Tiger Heat
The heat is a thing to contend with.
It's not just hot, it is THE heat.
This was my biggest worry in moving to Austin, dealing with the heat. Actually, X dealing with the heat. She's not doing that well, except with swimming at night, which we are often too lazy to get up and do. (I did not find a place with a pool, as I ....um, sorta promised. X hasn't held it against me, at least out loud. But there are plenty of pools close by.)
So here comes three days of 101, 104, 105 predicted temperatures. Yes, I know, I asked for this. For us, it's kind of like a blizzard. I think that's ok. We are easing into it.....ssslllllowwwllyy. Which for now, means spending 85% of the time in AC.
Oh yesterday, when it was probably a mere 95, we did sit outside for over an hour, in the shade, with a breeze, sucking on sno-cones. We found a place with juice sno-cones so I could have one too. Sno-cones seem as important as AC. I was glad to see X enjoying herself outside. Resolved: more sno-cones and swimming.
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening by Salvador Dalí, 1944.
8 comments:
But you get great tomatoes, right?
I, too, sometimes long for the humane SF Bay Area weather. And then I remember wearing fleece in the summer, not being able to wear shorts at night, and longing for a day with some solid sun.
Summer nights are kind of fun though. Juice snow cones sound great. We don't have those here. But we do have fireflies. We have some dead ones floating in jelly jars that filled up with rain water. Do you get summer thunderstorms like NY?
Are the pools open late? Will you save on heating oil?
xo, d.
Yeah, it's not like I long for SF weather, actually. Specially in our fog-bank somewhat-ironically-named Sunnyside neighborhood. But like I said, the heat is a thing. It requires strategies. We are learning, but we are starting from 55 degrees (summer night in Sunnyside).
Tomatoes good, yes....but we got those from the Sac Valley in SF...still local, right? :)
Winters, I imagine will require about the same amount of heat in both places, but we think the rates on gas and elec. are cheaper. Gasoline certainly is, fwiw.
Are you at all surprised that it's hot in Texas in the summer? Were you expecting something different?
Oh, Ken, you must not have read this sentence in my entry:
"Yes, I know, I asked for this."
or "It was my greatest fear."
Therefore the answers to your quuestions are no, no.
It is still a tiger. Great Dali painting, too. Therefore, a blog post.
Maybe it's kind of like if you go to the Antarctic. You know it's going to be cold. You have prepared for it both mentally and by wearing the proper garments. Still, when you get there, it takes your breath away because it is so constant and consuming.
I don't know. Just a guess.
I love that painting, too. Incredibly erotic, imho. Yes, heat and cold are things not easily anticipated by intellect alone. I'd rather be too cold than too hot. Still, I wouldn't mind being in Austin.
We used to get great tomatoes here in the South in the summer. I don't know what has happened but it's a lot harder to find them as sweet and juicy as they were 30 years ago.
One of my new ways to beat the heat: a snowcone with the juice of a lemon and a little salt sprinkled on top. Discovered in west Texas. If only the snowcone lady had been open the next day I would've ordered the Pickle Delight snowcone next. I was working up to it.
...And if you want to positively shiver in this 100 degree heat, immerse yourself in Barton Springs for about a quarter of an hour, then get out. You'll be cool!
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