and my swimsuit would be dry before I got back in the house.
Can we please just skip forward to, let’s say – September? Then the heat wave should be over and it will be closer to my grandbaby being born. Oh, gosh! I feel so sorry for my kid being pregnant in during a summer like this one.
What do you do to stay cool?
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Posted by jeanhasbeenshopping on June 25, 2009 at 7:31 pm
It was 103 today and overcast! I can relate to this extreme heat. To stay cool, I swim in the blow up pool.
Posted by delaney55 on June 25, 2009 at 7:51 pm
We got a big above ground pool last summer but we really don’t have a level area to put it so Hubby took it down. I really wish it was up even if it is lopsided. Who cares? At least I could get in it and float. Maybe I need a big kiddie pool.
Posted by Smart Mouth Broad on June 25, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Oh yes, I know how you feel. We had our family reunion in Alabama and I made a vote that the next one NOT be in the heat of the summer. It was still 102 degrees at 6pm. UGH. I agree 100% with you. A cold drink with your feet in the water at the beach will keep you cool and happy. Now if I can figure out how to get my desk to the beach.
Posted by delaney55 on June 25, 2009 at 9:18 pm
I’m about 1200 miles in either direction from a decent beach so unfortunately I think the kiddie pool will be as close as I get. Bummer-Summer.
Posted by Lis Garrett on June 26, 2009 at 4:30 am
For once, I’m glad I live in upstate New York. But to me, anything above 80 degrees is pushing HOT. I would absolutely melt at 100+. We do have terrible winters, though, that last for a good 6 months . . .
Posted by delaney55 on June 26, 2009 at 1:31 pm
I can always put on more clothes and blankets to get warm but I can only strip down so far and not scare small children and animals. :0)
Posted by croneandbearit on June 26, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Hmmm…after my terrible scare in winter I’m not minding the hot weather we’re having – I almost like it and it has been quite hot here suddenly – like walking outside into a blast furnace. I dunno – something about the heat penetrating into my bones makes me feel better. I give up on makeup coz I sweat it all off anyway, and we do spend alot of time indoors in the ac. I was going to suggest a kiddie pool, but you’ve already hit that one. Does hubs have some type of canopy or umbrella over the tractor? That might help. See – I want the 10 acres even if I had to mow the 3. We’re just never satisfied. Hot as it is, I still want to ditch Ohio and move to somewhere like South Carolina. Hmmmm.
Posted by delaney55 on June 26, 2009 at 2:09 pm
I can understand you not wanting winter any time soon but I am totally hating this heat wave. We need something over the tractor cause a big hat doesn’t quite make it.
Posted by Lis Garrett on June 26, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I grew up in Georgia, but I’ve lived here (Ithaca, NY) for the past eight years. I have yet to get used to standing out at the bus stop with the kids in negative windchills during the winter. Most people here do not have central AC – we’re lucky we have a wall-mounted unit that cools our living room. Sunshine and 75 degrees – it doesn’t get much better than that . . . wherever that is. LOL!
Posted by delaney55 on June 26, 2009 at 2:08 pm
OK, rub it in why don’t ya? Though I could live with the negative windchills. I would love to be where it’s that cool for a high temp. Wisconsin is like that. We went up there when Hubby was truck driving and besides being gorgeous with the woods they said the highest temp in the summer was about 85. They have nasty winters too but dang, what a great summer.
Posted by Lis Garrett on June 26, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Oh, what I meant was 75 and sunny is my “idea” of perfect. I remember the first summer I was in Ithaca (and VERY pregnant), it was over 100 degrees for a week straight – with no indoor cooling except fans. We spent a lot of time wandering the mall and swimming. I don’t envy anyone who has to put up with extreme heat for very long. We joke that our summers last all of three weeks! Mid fall is the best time of year here. But I chuckle when I hear my friend from Texas say 60 degrees is ‘cold’. To us, that’s warm enough to wear shorts! 85 degrees to us is H-O-T!! I can’t imagine being 20 degrees above that. (wiping away the sweat). WHEW!
Posted by croneandbearit on June 28, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Hey sweetie – Tune in Tuesday as I’m doing your Home Staples on the blog and I’ll link back to you! Hugs!
Posted by Carla on June 29, 2009 at 9:07 pm
When I get in my car to come home from work, and drive the 20 minutes home, and my little Jetta can’t even get cool with the a/c going full blast, I know it’s hot. I think I’m an oddity, though. I don’t mind the heat near as much as I mind the cold. Guess it’s because I grew up in the heat. I’ll take a hot summer day over a cold winter day any time!
Posted by Sandy on July 6, 2009 at 10:42 am
No sympathy here…..we’ve just finished one of the coldest, wettest Junes on record for this area.