with a little cooldown Monday, then right back up in the 100’s by next week late.
Tricities gets 109. I am only glad we are not in the Tricities.
We are VERY glad of our patio canopies. It renders broiling into a gentle bake.
Alas, our mitigating cloud cover will not materialize. 106 degrees on Sunday…
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So you have a convection lanai?
90°F predicted Thursday–hit 96°F. Today it’s 96°F again. 99°F predicted tomorrow. But WSWC is going on a winery tour, so we’ll be in a conditioned space for several hours. Then next weekend over 90°F again.
We get an annual average of 12 days over 90°F, 1 100°F or more. Given I’m retired on Social Security, it just makes no sense to get AC. So the windows will be open all night, and closed as soon as I get up. A fan has been on all afternoon. “Go soak your head!” Doin’ that too! Shower & shampoo. 😉 It’s good enough.
Time for a road trip. Enjoy the AC in the car. Hydrate!
A real inexpensive swamp cooler involves a lidded styrofoam cooler full of water with a bit of dryer hose for a vent in the lid and a small fan blowing into the cooler from another hole in the lid. AC for the price of a fan.
From now through the 4th or beyond, we’re officially getting mid-90’s for highs, upper-70’s for lows, and it is that low day and night only because we’ll also have 60% chance of rain each day. One day gets a 40% chance, with 10% and 20% two other days.
My new keyboard arrived and will be added today.
When I came home from errands Wednesday and sat in my back yard, I heard several kids in several yards, playing, making happy kid sounds, yelling, squealing, talking to each other as they played. Mostly elementary kids, it sounded like. Not sure if we’ve had that many new young families move in, or if these are kids visiting for the summer. Great to hear this normal, happy sound that some things in life are right and good and everyday, like they’re supposed to be, darn it. Great that the kids can be out and have fun in their yards. Heh, they don’t know how great they have it or how neat they are. It really brightened my day.
Been a rough week, I’m burning through a lot to pay off back debts/taxes. Big deal next week to see about the biggest of these and work out (I hope) something workable, livable for me. Still have major and minor home repairs to go.
Zero work on font production the past week and a half now, to get out from under things. But the font production is long-term like a novel writing project, and the results work something like that too. Lots of work for a long time with no payout, then a lump sum, then royalties and/or sales of the fonts, which relies on the fonts being a hit with people’s design needs and current tastes. Fonts, type, always has to carry an emotional message of some sort, and also has to be legible, readable. Making progress on it, but the frist fonts are not yet ready. One is, but needs “kerning” values entered and, to meet current needs for global language features and other typographic niceties, is only half done from what used to be the case. I get this and like it, since it means usage across far more world languages, and other usability, and thus a better, more useful, more attractive typeface. But whew, the additional work! The Book Roman weight is nearly done. The italics and the boldest roman and italics are still to do, then the interpolation of the in-between weights and hand-editing to fix those. Then submission and a review process, before they can begin to be sold. then a couple of months before the first payout, which has a minimum limit. So…all in all, still months before I get my first fonts out there and producing income for me. Therefore, the lesson is, produce one-off or two-off display faces as a break and the bigger families steadily along, to get things going, to set up some steady flow of income.
I am excited about that. I am really worried about the major matter to begin settling back taxes. But at least most other things, except repairs, are now done or in process. As long as I have a workable way out of the big amount, then I’ll be OK. But…worried, scared, and trying not to be. Appointment next week with an upcoming deadline and a large payment. So that should give me a first idea of what my future will look like for a long while.
But other than that, things are improving some. So…trying to get positive about it again. It just has me buffaloed.
It may materialize yet. I awoke to considerable (thunder)cloud cover.
I figured out why they really say “When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping” -the malls are air conditioned.
North of the line, we too have been having unseasonably hot weather. After a warm, dry winter the province has blown through most of its forest fire fighting budget already. A campfire ban going into the July 1 holiday is causing some pouting. But measuring temperature in celsius always makes it seems more manageable somehow. [I also strongly recommend metric bathroom scales for the same reason –its just a number, maybe a bigger or a smaller number than you want, but no cultural guilt attached]
My condo has a pool. I intend to retreat there later this afternoon. Get in touch with my inner manatee.
That sounds painful. I am another person totally not okay with heat. :/
Which is ironic, actually, because I love summer gardening…
They’re saying 115 on the Oregon-Washington coast. And forecasting 109 for us on Sunday. THis is going to be seriously rough—a lot of people up here don’t have AC, or have only one small window unit.
We are watching some of our trees and rhododendrons die from this extreme sudden heat. We thought of setting up the patio umbrella, and wrestled it and its marble base into position to protect some—a wonder Jane didn’t lose a finger in that operation. We are watching the pond and pool I have worked four weeks to get to perfect clarity cloud over in one afternoon of this high heat. I can only say thank goodness for a strong pump and waterfall to keep the fish aerated.
Water! Before the heat!
And during the heat, don’t be afraid to spray the leaves. They will absorb water directly, and what isn’t will increase the humidity. Put a sprinkler on. If fungus gets a start. treating that is better than dead plants.
p.s. I have two “Anah Kruschke” planted out down beside the road for ~15 years. They’ve gotten no water except for a few bucketfuls the first year, and some woodchip mulch the second. They’ve been through this before.
Wetted burlap makes a cooler/waterer for bushes. It works like tenting your citrus against the cold. The evaporation cools. You can also water your roof.
Tommie, when was the last time you saw a burlap “gunny sack”? Those were made from hemp and that got phased out decades ago, for obvious reasons, in favor of the woven plastic sacks made from petroleum, of course. Any time they can trade a high-tech manufactured product for a low-tech renewable one…
Remember when “tarps” were canvas instead of this blue, woven plastic.
Back in the day I was buying animal feed in burlap sacks, and saw them being phased out. Gunny sacks had a lot of traditional secondary uses: fishing, for one, nursery uses for another. So I started saving them, rolled up a stack of them and stuffed them into a galvanized steel “trash” can. It’s still in the garage, nice and shiny, with its 2-3 dozen gunny sacks. When was the last time you saw one of those for sale? Another replacement by lightweight, flimsy plastic that doesn’t last.
Given half a chance we’ve shown a propensity to toss the sustainable, renewable, durable, and reusable, for the fossil fuel derived disposable, and ignoring how distressing that should be.
Joann Fabric sells jute burlap by the yard. It is not terribly expensive. They also sell duck canvas and drill.
Dammit, why are we having drenching rains where I live?? I don’t care for humidity whether cool or hot, but honestly, this isn’t “summer weather” to me. It’s more like spring or fall. Downpours, wind, temps in the 50s-60s. Bleah. Give me 75 and sunny with an occasional breeze.
it rained all day yesterday for us, we were supposed to be outside demonstrating an amateur radio station’s operation. Cold, wet, and it was not fun……
Down here on the southern OR coast, we’re DRY. The river (Chetco) is at a 50 yr low, our first serious forest fire of the year is close to 3 weeks old (we don’t NORMALLY get dry enough to get serious fires until July) and people already have wells going dry when in most years people don’t get concerned until the end of August or so.
And south of us is worse! We’re just catching the northern edge of California’s drought, but in an area that can technically be classified as a rain forest several years out of a 10 year period, (our average rain is 80 or so inches, damp years are over 100!) its definitely having an affect.
Hotter than biscuits, eh? 😉
Oh lets hope for no more biscuits! ONE was PLENTY…. half a million acres, twelve years later, we can still see the scars!
Oh cj. I did not know. And we have help. Authority that cares. Some investigation. It hurts as usual. But there is help,,,
I have some help.
Means all the world that there is someone who cares … the bastard
Oh I made a big noise. Do you think them non sentiments. This English is not cool. Assailed
We are headed for 108 degrees. We are at 102 and I just got through spraying down all plants not in the shade. We have lost one tree for sure (hinoki cypress as tall as I am) but the others are ok. We are going to take turns cooling them down every hour on the hour.
I spent the last year trying to start a patch of creeping thyme in my front yard: good-smelling, drought tolerant, not easily crowded out by weeds once established… I soaked it almost daily, and after a year of weeding and watering, have only one remaining patch bigger than a foot square. OTOH, the tufty grass I pulled out was superseded by a different type of creeping grass which looks much nicer than the stiff brown clumps I removed. Maybe I can get a sedum started in the remaining square yard of dirt. The poinsettia I got for Christmas is surviving after I planted it out in front next to the fig.
Both ends of the house are running the window a/c units; luckily the laundry is in the separate utility room. It can roll around in the dryer long enough to shake out wrinkles, then be hung on the line without heating up the rest of the house.
Sedum has spread from our lawn into the graveled alleyway…it IS tough stuff.
We’re still having trouble. Jane has found every umbrella in the house and distributed them in the garden, but tonight, a storm with possible dry lightning which can cause wildfires is coming through, and 21 mph winds, so we will have to go bring in those umbrellas and collapse the big patio umbrella before that hits!
We had three inches plus of rain Saturday and Sunday. There are no complaints as April and May were uncommonly dry;we had a total of 1/3 inch in May! Proge finally got the hose and parts replacements to he could put the big pump into the pond. We have had warm days, but we still get times when if feels like spring!
@ Chondrite, take heart! Thyme takes time to establish, but once it’s in it will last. Your one little patch will continue to spread, If you let some go to seed it will also reseed itself. Many years ago I planted four little clumps. Two survived; they now cover at least half the yard! They even came through our awfulest winter ever with flying colors!