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Building a chicken coop for my daughter, gonna give her our flock when it's done and we'll be out of the egg business. When we need eggs, we'll grab a dozen or two from her.

Started on the build today and didn't get far. Working right in the sun, I was good for a half hour or 45 minutes and then I had to go sit in the AC until the wooziness went away.

Frame and build the floor. Take a break.

Frame and erect one 4x8 end wall, take a break.

Frame and erect the other end wall, take a break.

Laid out and cut the materials for the front long wall with the intention of nailing it together and standing it up. Got as far as cutting the pieces and said "Eff dis, it's too stinkin' hot to be working outdoors at my age."

I was getting seriously woozy by then, it took half an hour under the AC with wet cloths on my neck and scalp before I felt like it was safe for me to drive home.

Supposed to get back to seasonal temperatures (60's) mid-week, maybe I'll go back and work on it some more then. Maybe not...




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Posts: 15635 | Location: Downeast Maine | Registered: March 10, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Sounds like us last summer. Mid June it hit 100+ and stayed there all summer. Hoping we don't have a repeat as I don't tolerate that kind of heat. Anything that needed done outside got done before 10AM.

45 here today. Hoping it warms up a little next week so I can get the garden in.


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And let me guess, up to this point it was cold as shit like February/March just didn’t want to go away?

It’s sort of happening around here as well, we went from it being cold like never ending March and now it’s almost as warm as late June/July, just totally skipped spring again Roll Eyes

Be very careful with this “wooziness“, it sounds like heat exhaustion to me, that can kill you.


 
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We went straight from winter to tornado season. At least I got a new roof from the last hail storm.





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And let me guess, up to this point it was cold as shit like February/March just didn’t want to go away?

It’s sort of happening around here as well, we went from it being cold like never ending March and now it’s almost as warm as late June/July, just totally skipped spring again Roll Eyes

Be very careful with this “wooziness“, it sounds like heat exhaustion to me, that can kill you.


Yeah, the switch pretty much just flipped from Winter to Damn, it's hot! Not supposed to last.

And yes indeedy on the heat exhaustion/heat stroke. Exactly what I was thinking and the reason I said Effit.




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Posts: 15635 | Location: Downeast Maine | Registered: March 10, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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It was 90 here three days ago. We were already past the worst of putting up a 21 foot pool, I had shoveled out a 5x8 trailer of sand and had already finished another 5X8 of base rock.

Our neighbor's son in law (about 58) was cleaning up gravel runoff from a 8" storm we had two days previously and was raking it out of the grass when he exclaimed loudly enough for the neighbors to hear "it's too hot for this!" and propped the rakes against the house. Done for the day.

If it doesn't have an attachment his interest is about zero. Me, the attachment is the shovel in my hand or it doesn't get done. I watched my Dad hand dig a three car parking pad with drive over one summer, helped haul on load of gravel (shoveled by hand into and out of the truck) and then he poured and screeded the pads one at a time to fit the budget. Three months over the summer.

I was 14 at the time, we all wonder if these things stick with kids. Dangit, they do. This is the third time I've had to remediate the drive blowing out - and it's likely gonna involve a skid steer to fix it sooner rather than later. There are limits, but working in 90 degree heat is a matter of 30 mins on the job, 15 off. It can be done.

I've hauled roll roofing into piles at Ft Irwin in August afternoons and funny, nobody stopped me. Or helped either. That was weird, 30 days on orders there, huge thunderstorm and water over the curbs driving in, 30 days of typical Death Valley heat, stormed leaving.

You know it's Ft Irwin when random coyotes stare at you thru the barracks door.
 
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55° and misting rain today. Much more my speed...

I'm VERY fond of hydraulics and diesel engines, but I do (sorta...) remember how to operate things with wooden handles.

I planted 2 25-ish foot rows of potatoes this morning using a shovel to dig the trenches and a gravel rake to fill them back in. Even loaded the stones I dug up by hand.

Into the bucket on the Cabota so I could lug them over and dump them in the ditch... Razz Big Grin




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Posts: 15635 | Location: Downeast Maine | Registered: March 10, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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You know it's Ft Irwin when random coyotes stare at you thru the barracks door.

I was there in August and (not so) fondly remember heating up MREs by laying them out on a rock for about 20 minutes.

It's a dry heat, though.


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It’s not even that hot here in Florida.
 
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105 degrees on my shaded patio yesterday at 4PM.

If it keeps up, I'm gonna start sweating.
 
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80 degrees at the Daytona Beach airport. I used to be stationed up in Brunswick. Beautiful area, loved it up there but I’m not man enough for the weather. Lol
 
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Just listen to your body. Too hot, wait for a cooler day! Get tired? Take a break or two! You can still do a lot of stuff depending on your physical abilities. Don't push it if you want to live longer!
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Somewhat related I like to watch the fuss at times over Great Lakes water levels. I grew up near Lake Superior.

There was the mention of ‘climate change’ when the levels were low, 12 or so years ago. Not long after they went to near record high levels. Right now I think levels are a little above average.

The lowest level recorded was back in the 1920’s, no mention of how a fickle Mother Nature was responsible. Take a look at the Grand Canyon & ask if 100 years even matters.


https://thumbwind.com/great-la...-levels/#question_20
 
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