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Tue Jul 22 2003

I HATE TRIPLE DIGIT TEMPERATURES!!!!!!!!!

I probably ought to be watching the 10 o'clock news and find out how much longer this heat will last, but I'm afraid I won't hear what I want to hear.

This afternoon when I went out to the mailbox, about 4:30pm, it felt like someone had hit me with a hot steamy towel. I've had to fill my patio fountain three times today. Evaporation. I think it holds about a gallon of water, or maybe more, but not much. A couple cats in the neighborhood are allowed to roam, and they like to take a little sip now and then from the fountain. But the heat takes more than the cats.

According to the paper it was supposed to hit 104 degrees today, and I don't even want to think about the humidity.

If I had the money, Sezrah would be expecting a visitor just any day now. As it is, I stay in the coolest room I can find, which right now is the kitchen/dining room with a fan blowing straight on me. For most of the day, it was the living room, but around 6:00pm I had to give in and turn on the swamp cooler. It's getting on to bedtime, but I think I'll be sleeping on the sofa in the living room. My bedroom is no way cool enough yet.

I went out a little while ago to check the water level in the fountain, and hoped that there might be at least a tiny little breeze. Yes, it's considerably cooler right now with the Delta Breeze finally kicking in.

I have to admit, though, that Sacramento isn't as bad as El Paso. We haven't had 110 degrees here that I remember. And it does cool down at night. Usually.

Come winter when I'm wearing long johns and two pairs of socks, I'll wish for some of this heat. What I'd *really* like is perpetual Spring. No, maybe not. I like Autumn too. But summer in Sacramento? You can have it.

Ok, that's my grumble today. More of the same tomorrow and probably for the next two weeks. Blah!! I'll try to think of something more interesting to write about tomorrow.

Oh, I did it. I listened to the weather report. Triple digits until Friday, then we go to a balmy 98. It is right now, at 10:55pm, 78 degrees, with humidity at 50%. But maybe I don't have to go to NZ for relief. Ft. Bragg is seeing mid-70s. Bye!!

11 Comments
  • From:
    CovertOps (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 22 2003
    Hi Chaya! Planting trees around the house will help keep the heat out. I prefer a whole box of Traffic Light ice lollies to keep me cool when it's hot and dry! LOL @ visiting Sez in Auckland! Maybe you should visit your grandaughter instead, after all, she's got that pool that you got her!
    Take care.
    Lots of love,
    E.L.
  • From:
    Becoming (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 22 2003
    Do I understand you to say that you have no air conditioner? Zip lock baggies filled with ice cubes were the only thing that could get me through the day when it got in the upper 90's and into the 100's. I wish you cool weather soon! It is hot here, but you are welcome to visit and use our "guest camper" anytime you like. It is at least shady on the porch and there is air conditioning inside. As you remind me, it is lovely here especially in the late spring, summer and fall. (The winter is the killer).
  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 22 2003
    oh my, and here am i all bundled up in scarf, ski jacket and duvets to chase the chill away
    you'd be welcome here but would you be able to endure an unwarmed house?? that's the thing, i always feel badly when guests come and stay so i'd probably plant heaters in your room to at least warm you while jessica and i brave the chill :)

    sez
  • From:
    Monstergue (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 22 2003
    ewwwww, that kind of heat is sooooo hard on people! It is finally cooling down here, thank goodness! Try to stay indoors and stay cool.

    Take Care,
    Bobbi

    P.S. The swamp coolers don't help a lot when the humidity goes up, do they?
  • From:
    Yetzirah (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 22 2003
    Kinda makes you want to go on some kind of rampage when it's that hot what what?
    I decided to mope.
    It didn't help.
    I suppose it's the one thing to be thankful for at work.... it's like a meat locker in there.
    On really bad days up in my old home town, I would put on my bathing suit and go get wet with the garden hose and then walk around in a wet bathing suit. Worked pretty good :-)
    My condolences...
    Y.
  • From:
    Ozone (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 22 2003
    I have been noticing that it has been cooler this year in the southeast than in the northeast, and the same pattern on the west coast. I do not like the heat any more, and humidity for me is the total pits. I am with you, I would like it to be perpetual autumn.

    I bet the birds might have had something to do with the water loss in your fountains. On hot days here, they constantly drink and bathe in my fountains.
  • From:
    MagicWhiskey (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 22 2003
    This entry has renewed my appreciation for our trusty centrail air conditioner. I shall hug it when I get home today.
  • From:
    Calichef (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jul 24 2003
    Isn't life in the Sacramento Valley wonderful in summer? NOT! And you live in the *cooler* part, where I live it doesnt' cool off at night much, and the *Delta Breeze* has to be blowing pretty hard to make it up here.
    ~Cali
  • From:
    Ozone (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jul 24 2003
    RYC: The symbol is the Japanese Konju Ai...meaning love. It is the Chinese character also but I do not know the Chinese sound.

    The midi music title is an arrangement of "I saw the Light" an old Gospel song. Go back and hear another arrangement that might be more familiar to you.
  • From:
    TraumaMama (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 25 2003
    One of my patients yesterday had just returned from Sacramento and said it was miserably hot.
    UGHH, that is just too darn hot.
  • From:
    FishCreekBride (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jul 27 2003
    I can't imagine enduring that kind of heat without air conditioning. Maybe you should soak in the pool to stay cool!! Don't forget the sun screen!!