Thursday, July 19, 2012

Trapped inside with the heat.......

We have swung around to another period of intense heat here on the desert, which has translated to intolerable conditions for us Midwestern flat lander's.  

This has more than trapped us inside for the day, and further into the evening...  We may see these days of 103 or so in the Midwest, but as the sun goes down the temperature falls immediately as well.....  But in contrast, out here we are seeing 106 and the thermometer doesn't fall much even though it gets dark.....

We headed out for a burger at about 8 PM tonight, which is without daylight saving time, so it was almost dark and it was sill well over 100 outside.  And we had reached the 100 degree mark at 10AM...  Forecast tomorrow is for 108...

Everyone is mostly home bound during these times that it is over 100, except the outside workers building on the new houses around us...  And we have no idea how they do it...

And to that discussion we have learned that the landscape crew will be here in the morning quite early..  I'm not sure how early but the boss told me he gets up at 3:30..  That is about 3 and a half hours from right now.....

Also, we are taking the car into the local Toyota dealer in the morning to have some color sanding done on the scratches from the accident yesterday..  This will tell us whether we will need to repaint the entire quarter panel or just some of the clear coat on the top.......  Fingers crossed that this will not be thousands of dollars.......

So with the early wake up call for the morning, I am forced to say good evening for now......

Retired Rod

5 comments:

  1. I'm afraid that heat is still going to be there when we have to get back in September. But I can always hope - at least for a little while longer.

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  2. We're in Kansas WISHING we were in the southwest. The deal is that you need to be out of the city with all it's concrete holding the heat in. We lived in the mountains outside Albuq for 25 years, and have property in a remote section of New Mexico. Even if it's around 100 during the day, it drops a good 30 degrees or so overnight. NEVER had to run the swamp cooler at night, just open all the windows.

    And BONUS!!! NO HUMIDITY!!! Having been in Phoenix metroplex one July, though, we were amazed how "unlike" the desert that place is -- they have humidity there, as well as not cooling down at night.

    We could always get our tee-shirts wet & sit in the shade, and get right to the verge of cold, no matter how hot it was...

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  3. I really like the header picture. Your roof is absolutely stunning! The colors are beautiful.

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  4. Yep, know all about that being trapped inside by the heat feeling alright......

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  5. Getting up at 3:30am to welcome the landscapers might just be the coolest part of the day.

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