We have been staying inside because that’s where the air conditioning is. It has been the heat wave from Hell with temperatures closing in at nearly 100 degrees (Farenheit) for weeks. And then, there’s the humidity, closing in at nearly 100% pretty much all summer. Whatever it is they are marketing as air out there, it isn’t. For those of us with asthma or any other breathing issues, it’s unhealthy and possibly, unsafe to be outside.
We had a long, drenching thunder-storm this afternoon. It should have cleared the air, but it didn’t. It did, however, give the plants a good watering, added a bit of desperately needed water to the aquifer, and refreshed the tinder-dry woods.
The dogs sleep on the coolest surface they can find. Today, they are both on the hard floor because it’s too darn hot to sleep on the upholstery. I’d join them, but I probably would need the jaws of life to get me back up again.
Sometimes, you need a song to say it right. This is definitely, unquestionably the right song for the day. Maybe for the month.
BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE! 
THE WINTER BLUES – SWO8 BLUES JAZZ AND A BLIZZARD 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
You are so right – it is hot and humid at this time of the year in Florida.
But, haven’t found any place better….yet!
Thanks for sharing.
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When it’s already hot and humid, thunderstorms don’t do a whole lot of good during the daytime. The sun’s still got time to come back out and make it even more miserable than it was before. Evening storms are better, because the cooler air will usually last through the night… but unless the storm was due to a cold front, it’s just gonna make the humidity even worse when the sun comes back out tomorrow.
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It was crashing thunder, lightning and torrents of rain for about 6 hours, until almost bedtime. It’s still hot as hell out there today. We are just in a particularly hot weather pattern … and its up and down the entire east coast. I’m grateful for some rain, finally. It has probably increased the humidity (is that possible? it was almost 100% before … can it be 150% now?), but the woods isn’t so dry and the grass greened up instantly. And the lightning didn’t hit the house for a change. That’s something.
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It’s unbearable here too and no break in sight. 90 degrees at 9:30 at night is crazy!! I;m with you- not budging from the a/c
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It rained all afternoon … then it got HOTTER. It’s going to be in the high 90s tomorrow … and it might break 100. We’ve hot super hot summers before, but not in a long time. And I was younger. I dealt with heat a lot better back then.
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Me too!!
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You described our temps and humidity numbers but we haven’t gotten any rain. We could sure use it. And, thank you for the ‘jaws of life’ chuckle because I really can understand it. 🙂
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You’re welcome 🙂 Just these past two days, we’ve been getting thunderstorms in the afternoon. Another one today. It won’t fill up the rivers and ponds, but it at least waters the flowers and makes brush fires less of a threat. It really has been very very dry this summer. Last year was also dry, but at least it wasn’t terribly hot and humid. This year, we got drought AND heat AND humidity. I suspect you’ll get the storms too. They’ve been moving up the coast, so it’s probably your turn in a day or two.
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That Ella Fitzgerald was right on the mark! It’s too darned hot! But I’d rather be hot than cold.
Leslie
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You and Garry are in agreement on that one. I prefer neither. I want continuous October 🙂
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Now there’s an idea I could entertain myself.
Leslie
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It’s even getting warm over here in the PNW, and that’s saying something. 🙂 It hit 90 yesterday.
We don’t have air conditioning.
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I don’t think I could cope without A/C. I think I’d have to just lie on the floor and gasp my last.
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We have fans and a lot of windows. Our long term plans are to grow more trees. 🙂
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I wish I could send you a few dozen of mine!
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I hear you. It’s been crazy hot. When I venture from my air conditioned place, it feels like hitting a wall at the front door. I’d rather it be winter than like this outside.
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Godless, I can’t agree with your last line. I hate that season which shall not be named here. Too many ugly memories from my working days working in that dreaded season.
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Yet, I’m with you. I can at least breathe in cold. This humid heat feels like I’m smothering. I favor a Caribbean climate. Warm, not hot. Tall umbrella drinks included.
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Loved the post, and you are correct, “It’s too darned hot!”
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It really is. I was up early today — and it was already steamy at 8 in the morning.
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Thanks Marilyn. Might I pick your brain about Word Press. I have the free site and while I have had it for a few years, a friend helped me set it up so I am not as familiar with it as I should be. For instance, I would love to begin adding images but don’t really know how. Is there an online course available for “newbies” such as me? Now that I am posting more often and getting feedback on my posts, I would like to keep the momentum going in addition to making my posts more interesting and appealing? Your comments would be most appreciated. Thanks
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WordPress has a ton of tutorials. That’s how I learned to do it and ultimately, there really isn’t any other way unless you have someone living next door that can come to help you in person. Anyway, we mostly learn by doing, so jump in and see how it goes.
And they keep changing it. If you keep photographs on your computer, start by clicking “add media” when you are on the dashboard and follow the links. I think it will become self-evident.
There’s also a “help” link on pretty much every screen in the editor in the upper right corner of your screen. Click on it. Follow the prompts.
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Okay. Thanks, I will check into those tutorials.
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The problem with the rain on the heat is the humidity according to Mr. Swiss. He is the local weather prophet and tells me already in the morning the day’s prospects of the weather. I do not have big problems, although 100° is a little over the limit.
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Usually, rain will help clear the air, but not unless the heat dissipates at the same time. Which it apparently is not going to do anytime soon. It’s like a steam bath out there, and it’s not even noon yet.
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I know the hot weather is uncomfortable even dangerous for many people. However, I’ll take this over what awaits us in a few months.
I love walking around in tank top, shorts and boat shoes.
Maybe I can work on my tan when we visit our old friends in Connecticut. Thinking of a few hours on their “yacht”.
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An hour in the sun means the burn ward, for me. You’ve got a lock on our combined melanin 🙂
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Ehhh, stop yer whining’ we;re hovering around 105 to 110 out here.., every day until summer is over. A day of 93 like a few days ago is a cold wave. Brrrrrr…
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Yes, but you don’t have the 100% humidity. It’s really like the rain forest out there. I can deal with heat, but when you get the steam bath thing, I really can’t breathe. And we old people start keeling over.
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100% humidity would effectively mean you are under water.., anything less means you can possibly breath some of the gook and extract a little oxygen as well.
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I always wondered how you can have 100% humidity without rain, but it happens and regularly at that. What it really means is that the air doesn’t feel like air. It’s like a all enfolding wet blanket. Florida is like that most of the year. Louisiana, too. Like a jungle. Very unpleasant for people, though apparently some creatures — bugs especially — thrive in it.
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“A Place In The Sun” (’51-Paramount). Montgomery Stevens, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Raymond Burr. Dir: George Stevens. (Based on Teddy Drier’s “An American Tragedy”).
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Followed by “A Bed in the Burn Ward,” starring me, 2016?
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