Baby it's hot outside
Jul. 22nd, 2012 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiThe big thing happening right now is the heat. Well, and the drought. We haven't had rain for four weeks now, which is never a good thing and is especially bad when your area is entering its second week of 100+F daily high temperatures.
As I do not use air conditioning, this has been somewhat of a challenge. I find it relatively easy to keep comfortable when doing sedentary things (reading, writing, crocheting), but I have developed a severe disinclination to doing dishes. For some odd reason, standing around with my arms up to my elbows in hot water sounds unpleasant. I've taken to getting up an extra hour early in the morning so that I can get some stuff done. This kind of messes up my sleep schedule, so I am trying to compensate by taking a long nap when I get home from work in the afternoon. I don't think this is a long-term solution, but looking at the NWS website I see we have the high temps for at least another week. *sigh*
The heat has had the odd effect of making me feel better for not having planted as much summer-stuff in the garden as I had originally wanted: Keeping everything watered would have been very, very difficult. As it is I am trying to commit myself to saving the water from each and every clothes-washing load and using it to water the garden. As this requires carrying about 6 30# jugs of water down a flight of stairs and into the garden I'm not really happy about this. But what can you do?
Weirdest thing about the heat: I've been taking cool-water bathes in the evening to wash the sweat off and to cool down. When I get out of the tub and wander around the apartment the walls, when I touch them, are burning hot.
As I do not use air conditioning, this has been somewhat of a challenge. I find it relatively easy to keep comfortable when doing sedentary things (reading, writing, crocheting), but I have developed a severe disinclination to doing dishes. For some odd reason, standing around with my arms up to my elbows in hot water sounds unpleasant. I've taken to getting up an extra hour early in the morning so that I can get some stuff done. This kind of messes up my sleep schedule, so I am trying to compensate by taking a long nap when I get home from work in the afternoon. I don't think this is a long-term solution, but looking at the NWS website I see we have the high temps for at least another week. *sigh*
The heat has had the odd effect of making me feel better for not having planted as much summer-stuff in the garden as I had originally wanted: Keeping everything watered would have been very, very difficult. As it is I am trying to commit myself to saving the water from each and every clothes-washing load and using it to water the garden. As this requires carrying about 6 30# jugs of water down a flight of stairs and into the garden I'm not really happy about this. But what can you do?
Weirdest thing about the heat: I've been taking cool-water bathes in the evening to wash the sweat off and to cool down. When I get out of the tub and wander around the apartment the walls, when I touch them, are burning hot.
