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[lagilman]

Welcome to August.

It's hot.

The air feels like the inside of a pressure cooker, even at 7:30 this morning.

It's going to get hotter.


I think I'm handling this remarkably well, actually. I wake up, drink a bottle of water, take aspirin, turn the fans up to high, and go back to bed go to work. I am not happy about any of this, but so far that unhappiness has not led to bloodshed, either mine or anyone who asks how I'm enjoying the weather.

If it doesn't break by Thursday, as predicted? All bets are off.


ETA: went outside to get lunch, and while it's bad, it's not quite 'orrible...yet. But this is in a neighborhood with relatively low-set buildings and mature shade trees. I feel utmost sympathy for those of you trapped in concrete cities...

Comments

[hilleviw.livejournal.com]

Remember the coffee granita recipe? It helps, it really does. And there are lots of variations. The basic formula is 4 cups of liquid, 2/3-1 cup of sugar, 2 tablespoons of booze.

For the liquid, nearly anything will do: squeeze the juice of 5 or 6 lemons & add water; liquify a pound of strawberries in the blender & add water; throw a bag of Trader Joe's frozen mango in the blender & add water; four peaches slightly past their prime in the blender & add water. Just: make the sugar sirop by adding the sugar to a cup of water in a saucepan, stir occasionally,bring to a boil. Let cool a little. Add to your other liquid. Freeze.

[lagilman]

I need a blender.

(a food processer, while lovely for cooking, isn't much help when you have a couple of overripe bananas and a pint of strawberries begging to be made into a smoothie)

[hilleviw.livejournal.com]

This is excellent blender weather. I got mine at Goodwill for $1, but nearly splurged and got a new one at CVS (of all places) for $11.

No blender needed for coffee granita, however: dissolve sugar in 4 cups of hot coffee, add two tablespoons kahlua/Tia Maria/other coffee-complementing booze. Put in a 9x13 pan. Put in freezer. Stir away from the edges periodically with a fork (the aim is to have it freeze grainy, not hard). Awaken happily the next day.

[girasole.livejournal.com]

You don't need a blender. I use my Cuisinart to make smoothies. This morning was blueberries, demerara sugar, raspberries, and buttermilk because I was out of yogurt, but it was still wondrous fine.

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

August in the Northeast has always been unbearable, but I'm not sure it's ever been this much like clockwork before. August 1? Bang, heatwave!

[booraven22.livejournal.com]

We're scheduled for a heat index of 112 today here in Chicago.

There is not enough anti-perspirant in the WORLD to stave this off!

::Tries to generate some cold air to waft at the North East::