Monday morning

[lagilman]

Noon weather update, via the Weather Channel desktop icon -- it's 87 degrees here. "Feels like" 89 degrees.



It's still hot.

I know, you were all just dying to know that.

*wilts*

It's humid, too, to add insult to injury.

The felines are all sprawled half-asleep in various locations on the hardwood floors, even the younguns too warm to do any of their usual catch-me-if-you-can games, and Ozzy is kvetching like an old man forced to miss his canasta game for a prostate exam.


I. Hate. Summer.



That is all.

Comments

[gastonmonescu.livejournal.com]

I. Hate. Summer. Too. The seasons should run spring, fall, spring, fall, spring ... you get the idea.

[quarkwiz.livejournal.com]

[aol]Me too![/aol]

Yuck. Could just barely see the skyline this morning from our bit of Queens, and we're less than four miles directly east of the Empire State Building.

[greeneyedkzin.livejournal.com]

Yesterday I was planning to go to Donato's Open Studio, got outside and into the humidity, my linen suit wilted, and I got ice cream instead.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Oh, sympathies. I came out around 11:30 pm from a party Friday night, and I realized I needed gills to breathe.

Down here, Spring usually arrives on a Tuesday, at 8:30 am, and Summer follows on Friday... Can I request just a month of summer, and a month of winter, total?

A/C is a glorious invention.

[hoosier-red.livejournal.com]

Yuck -- heat and humidity is a killer. It was around 92 in Dallas yesterday with significant humidity, and it was like walking into God's hair dryer every time you went outside.

[karentoe.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of moving to Alaska.

[liuseth.livejournal.com]

Alaska is VERY strange in summer. SO dry that you have to be permanently attached to a water bottle, and the sun? don't get me started on that. It goes around the sky, not up and over. Is MOST disconcerting.

And they have about 8 months of winter. lol

Kada - who'se been to alaska in every season and autumn would have to be her favourite.

[lagilman]

I've been there in summer and winter, and found winter to be more pelasant, yeah. Although there's something to be said for the summer frenzies (when you get so much sunlight you forget to sleep). Lots of writing gets done...

(but then, there're the mosquitos. Huuuuge mosquitos, with sharp bitey things. So maybe not).

[liuseth.livejournal.com]

oh yeh, definitely forget to sleep.

I distinctly remember we were out shopping one day and just general out and about towness. I couldn't understand why i was so hungry when it was only 4pm. We'd only HAD lunch a few hours before.

.. it was actually closer to 9pm. I'd been judging the time by the sun. lol

Mozzies don't like me for some reason. Must taste yuck or something?

oh and i've still yet to see a moose. *Without fail* every time we come back home, Bruce's mom will ring us the next day or the following week and tell us of the moose that's in her front yard nibbling on the hedge.. no matter what time of the year we go, or how long we stay it's the same. and there's nary a one to be seen whenever we're there. It's the great moose conspiracy i tell ya!

[lagilman]

I got to see a moose in downtown Anchorage one February afternoon during Fur Rondy... and also a momma and her twin calves, while flying out to a friend's friend's place in the bush. Oh, and the one that claimed right of way while we were driving down to Seward...

clearly, I have good moose karma.

And mosquitos looooove me. I'm First Choice Prime B-pos, apparently.

[liuseth.livejournal.com]

Stealing all my meeses are ya? lol

Although we did have a wonderful otter experience on a tour of the Kenai Fjords. This little fella unconcernedly lazed on his back in the water and munched on a fish, within 35 ft of the tour boat. We stopped and watched for more than ten minutes & he did NOT give a rat's razoo!

Oh, have you tried reindeer sausage?

[lagilman]

Oh, have you tried reindeer sausage?


Caribou sausage, and salmon jerky and fresh river-caut salmon, and all sorts of other rustic Alaskan delights.

"You're eating Bambi!"
"No I'm not. I'm eating Bambi's bigger, meaner, uglier cousin. And he's tasty."

Salmon jerky, btw, will make every cat within a five mile radius follow you home. Quite entertaining.

[liuseth.livejournal.com]

MMmmm yum.

Yes, i was very glad there was no cats in the house after eating salmon jerky.

I must admit i've yet to try fireweed syrup though.

[merlinpole.livejournal.com]

The jokes in the Air Force were that the mosquito was the state bird of Alaska. I never got sent there so I only heard about it. And there was one sergeant who'd been at remote sites two or three times in Alaska, one of them an island? referred to as "King Salmon." He was adamant, "I ain't goin' back to Alaska! I'll desert first!"

[karentoe.livejournal.com]

I don't mind dry, and I don't mind winter. :)

Of course, it's too damn far away from all my relatives.

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

No AC? That is sucky.

[paleologa.livejournal.com]

There's AC in the rest of the apartment; roomie didn't want a window unit in her bedroom.

Granted, turning on the AC in the LR/DR area will cost plenty $$, but it *is* there to be used when necessary. So don't feel too bad for her.

[paleologa.livejournal.com]

Don't want to sound *too* heartless, btw -- I agree that outdoors is nasty.

[lagilman]

window-unit A/Cs make me ill -- sinuses hate it, as do eyes. So less a question of not wanting it as choosing the lesser of two weevils.

[liuseth.livejournal.com]

would they hate it if you put a humidifier in the same room? Take the edge off the dryness?

[lagilman]

Something to consider. Until recently I had central air with a humidifier attached to the main unit, and that was ideal.

[liuseth.livejournal.com]

We have the himidifier going pretty much all winter long here, and every night during summer. It's just SO dry. I'm used to a more mediteranean climate.
L.A. = blech. And i was dumb enough to go to AZ in the middly of july once. Never again. i was prune girl by the time i got back home and i was only there three days! I felt like whatsis name in Dune when he first gets out in the desert. lol

[lagilman]

*sigh* I'm off to AZ in July, myself. But I actually know how to deal with desert heat -- so long as I stay out of direct sunlight there (a headache trigger), I'm okay. It's the humidity combined with heat that gets me, which is amusing since I grew up in an area that was mostly, once, swampland...

[liuseth.livejournal.com]

it's heat in general that gets me, dry or humid. It's that whole whiter than thou skin, freckles and red hair jobbie that i got going on. (honest to god, i have flourescent white skin, you need sunglasses to deal with my pins when i wear shorts in summer!)

{sings} Rain, cold, snow these are a few of my favourite things. {/sings}

Where do i live? in a big stinking no weather concrete jungle in the middle of a desert.

Perhaps it gets ya because you grew up with it? Kinda like you get allergic to pollens you grew up with, same with heat.. maybe? ;)

[azang.livejournal.com]

Hi from Arizona.
I agree, the dry heat is easier to deal with.
Here's a cool down tip; freeze Capri Sun drink pouches (wild cherry is my favorite!) then when you want one, take it out and let it sit on the counter until it has softened up enough to smash. Smash up, cut off the top and eat straight from the pouch or spoon it out. Great slushie and cools you right down. (standing in a kiddie pool full of ice water helps too)

[paleologa.livejournal.com]

I certainly wouldn't mind, as I suffer from dry skin and sinus issues myself.

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

[karenetaylor.livejournal.com]

Sympathies.

I won't tell you what the weather is like here.

[eilisflynn.livejournal.com]

Here in Seattle, we're having the misty sixties. Occasional sprinkles, overcast, occasional sunbreak. No humidity.

But when the eighties finally get here, we'll be suffering -- because air-conditioning isn't common in these parts!