Beach day

[Sue U]

Sunny and 88 F, decided to play hooky and take the girls down the shore. I love summer.

[Guinevere]

You and me both, my friend. Enjoy! Post a picture or two, too!!

(I'm only half-jealous)

[Lord Jim]

That sounds lovely...

It's mid 60's here and sunny, (which is unusually pleasant for this time of year in The City That Used To Know How...)

So shortly I'll be taking the lad and the pooches down to the beach for a little romp...(when you get decent weather around here in the summer time you have to take advantage of it; the standard is gray and mid fifties... )

[Gob]

Down below freezing here last night, hard frost this morning,...

[Joe Guy]

It's about 75 degrees here which would be nice if the humidity wasn't at 88%. The temperature has been fluctuating between 75 - 90 degrees for a couple of weeks and the humidity has been between 85 & 95%.

I don't ever recall weather being this uncomfortable and I suspect is has something to do with the MOTU causing global warming with contrails...

Designated Global Weirding monitor in Chester, Vermont

[Guinevere]

Speaking of beach days ---- 25 reasons why I'm only half-jealous ---


http://www.yankeemagazine.com/article/f ... each-towns

[Sue U]

Speaking of beach days ---- 25 reasons why I'm only half-jealous ---

Pfft. Every day is a beach day for you; where exactly do you live, again? (Does "sur la plage" ring a bell?)

Anyway, I'm content to live within an hour of the beach -- and ten minutes from downtown Philadelphia. Today we hit North Street beach in Ocean City, NJ; took along a friend of my daughter's, too:





Weather was beautiful, water temp was perfect (cool but not cold), waves were moderate at 2-4 ft. -- enough to be some fun but not enough to kill you. So glad I skipped work today!

[oldr_n_wsr]

Good for you Sue. Even though I live on LI, I really am not a beach person. I prefer a mountain lake. But it was nice yesterday and should hold this way for the next four days. I read somewhere that on july 20 (maybe 21 or 22) that we on LI have not had a day of over 90 degrees in a year. Go figure.

[Big RR]

I prefer colder weather, and, for me, nothing beats a day of skiing (preferably downhill, but cross country is OK as well), but a day at the beach is always nice.

[Guinevere]

Perfect! Glad you had a fabulous day!

BigRR, I love the seasons, and there is something to enjoy about colder weather (I'm not a super skiier), but I am first and foremost a summer girl. Ahhhhhhhh...

[TPFKA@W]

It is 73f and chucking down rain. Hubby and I are sitting here in the eye of a small hurricain like thing going on. Love it.

[Joe Guy]

I do a lot of uphill skiing in the winter. The most difficult part of the sport is dodging those idiots that are coming down the hill to start over again - and they always seem to be so angry.

Also, I never realized until I started uphill skiing how many disabled people are on the slopes - and I guess everywhere else but not so obvious. Those ski lifts are always full of people. I've never understood the challenge to riding uphill but then again I'm not handicapped.

[Gob]

Are you an uphill gardener too Joe?

[Joe Guy]

I had to look that one up.

I think they only do that in Canada...

[Lord Jim]

Now wait a minute Joe, isn't there one in Chester Vermont who was sweet on you?

[Joe Guy]

Yes, but he was a pervert and he thought I was Warren Beatty.

[BoSoxGal]

http://www.yankeemagazine.com/article/f ... each-towns

I grew up in the #9 best beach town in New England - it's no wonder, really, that no place else has ever been quite as precious to me.

Spent lots of time on Guin's beach as a kid, too - she's lucky to live there, to be sure!

Glad you had a great day at the beach, Sue U. I'm envious - mountains are pretty, but the shore really scores with me - it sucks being a plane ride away from one . . .

[oldr_n_wsr]

I prefer colder weather, and, for me, nothing beats a day of skiing (preferably downhill, but cross country is OK as well), but a day at the beach is always nice.

Me and cold weather get along just fine. I hate sweating which seems to happen as soon as the temperature hits 70+. And God invented engines for a reason (snowmobiles).

[Lord Jim]

Well, we're getting ready to do another beach run...

It's 72 and sunny out here at the moment, with a gentle off-shore breeze...

Tomorrow it's supposed to hit 75, and Saturday it may hit 80...

A very unusual weather pattern for 'Frisco at this time of the year; it feels almost like a normal summer anywhere else in the US...

But we don't get rain out here this time of the year anyway, so if I can get sunny and 75 rather than "suicidal grey" and 55 , I'll take it...

[oldr_n_wsr]

For late July it's been pretty nice. Not much humidity and tolerable temperatures around here. They keep saying thunderstorms, but either I sleep through them, or they go elsewhere. My car could use a wash so I don't think we have gotten many boomers. Sunny and nice today. Weekend is supposed to be similar.