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I'm excited, this winter/spring has been way to cold and I look forward to 90+ temperatures. I'm hoping for a really hot sunny summer which can then carry into fall.
Not liking 100 degree temps w/humidity isn't being negative...it's being realistic. One is realistically limited in what they can do when temps soar past 90 degrees. Most people are *thrilled* when it's 80 degrees and sunny outside--they consider that a perfect day, esp. if there's low humidity. 90+ degrees? Most people stay inside during the hottest part of the day. That's just a fact.
I don't mind it so much on the weekends when I can sport shorts and no shoes...but during the work week? I feel suffocated/claustrophobic in work pants and shoes.
I like it personally, but it does make it difficult to walk the dog. Or at least to let the dog get the level of exercise that she really needs.
Swimming is great in the heat. Playing fetch with the sprinklers, some just enjoy chasing/playing with a sprinkler or hose. If nothing else walk her in the morning/evening.
I've also noticed that my dogs do not require as much exercise on really hot days, maybe they instinctively understand that they should relax when it's really hot?
DARN! and I have to be in Michigan (high 67) moving our stuff...keep the iced tea cold as we will be back in Zebulon by July 15....and I sold my winter jackets!!
Last year when the first 100 degree weekend hit, I nearly got heat stroke tending to my newly installed Zoysia sod.. it was installed on Friday afternoon, and we had crazy hot temps immediately after. My sod survived and so did I.. but I think this time around should be much easier. Plus now I live in a house with tons of shade - the backyard is always pretty comfortable (except for the mosquitoes).
I like to take my dog with me in the car and in the late spring - summer - late summer, unless I'm taking her someplace specific, it's not possible to run errands with her without leaving the car running, emerg. brake on, with the AC cranked up (and then manually locking the door from the outside). I've done this a few times, and I know it is wasteful on fuel, but it's the only way to manage this if she's with me in the car and I need to stop and run an errand. She really likes the car and I like having her with me. I can take her into Lowe's and a couple other places, but overall it's pretty limited, so she ends up staying home far more often in the summer.
She *loves* to go swimming, but I don't know where to take her here where the water is clean, with no ducks/geese (she's a retriever and goes nuts if she sees water fowl), etc, where it's safe, and where it's somewhat contained so she won't go wandering off. Before Schenk Forest was closed to dogs I used to take her there occasionally.
The 2 best times she ever had was swimming was in my friend's pool with my friend's then 10-yr old son, when I lived in CA, and again in CA when 15 golden retriever owners got their dogs together and the dogs all went romping/swimming at a huge state park. That was heaven.
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WEATHER heating up
