Dear So and So

[MomOnBike]

Bethany 1

Where was that? I need to avoid that area.

[Owlie]

Dear bike--
It's always something, isn't it? You're getting to be rather expensive, you know.

Dear guy at new (to me) shop--
You're awesome, and you didn't treat me like I'm an idiot when I popped in to look at bikes. If I were guaranteed to be in Cincinnati after I finish this damn MS, and if Trek actually fits me (jury is out), I would probably buy my graduation-present Madone from you.

[bmccasland]

Dear summer, where for art thou???

I had a site visit for my beach restoration project and it was freaking cold! Where is summer???

This is making my crazy father's constant request to come visit in Texas start to look good.

[HappyTexasMom]

Dear Back,

Why did you have to give out on me right when I'm about to move, and during one of the best bike commuting weeks of the year? It's not too hot and not too cold, and I can't ride my bike. And how I'm going to get everything packed and moved when I can barely hoist myself out of bed, I'll never know.

*whine*

[marni]

Dear summer, where for art thou???

I had a site visit for my beach restoration project and it was freaking cold! Where is summer???

This is making my crazy father's constant request to come visit in Texas start to look good.

Oh you don't want to be here now or any time soon. Here in houston, if we are lucky, the nighttime temps get down to the upper 70's, daytime temps are in the high 90's with feels like in the 105 range. There is no cloud cover which means that the temp is already steamy high at 9:00 Am. I don't think the wind has been under 15 and is usually up to the 20-25 mph range for the last month and we have only had an inch of rain since january. The lawns, fields and trees are all looking brown and heat stressed and we here in Katy are all supposed to be in a voluntary heavy conservation effort which means no water to the lawn more often than 2x week and only before 8 am or after 4 pm, odd number houses on odd days, even on even and AC no lower than 82, and please use table fans as much as possible. The latest suggestion from our fine home owners association and lawn gestapo was to bar b que extra food all this weekend and store it for left overs.

And because they can't report any possibility of anything more than the rare scattered showers for the next 7-10 days the weathermen are going into hyperbolic ecstasies reporting on tropical storm Arlene, the first name gulf storm of the hurricane season.

By my count this is week 7 of over 90 daytime temps.

I am ready for fall and we haven't even gotten far past midsummer.

marni

[Bethany1]

Bethany 1

Where was that? I need to avoid that area.

LOL. Just around the corner from my house. No worries.

[Bethany1]

Dear Missouri River,

You have blocked all accessible bridges and streets in/out of my area and I was really hoping to have my sister come down and pick me up for a trip back to our parent's house. Now her seven hour trip will turn into a 10 hour one IF she braves the back roads to get to my house.

Then it will be another two hours added to get out of Nebraska and head off east.

It's okay though. It's not like she needs me to go get some stuff, it would just be nice to spend time together.

[Bethany1]

Dear Cheverolet Company,

I wish your Silverados weren't so heavy duty as one did 3000 dollars damage to DH's small car yesterday.

On the other hand, I commend you on your durability efforts as there isn't any damage done to the truck.

Now if you could get your Silverados to get 40mpg like my small car, we could come to some agreement on the whole thing.

[jessmarimba]

Dear Missouri River,

You have blocked all accessible bridges and streets in/out of my area and I was really hoping to have my sister come down and pick me up for a trip back to our parent's house. Now her seven hour trip will turn into a 10 hour one IF she braves the back roads to get to my house.

Then it will be another two hours added to get out of Nebraska and head off east.

It's okay though. It's not like she needs me to go get some stuff, it would just be nice to spend time together.

My goodness, I was just in Omaha today. The river is insane. It looked like an interstate or a major highway was under water?? Thankfully I didn't have to deal with any of it for work but I did walk around near Riverfront and I could hardly believe it.


Dear airplanes:

Please stop making me sick. I can't do my job if I get migraines every time I fly.

[Biciclista]

Dear former Louisiana resident

Summer doesn't come until sometime in July.

Now you know why we wear wool all year round.

[azfiddle]

Bethany, sympathy for you and your DH on the car ...

Marni- Tucson has been in triple digits for sometime, and our morning lows have also been around 80. Monsoons finally arrived and we just got the first rain in 82 days last night, but that means the humidity is here too.

[OakLeaf]

Hey, you could be in Ohio, 90° for two days and 65° for two days, since May. At least if it would stay one temperature I could get acclimated.

[zoom-zoom]

Hey, you could be in Ohio, 90° for two days and 65° for two days, since May. At least if it would stay one temperature I could get acclimated.

I hear that up here in MI, too. Last year I did several long bike rides (metrics and longer) in the 90s...they were uncomfortable, but doable. Almost a month ago we had a day in the mid 90s with high humidity and I was ill after <20 miles. We have no acclimation to anything much above 75, this year. I'm kinda dreading a century through Death Valley in Oct. I don't deal well with heat under the best of circumstances. I'm kinda worried about doing heat and dry and sun without any acclimatization.

[bmccasland]

Dear former Louisiana resident

Summer doesn't come until sometime in July.

Now you know why we wear wool all year round.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Seems the TE shopping trip to REI fell through last winter.
In my southern latitudes former homes, you don't ever put away all your summer clothes, and apparently here, you keep some wool on hand year round. I just need help juggling my wardrobe. I don't have enough WARM clothes. But when it's warmer when I walk out the door at 6:30 am compared to the temperature at 11:00 am, my body gets confused.

[jessmarimba]

Dear new guy:
If you would shut up and work (and not watch tv on your computer) you wouldn't have to stay until 7 or 8 to get stuff done. The rest of us are doing four times as much work without staying late.

PS. Put your shoes on. Your feet reek.