Spiky Bugger
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When we lived in Kentucky and southern Indiana, the summer weather was always oppressive. Not just the heat and humidity, but the stasis of it all. If the temp was 92° at 6am, it might be 95° at 2pm and 92° again at 11pm. Almost no change.
We don’t do it that way here. My late MIL said we had to dress like onions, several layers in the morning and then remove layers as the day, and the temp, progressed. And I can hear my own late mother, even as we left the house in a very warm summer afternoon with plans to return that evening: “Don’t forget to take a wrap!”
At 7:45 this morning, the thermometer in the shade of the patio roof said it was already 80°. In southern Indiana, that might suggest it would be 83°-84° at 2pm.
But here in Southern California, it means it will be 113° this afternoon.
Per suggestions from Southern California Edison, we are in the process of “super-cooling” (my word, not theirs) our house. A/C set to what my good nephew calls “hard nipple cold,” so we can survive the afternoon. ALL OF US need to charge things and, if electric, cook early and do laundry early so as not to blow up the grid.
We don’t do it that way here. My late MIL said we had to dress like onions, several layers in the morning and then remove layers as the day, and the temp, progressed. And I can hear my own late mother, even as we left the house in a very warm summer afternoon with plans to return that evening: “Don’t forget to take a wrap!”
At 7:45 this morning, the thermometer in the shade of the patio roof said it was already 80°. In southern Indiana, that might suggest it would be 83°-84° at 2pm.
But here in Southern California, it means it will be 113° this afternoon.
Per suggestions from Southern California Edison, we are in the process of “super-cooling” (my word, not theirs) our house. A/C set to what my good nephew calls “hard nipple cold,” so we can survive the afternoon. ALL OF US need to charge things and, if electric, cook early and do laundry early so as not to blow up the grid.
