102 yesterday, 100 today, 100 tomorrow, supposed to be close to 100 Friday and go over 100 Saturday.
No joke, the minute I get home from work I am DONE.
Unlike some people I actually work for a living and for my age I work pretty hard.
I am always busy doing something.
Once I hit the front door though,
I get my ass inside, kick off my damn steel toed boots and get something cold to drink.
I can already hear the jeers and name calling about being a pussy but fuck that shit.
Five weeks ago it was 55 degrees every damn day, raining cats and dogs and the wind was blowing.
Every. Day.
These kinds of heat waves literally kill people around here that don’t have A/C or a way to get to it.
About the only thing I do is go out after the sun goes down and make sure my garden is watered.
My tomato plants are loving this shit.
Since I didn’t get them in the ground until almost Mid June they are way behind most folks but I’m here to tell you they are making up for lost time in a big way.
It’s too damn hot to do anything in the garage so I have been coming home, taking a nap and trying to keep up with what’s going on and plotting my next moves.
I may or may not try to get something done Saturday before it gets too oppressive.
I have gone way over on my data usage on my phone and it won’t let me link to my computer to upload videos anymore.
So much for their “Unlimited Plan”…
Dirty cocksuckers.
It won’t be until after the 1st of the month before it resets either.
EVERYBODY over the age of 30 is a pussy after working in this kind of heat. Old folks got to be especially careful.
Not just those over 30. When I was kid living Oregon, there were many days I could not stay out and play. The heat sucks the energy put of you and you are playing with heat injuries if you try to push it.
I’ve had both heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Neither is fun, and former is life threatening.
Q, where from in Oregon? I am from Canby, Phil is from South on the coast.
Dunno about Q, but I’m outside Cottage Grove, and we’ve been sweating bullets here for several days and it looks like we have about 4 more of this stuff.
I don’t like heat…
Me either. After the heat stroke thing (I was an adult and in Navy boot camp when it happened) I have not taken heat well at all.
My father was stationed at Adair AFS when the SAGE system was still in operation in the early 60s. We lived in Albany. We left for Germany in 1966 having come from Germany just in time for John Glenn’s spaceshot.
I appreciate how you feel. Last summer was hell on earth for our household as our 19-year-old HVAC system quit working on Friday 1 Jul 21. Triple digits all weekend and for the next 5 weeks. One of the hottest summers I’ve seen in my 20 years in SW Idaho (normal summer about 2 weeks of triple digits). Paid off the last debt we owed on the house that morning so of course here comes another major expense.
Could not get anyone out until the 6th and a salesman out on the 7th to quote replacement systems. We were lucky the company we contacted had replacement HVAC systems available. Thank God we had a 17 ft travel trailer to retreat to with a working HVAC system until the new one was installed the next week.
Drank a lot of water that couple of weeks. Wife and I are both in our early 60s and it was very uncomfortable, but if it doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger.
a very long time ago, I was working with a concrete crew pouring basements in the summer time. so, yes. I know how tired you can get after 8 or more hours in 90 plus heat. basements sucks as there was no wind at all. unless you took a break and got out of the damn 10 foot deep hole. I was in my teens and after taking a cold shower and eating, I be asleep inside of 2 hours or less.
as for the garden, plants seem to catch up rather fast when the weather changes
growth wise. same thing after a dry spell and you get a bit of rain- growth spurt.
one trick I learned making tomato sauce was to cook it down half way and then toss it in the fridge over night, the water would rise to the top and could be removed before putting it back on the stove to finish before canning it.
spices and herbs I learned to dry out and store that way.
as you get older, you have to watch yourself so the heat doesn’t kill your ass.
remember, if you don’t have to piss, you not drinking enough WATER.
beer doesn’t count.
check out the ball blue book for tips on canning your garden for later.
I have not so fond memories of roofing in this kind of weather. We’d start around 5am as soon as it was light enough to see. We’d take a gallon jug of water apiece, and they were gone by noon. If you set a tool down, you needed a glove to pick it up again. We tried to work till 2pm, but often didn’t make it that far. That cold beer on the way home was heaven on earth.
The flip side was concrete work in a drizzling November rain. I once had to dish out the back corner of a footing that the backhoe hadn’t quite gotten down to grade with shovel and wheelbarrow. Some sort of grey-green goo that stunk to high heaven. “What is this muck?” “Oh, that’s where the old septic tank used to be.”
Does give you perspective. Ever after that, when people at our white collar, indoor, climate controlled jobs would moan and groan about how hard it was, my buddy and I would look at each other and just roll our eyes. He’d started out on a dairy farm in northern Idaho, and moved up to greenchain in a lumber mill from there. We’d just say “I tried real work once and didn’t like it much!”
Plus the heat the curing concrete creates. Normal El Nino or La Nina July here as well been a hundred daily over a week for days now.
We actually got some rain this a.m. first in I don’t know how many days but still gonna hit 100 today.
One college summer like this in Okc we had 37 straight days of 100 plus. Was working on construction sight downtown Okc.
Humidity has to be high there also. 100 with anything over 70 % is pure torture. Stay out of that shit.
Phoenix, AZ here and trust me when I say, that first beer after you get home tastes best in a cool (not cold) shower…
I don’t have to be out in the heat any more, and I don’t. Too old and fat. And, if my AC takes a dump, I just take the two 18K BTU window buzzboxes out of my RV and slap ’em in a northern-facing window! Crank ’em up!
Y’all wouldn’t BELIEVE how hot it got on a Minuteman site in the Summer, nor how cold in the Winter. Glad I was young then, I’m almost healed up now! ;P