I KNOW that there are people out there who wait for the first warm days of the year, longing for heat, hoping for endless days of sunlight and beach sitting. I understand the longing for the light. I can appreciate wanting warm weather so that you can swim or sit by the shore.
However, the weather we had to day, and will have tomorrow, is my idea of heaven, especially when I need to work in the gardens! It's supposed to be 60 tomorrow; almost cool enough to make it reasonable to light a fire! It was in the fifties this evening as we watched the 6:00 news.
As I have gotten older, I've become less and less tolerant of the heat. I love my gardens, but I have learned to get out a O-dark-thirty to do my gardening, because once the sun rises in the sky, it's too hot for me to work. By mid July, if our Illinois weather is true to form, you won't see me outside for longer than it takes me to feed the birds and water my plants.
So...Bring it on! Give me a day's respite from the heat. I won't complain!
Comments (14)
Stop rubbing it in, you fiend, you! We have been in the 90s and expecting 100, tomorrow. Bleh! There is no such thing as arising early enough to do yard work when the low is 84. I hate this global warming (well, actually, I pretty much hate Kansas--the weather, you know?) Send snow!
Posted by Cop Car | June 10, 2006 12:53 AM
Posted on June 10, 2006 00:53
i have to say i love the sunshine. i do appreciate the heat problem for working in the garden though.
Posted by bod | June 10, 2006 1:42 AM
Posted on June 10, 2006 01:42
I'm like you, Buffy. There is no lovelier time to work in the garden then when a cool breeze is blowing and clouds (not rain clouds, just clouds) are shadowing the sun. When the sun is high in the sky on full broil I can't think, I can't talk, I even seem to slip into a kind of foggy reality. I just have to head to the house which stays surprisingly cool even on the hottest days and languish there until the cool of the evening. I've been following along with all your stories and my goodness you have been busy. But it all sounds like great fun!
Posted by Roberta S | June 10, 2006 2:37 AM
Posted on June 10, 2006 02:37
I don't think I've seen the sun since April - could you please remind me what it looks like? And while you're at it, please remind me what it is like to be warm?
Posted by bogie | June 10, 2006 6:51 AM
Posted on June 10, 2006 06:51
Cop Car...you and I will have to retire to Iceland. Or, perhaps we could get a vacation cabin at the South Pole. I don't mean to rub it in, but I don't even think we'll make it to 60 today. Chicago reported an inch and a half of rain overnight, and it's rained all morning.
Bod, I love the sunshine, too. But I love it best in Spring and Fall when it's cooler. I'm just not a heat maven.
Roberta, it's so kind of you to come to visit. I see you're a kindred spirit. We'll have to start a group for sensibly celebrating the outdoors. *G*
Bogie, you picked the ONE day when we don't have sunshine to ask me to describe it. You need a FIREPLACE! Talk to Dear Husband. He knows about those things. I hope warm weather appears on your doorstep SOON!
Posted by buffy | June 10, 2006 11:39 AM
Posted on June 10, 2006 11:39
We have a woodstove, but to get to the wood shed we have to swim a moat - not happening!
Posted by bogie | June 11, 2006 6:48 AM
Posted on June 11, 2006 06:48
All together for Bogie, now, "She swam the moat!"
Posted by Cop Car | June 11, 2006 9:17 AM
Posted on June 11, 2006 09:17
Bogie, have you thought about building an ARK???
Posted by buffy | June 11, 2006 2:04 PM
Posted on June 11, 2006 14:04
Talk about extremes over here. A couple of weeks ago our country was covered by heavy clouds and beaten by heavy rain and the ground was too sodden to plant anything or even to walk on the flower beds to weed (as the ground would have become too compacted). Now it is too hot and we are suffering from the heat. I have been able to get out into the garden only for about an hour each morning then it just gets too hot to work out there. Our soil is clay and going over our front garden with a hoe on Saturday was not easy and the entire surface was just baked. And I just do not like this heat. Then the heat is also making it difficult to sleep properly.
But then the British always complain about the weather, whatever it is doing.
Posted by Adele | June 12, 2006 3:40 AM
Posted on June 12, 2006 03:40
Adele--We Yanks have a strong resemblence to you Brits when it comes to complaining about the weather. Sorry that you are so dreadfully warm. Yecccht!
Posted by Cop Car | June 12, 2006 8:38 AM
Posted on June 12, 2006 08:38
Complaining, or even just discussing the weather is, of course, a national pasttime over here. I didn't think people on your side of the pond complained also. Clearly weather is an international obsession.
Posted by Adele | June 13, 2006 3:44 AM
Posted on June 13, 2006 03:44
Adele, people are never happy with whatever weather they currently have. If we've been in a drought for a year, and we finally get rain, they complain about the rain and the chance for flooding. If it's bright and sunny, they gripe about having to water the plants. It's more than a national pasttime...I think it must be human nature!
Posted by buffy | June 13, 2006 1:22 PM
Posted on June 13, 2006 13:22
Me too Buffy! I love the May weather. I can't take the hot and humid days any more.
Posted by Susan | June 14, 2006 8:42 PM
Posted on June 14, 2006 20:42
Susan, it seems there are more of us who can't tolerate the heat these days. Dear Husband thinks that we have been conditioned by living in air conditioning, and that it takes away our ability to deal with heat (and also hurts our immune system).
Posted by buffy | June 14, 2006 10:33 PM
Posted on June 14, 2006 22:33