Saturday, while oldr was grilling lobster, we went to the pool for the afternoon and then grilled burgers and corn for dinner. It was great. It's summer. Playing hooky and going down the shore tomorrow, I think. A day on the beach will be nice.
Maybe tomorrow (I think you're having the rainy day we are)? Regardless, GO -- a day at the beach, even in the rain, is better than a day anywhere else!!
I swam in the heat on Saturday, kayaked, read under my beach umbrella, and generally spent the day in my bathing suit (after I attended a funeral mass, in an un-air-conditioned church, in the AM). It was just about perfect -- who cares how hot it got!
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
dales wrote:Dry heat beats hot and muggy hands down each and every time.
I've lived in both and I'll take the desert heat of 90F over a Midwestern/Eastern 90F high humidity day every damned time!
Who wants their clothes sticking to them and bugs all over the godammed place?
If weather was the only reason to live in a place, that could be true. But there are many many many reasons more important than climate that govern where we live. Off the top of my head, these are the ones that come to mind for me (in somewhat ranked order, but not necessarily):
1. family
2. friends
3. licensing (I can only practice law in the states where I have a license, and getting a third license isn't at the top of my list of fun things to do for a summer)
4. access to the beach
5. access to culture
6. housing stock - type/availability/cost
7. educated populace
8. progressive views
9. political landscape
10. tradition/history (somewhat allied to #1)
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
1. family
2. friends
3. licensing (I can only practice law in the states where I have a license, and getting a third license isn't at the top of my list of fun things to do for a summer)
4. access to the beach
5. access to culture
6. housing stock - type/availability/cost
7. educated populace
8. progressive views
9. political landscape
10. tradition/history (somewhat allied to #1)
All in the SF Bay Area (for myself) with the exception of Nr. 3 and possibly Nr. 6.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
If it was't for the winters and the general lack of jobs I'd live in the Keewenaw Penninsula. Then again if it wasn't for those things it's beauty would have been spoiled long ago.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
Guinevere wrote:
I swam in the heat on Saturday, kayaked, read under my beach umbrella, and generally spent the day in my bathing suit (after I attended a funeral mass, in an un-air-conditioned church, in the AM). It was just about perfect -- who cares how hot it got!
We had our first light snows on Saturday!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
dales wrote:At least in the West when it is 100F......it's a dry heat.
I'm sorry, but I've heard that so many times and it's just bullshit. When I was in Las Vegas a couple of years ago visiting a friend, and in Phoenix a couple of decades previous, and you can't get much drier than either of those, more than a few minutes in the afternoon sun and I felt like someone was microwaving my head.
I'll take 110 and dry over 85 and humid every time! I need to move to Texas...
I guess it must be what you're used to. Last week we had temps in the 90s with a humidex in the low 110s, and while it was uncomfortable I never felt like I could pass out while I was walking around, like I have felt sometimes in drier climates with higher temperatures.
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Jarlaxle wrote:I'll take 110 and dry over 85 and humid every time! I need to move to Texas...
I don't know that I'd go that far, but 90 and dry definitely beats 90 and humid for comfort by a wide margin. As for Texas...hell, you've already got the guns, you've already got the attitude, the only thing you'll need to work on is the drawl.
How's your tolerance for country music?
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