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Post by bluemingidiot on Jun 7, 2022 21:05:43 GMT
One of our neighbors is getting a new roof today. I would estimate that it is about a 4,000 square foot home. They took off the old metal roof and are putting on the new.
We have a severe heat 'warning.' 'Warning means it is happening. While it is just 102 degrees right now, it feels like 108 degrees.
In Texas we have heat participants and heat watchers. I have been a heat participant but now I am mostly a heat watcher. What makes heat watching the most enjoyable is having been a heat participant.
Yesterday afternoon I was in Fredericksburg and passed by Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church. There was by far the largest funeral I have seen there. Besides the parking lots there were cars parked on the sides of streets for blocks in both directions. Must have been standing room only. There is something very inauspicious about having a funeral during the hottest time of the day on the hottest day of the year. But I guess being Texan means that it never gets too hot to do whatever one needs to do.
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Post by mogal on Jun 7, 2022 23:04:42 GMT
As part of a purchase, our mortgage company insisted we get a new roof on our house. It was dumb because the cost was amortized over the life of the loan, probably longer than the life of the roof. As it worked out, we only lived there 4 years so not such an issue. However, it was summer in MO and the crew would arrive just as it was light enough to work and quit at 9 or so rather than risk heat injury either from surfaces or from the air temps. I missed some sleep but napped after they left and we ended up with a good roof.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jun 9, 2022 20:38:11 GMT
Next Wednesday the high is predicted to be 99 degrees. That will be the first day below 100 degrees in over two weeks.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jun 10, 2022 23:54:50 GMT
At 6 pm today it was 103 degrees. My back facing the sun felt like your skin does when you are standing too near a fire.
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Post by dw on Jun 13, 2022 21:27:11 GMT
Says 104 right now...glad it cools off at night.
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Post by Woodpecker on Jun 13, 2022 22:34:59 GMT
Wow, that’s way too hot for this ole’ gal. It’s 82 here, but cooling down tonight to 62. I can deal with the heat during the day when it’s hot, but at night I can’t! I have an A/C in my bedroom, but don’t leave it on all night because the noise irritates me🙄I turn it on around 6:00pm, close the door and cool my bedroom off before bedtime. I have a window fan in another window, so after the A/C cools it down, I I use the fan instead. Works for me.
It’s always extra humid here, which makes hot seem worse. ☀️
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Post by countrymom22 on Jun 14, 2022 0:34:24 GMT
We got to a high of 88 today, but it was really humid. First day this year that the air felt like you couldn't move through it. I started the day in the garden and fed all the critters early the headed to town. Thankfully, the AC in the car was working!
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jun 14, 2022 9:47:42 GMT
I truly don't know how more mature women below 40 degrees of latitude survived before air conditioning. Probably one of the reasons men evolved into hunter/farmer/laborer/tradesmen roles is so they could stay away from the cave/tepee/house as much as possible. I think if today's power grids ever failed women would either drop like flies or become roaming bands of marauders. Air conditioning enabled New Yorkers to retire to Florida and people from the Midwest to retire to Arizona.
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Post by mogal on Jun 14, 2022 12:12:48 GMT
Bloomingidiot, I don't know where I read it or what, but I seem to remember that LBJ's memories of his mama trying to cook, preserve food, etc., over a wood stove in a cabin with a metal roof that transmitted more heat into the house was his impetus to encouraging REA in Texas. Oddly enough, layers of clothes would help protect said woman from radiant heat but even so, enough is enough! We have friends who cook with wood summer and winter. Fortunately, they have a "summer kitchen" on their front porch. They only fire up their stove in summer in the mornings so they can have a cooked breakfast with coffee, have sandwiches for lunch and dinner about 8 or 9 at night so the heat from the stove then is tolerable and dissipates overnight.
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Post by LauraD on Jun 14, 2022 14:51:52 GMT
First week in the 90's here. The LOW last night was 79. Summer is here...
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jun 14, 2022 16:04:25 GMT
mogal, In the south the kichens were detached. The place that we rented while our new house was being built had a detached kitchen about 20' from the main house that had been converted into an efficiency. The main reason for a detached kitchen was to keep the house cooler. But also if the kitchen caught on fire it was easier to save the house.
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Post by Melissa on Jun 14, 2022 17:30:01 GMT
Some pretty bad storms passed through Ohio last night. Lots of downed trees and power outages. We had a lot of rain and lightning but seemed to miss the worst of it.
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Post by countrymom22 on Jun 14, 2022 23:01:14 GMT
Unfortunately the storms bypassed us last night. We could have used the rain, but at least the power didn't go out.
Today's high was 88 again but the humidity was much lower. Can't wait for the weekend when our highs will be in the 70's.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jun 15, 2022 10:04:10 GMT
Next 7 days are supposed to be cooler.
Wednesday Partly sunny, with a high near 97. Breezy, with a south wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Thursday Sunny and hot, with a high near 100. South wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Friday Sunny and hot, with a high near 99. South southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming east southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Saturday Sunny and hot, with a high near 99. East southeast wind 5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Juneteenth Sunny and hot, with a high near 100. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Monday Sunny and hot, with a high near 100. Tuesday Sunny and hot, with a high near 99.
Yesterday there was so much African dust the air looked like wildfire smoke.
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Post by Woodpecker on Jun 18, 2022 13:36:11 GMT
Yesterday was a hot one, 92 and humid. When I woke up this morning it was 60 on the nose. It's clear and sunny, a perfect day to enjoy the outdoors. I have lots to do out there and inside.
Inside chores get done, but are side swiped when it's nice outdoors.
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Post by countrymom22 on Jun 24, 2022 0:17:53 GMT
Today was cool, cloudy and raining! So thankful for the rain! It's supposed to be in the upper 80's this weekend but not too humid. But I would still rather have the entire summer be about 73 degrees! Not much chance of that though.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jul 6, 2022 10:32:22 GMT
For the first half of the year we had less than five inches of raining. Ranchers are hurting bad.
I have seen the 50s' drought and the 20s' drought. The biggest difference is that in the 50s dry land without oil was worthless. With all the people moving to Texas, the land is valuable.
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Post by mogal on Jul 6, 2022 11:44:34 GMT
mogal, In the south the kichens were detached. The place that we rented while our new house was being built had a detached kitchen about 20' from the main house that had been converted into an efficiency. The main reason for a detached kitchen was to keep the house cooler. But also if the kitchen caught on fire it was easier to save the house. When we lived in central Arkansas, I did living history events at various venues. One was then known as the Arkansas Territorial Restoration featuring buildings that were erected in--guess what--Arkansas's territorial period. Anyway, there was a detached kitchen that was original to the site and fully refurbished. I was usually involved with textiles so didn't demonstrate in that phase. I was often there when school kids were brought in to make butter, bake cornbread and dip candles. What fun! I wouldn't trade that kitchen for mine but still enlightening to see what our foremothers did.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jul 6, 2022 12:00:57 GMT
Along with detached kitchens, before electricity, country churches in Texas, and probably other southern states would have wild grape arbor several feet away from the building, similar in size to the building. On hot Sundays, the services would be held under the arbor to better catch any breeze. I am old enough to remember such services. Being very visual and very attention deficit it really enabled me to relate to God as my Creator.
I have always been attracted to the Declaration of Independence for various reasons. Particularly the phrase, ""We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Urban people do not seem to use the term "Creator" when referencing God as often as rural people. I appreciate that the men who wrote this document came from rural backgrounds. They experienced God through an even more awesome Nature than what I did in my younger days. As more and more of the world becomes pavement, concrete, glass and screens, I fear people's interaction with Nature will be a virtual one.
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Post by Woodpecker on Jul 9, 2022 13:48:36 GMT
Your last sentence seems to be whats happening more and more in my area. Most all the new houses, not ones that were here, knocked down and replaced, but the new ones have a huge driveway in their front, what should be yards. No grass, just concrete. Most of our side roads are still dirt here, but many have been paved. The owners have to chip in the cost to pave the road. Theirs no parking on these roads, they aren't wide at all.
So I guess all the builders figure people would rather have a cement front yard, to park in, than grass. It looks downright ugly. Even though the people put plants on their porches etc. it just looks so very tacky to me. I love grass, green and nature.
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Post by Melissa on Jul 9, 2022 19:15:41 GMT
We did not have air conditioning in the church as a child. We did have paper fans in the back of the pews which were somewhat helpful. Moving hot air is better than still hot air!
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