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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
I truly hate this time of year. Always have. Hot, dry, bugs, etc. etc. etc.

Looking at sunrise and sunset tables. By this time next week we start to really gain some momentum towards later sunrises and earlier sunsets. Thank the good Lord. I cannot wait to get this behind us. Argh!

Screw that. This is the best time of year!
Long days with the heat that just bakes into your bones. It doesn't get any better.

If only we could get a clear weekend over 90 ...

I love the long hot days, the kids play late into the evenings while adults sit outside. The lake after 6 or 7pm is my favorite place this time of year, it gets quiet and fairly still and the sunsets are amazing. In mid July I usually make a pilgrimage home and head down the shore, early morning sunrise runs and evening sunsets over the ocean, I look forward to it all year and will take this over the dark to work, dark getting home.

Summer is definitely my favorite time of year at my homestead. Mid 80s in the day, mid 50s at night.

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Originally posted by SapperSteel:

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Originally posted by 46and2:

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later sunrises and earlier sunsets

the worst part of the cool months.

Got that right. I LOVE the long days, loathe the short days of December/January.

Ditto here, in NY.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
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It's hot. Thank the lord for air conditioning!

Are you old enough to remember when we didn't have air conditioning? I remember the first cooling system my Dad put in the house. It was a big old evaporative unit that was hooked up to a water pipe. Blew air across the water tray and was supposed to make the house cooler. Good thing it was dry enough in the deep part of summer to absorb all that water.

Our summer is only about two weeks old and I've pretty much had it. We've had temps in the high 90s low 100s nearly every day. Couple that with the tourists and I'm pretty much done.

Typically we'll get a couple weeks worth of really hot in August and that's about it. Not so much this year though. It went from record setting cold and rainy/snowy to near record setting hot and dry overnight. Yuck. About the only upside is it killed off all the skeeters in record time. But, now the paper wasps and grasshoppers are going crazy.

I want to find a place where it is October year 'round.

ETA: About the only good thing about this time of year is the clothing (or lack thereof) on a certain segment of our population. Either I've turned into an old pervert or evolution is working overtime. The girls were never this pretty when I was young.

It is a two edged sword. If you live in a tourist beach town, such as Myrtle Beach SC, Perdido FL, etc. Summer is their peak times as far as the local economy is concerned but locals have to put up with a lot of grief.

Great places to live during the other times of the year.

CW

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Originally posted by 46and2:

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later sunrises and earlier sunsets

the worst part of the cool months.

More daylight!

I could do with less humidity. But as to hot summers - they mean mild winters that allow you to be outside all year around. I love being able to play golf and shoot outside all year.

Summers here bring out the Amazons in their brief battle attire.

Those Amazons patrol the grocery stores a lot.

I grew up in north Dakota,lived in
Pendleton Oregon for 5 years.

Lived in the San Francisco bay area for 10 years.

Lived in twin falls,southern Idaho for 10 years.

Now i have lived in the Willamette valley of western Oregon for 12 years.

The valley starts south of portland and is about 200 miles long by 70 wide.

The pacific is 40 minutes to the west.Mt hood,and world class ski resorts are an hour to the east.Green all year long.

This by far he nicest most beautiful area of the United States i have lived in.

Humidity is seldom very high.Winter weather seldom gets into the 30s.

Yes, it is true that most folks prefer this to winter. I am just not one of them. I enjoy the cold, short days. Stoking the woodstove. A good coat and hat are the attire that I like the most. I can do almost anything then I can do now just be more comfortable and enjoy it more.

I do like 50's and 60's versus the bitter cold. But anything over the 90's and above will do. A couple weeks is a good plenty of it for me. I know it is just part of the deal. As i said in the title. There are some that hate this time of year. But it is getting better.
Those of you that enjoy it. Do enjoy it.

One of our members just moved into a place with some acreage. I went this past week to help him christen his new range.

Late morning, the thermometer said 94, heat index with the humidity was 105.

Neither of us really wanted to be there for much more than a half hour or so.

His dog was the smart one. Stopped off for a cooling swim in the pond on the way back to the house.

This is what I would like instead of summer heat.

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With 5 months of snow ahead I don't rush summer at all. I just wish it would stop raining.

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Originally posted by jbcummings:

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Originally posted by chellim1:
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It's hot. Thank the lord for air conditioning!

Are you old enough to remember when we didn't have air conditioning?

Not exactly. But when I was a baby we didn't have air conditioning. Apparently, it was an ungodly hot summer. My mom would put me in a cold water bath to cool me down. By the following year, my parents had moved into a new home (1966) with their first air conditioning.

After I got married, my new bride and I spent our first year in a brick 4 family flat with full exposure to the afternoon sun on a brick exterior wall. We only had a room air conditioner in the bedroom. The place was like an oven. It was plenty incentive to save for a home of our own with central air conditioning.

I'll take the long days and hot temperatures, thank you.
Hot is uncomfortable, but cold is painful to me.

I like the light and absolutely hate the short days of winter where you go to and from work in the dark.

I lived the first 40 years of my life without air conditioning.

Try living with a bride that loves the heat! Hates ac, and still turns her heated seat on in the car!im sweating just thinking about it.

I have reached an age where every morning that I wake up, it is a free day, and I am thankful!!! There is no way that I am going to wish my life away for colder-warmer-dryer-wetter-etc. days. I just try to get the most out of every day, and hope for another one tomorrow.YMMV

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Originally posted by ugeesta:
I love this time of year. The most hated time is the dead of winter when I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark.

Exactly! I might not love the temperature on the hottest of days, but I'll take the heat in exchange for more daylight. Too little sunlight depresses the hell out of me.