I don't understand out fascination with heat. Heat like today and yesterday and tomorrow. Just before I started writing this I checked f/b and Sandy Stiel wrote...she loves this heat. Well that's just wrong.
Actually it's not heat that bothers me. It's sweating. I don't mind a good sweat. But today wasn't a good sweat. It was a superficial sweat, a faux sweat. The most strenuous thing I did today was make a phone call while I was sitting outside in the shade. I was sweating while I was doing it. If all I'm doing is talking on the phone I don't want to ooze anything.
Now there is a good sweat. You can work up a good sweat at the gym, going for a run, heavy petting (not in a dog way, in an amorous way), or working outside. It's something you take pride in. You know, sweat streaming down your face and that one little bead rolls down and sits on the end ouf your nose. You cross you eyes to watch it and you don't motion until that tiny dangling fruit of your labour finally cascades to the ground. It's something you're proud of. Something you brag to your friends about. A story to pass down to your grandchildern.
I've been watching my pets today (animal pets). Cats get it, dogs don't. The dog has been running around for a good part of the afterrnoon playing frisbee with her self and working up a lather. The cats? They know better than the dog when it's a dog day afternoon. They don't have the notion to motion.
You know we spend billions of dollars a year on antipersperants to make sure we don't sweat. So what are we doing going where only mad dogs and Englishmen would go. Out in the midday sun, lathered up with sun screen sitting partially nude while we exude.
I totally agree, Rick. I absolutely hate this weather and can't stand the thought of another day in it. Yet somehow by Feb. we are all thinking of how great it would be to pay thousands to just bask in it again. I will never complain again once I feel relief. But then I think I have said that before for other things?
Mary, people don't believe when I tell them but my favourite weather is minus 25 at 2 in the morning. You can smell the air. Brisk, bracing and envigorating. 'Course you don't want to stay out in it too long.
For many, many years I used to walk to and from work...but only in the winter and my most favourite walks were on the coldest of days. Invigorating indeed! Having said that, I love the heat too but not for walking.