Hot!!

[Dogmama]

It's 82 degrees at 5:00 AM. .

I hot flashed all night.

Please tell me that you lovely ladies would just smile, put on your high heels, pearls and go riding anyway? And, of course, cook a huge breakfast afterwards for your loving husband and adorable children.

I'm going riding anyway. I have no adorable children & I'm currently p*ssed at the old man, so I'll skip breakfast.

[sundial]

Oooh, I was on a tirade all day yesterday and had to leave the house to cycle more to burn off steam. Then when I got back from my epic ride, I discovered my estrogen patch was toast. No wonder I was such a bear. I truly understand your solo expedition.

[BarbaraAlys]

Remember you make a breeze when you ride, so it's not so bad.

Not as hot here yet, but we have had a 100+ day already this year. Going to be a hot summer so I'm going to have to just buck up and deal with it.

Barbara

[bmccasland]

my disposition is usually better after a bike ride. IF I can just get past the first couple of miles. I whine in my head about the heat, the wind, that I have other things to do.... but keep pedalling. There are days that it's REAL tempting to jump off the bike and jump into someone's backyard pool (I can see them from the levee - you have no backyard secrets when you live next to a levee).

[Brandi]

It has been so unusually hot here that there just has been no motivation to go for a bike ride. i am not used to riding in 90 + temps at 8:00 in the morning. I have my sister and my nieces here this weekend as well. We have gone to the beach everyday they have been here. I think today though we are going to go to the new childrens museum that just opened this weekend.

[Kano]

Yeah, I know what you're saying!

DH woke me at 6 this morning, with this insane idea that I should already be ready to ride. I was hot, sticky, and he was touching me, making me hotter, stickier.

I hate that hour of the day anyway, and I wasn't pleasant. He later said he was about to give up on the ride, but then I got up, got dressed, had a bite to eat, aired up the tires, and off we went!

Starving by the time we got to the coffee shop 25 miles later. Much better attitude too!

Karen in Boise

[mimitabby]

It has been so unusually hot here that there just has been no motivation to go for a bike ride. i am not used to riding in 90 + temps at 8:00 in the morning. I have my sister and my nieces here this weekend as well. We have gone to the beach everyday they have been here. I think today though we are going to go to the new childrens museum that just opened this weekend.

hot in Los Osos? THAT's scary.

[smilingcat]

It's not even August for the DogDayAfternoon.

Yesterday wayy too hot to bike. Today, still suffering from heat headache and no shape for riding. Finally got some breeze around 3 in the afternoon but too exhausted to do anything. so did few minor thing in the yard and talked to my neighbor about my garden. My neighbor gave me a little over a pint of strawberries. I'll be giving her some of my heirloom tomatos. Cherokee red, green zebra, stipe...

My house has no heating and no AC. I still refuse to get AC for my house.

smilingcat

[sundial]

There are days that it's REAL tempting to jump off the bike and jump into someone's backyard pool...

When I was out on a long ride, I passed umpteen fields that were irrigated. I was ready to wade in at one point.

My house has no heating and no AC. I still refuse to get AC for my house.

smilingcat

I don't know how you guys do it without AC. We went on vacation up north and like to have roasted without our AC. No one had it and the region was experiencing a heatwave. Ack!

[Dogmama]

My house has no heating and no AC. I still refuse to get AC for my house.

smilingcat

Do you have evap cooling? I have both. I run the evap before the monsoons, after that, it's worthless. But AC costs over $200/month so I make the evap last as long as possible.

People around here are hanging out in malls. 110+ for the past few days. They say, "But it's a dry heat" - to which I respond "So is hell." Anything over 100 degrees is miserable. Have to walk my dog early in the morning because the pavement will burn his feet later in the day. Why am I still here? Oh yeah, no snow.

[sundial]

They say, "But it's a dry heat" - to which I respond "So is hell."

LOL!