I can't seem to help but have a theme for the QT's, and the heat is a major issue nation-wide, apparently. Dang it's hot. I'm out of patience with my own whining about it, so here's how I propose to make the best of it. For your own list of whatever it is you'd like to visit about, join the lovely Jen Fulwiler at Conversion Diary! It's good exercise!
1) stay inside, and stay very still. Encourage your children to embrace Legos and American Girl paper dolls as high cultural experiences.
2) go outside, turn on the sprinkler, let it sprinkle your parched lawn, parched children, and parched dog.
3) do not open the door to your house between the hours of 7 am and 6:50 am the following day. You have a ten minute window to grab the previous days mail, get anything out of the car you need, let the dog out, and get the garbage can to the curb. You'll have to wait until tomorrow to bring it in, of course, but your neighbors won't mind, they're hiding inside, too.
4) convince anyone who cares that swimming in a chlorinated pool and rinsing off in the poolside shower is the equivalent of bathing your children. Any build up steam in the house - be it boiling water or showering - is somehow counter-intuitive. The children will go along with this.
5) stay at the public library for an hour or three. They have the most delicious air-conditioning, and midday, when you and your home schooled children have the place almost entirely to yourselves because most other children are in regular school, it's as if you've added a wing onto your home. Clear tables, books floor to ceiling, clear tables, a computer station, clear tables....the stuff magazine dreams are made of. And did I mention clear tables?
6)wonder if watching the wasp that is trapped between the window and the screen counts as nature study, because you'd be crazy to actually go out onto the surface of the sun for a walk.
7)pull your lazy self together and hit the beach - summer will be gone before we know it, and along about January, we'll wonder why we didn't go every weekend.
Happy Labor Day Weekend, all!
Pray hard!
Pray hard!
Thank you for the smile. It's a gray, damp day here. No need for air conditioning. However, I can relate. June and July are hell here with the invasion of the body snatchers (aka saber toothed, man-eating, green headed flies, ticks and mosquitoes.) When do things cool off there?
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your labor day weekend.
Your Friend,
Deborah
I believe in chlorinated cleaning children all summer long. I truly do!
ReplyDeleteI feel for you, I really do. We have had yet another mild summer so that smile that you think you see on my face is really a grimace because I am picturing what you have to deal with.
ReplyDeleteIt has been so mild here that my watermelons are still tiny and the pumpkins are just starting to bloom. At this rate, we might be having fresh pumpkin pie for New Years....Thanksgiving is out.
Deb, I hope you're well, and that the seas are receding, finally. Things don't so much "cool off" here as one day it's 90, the next you're putting Christmas lights in your citrus trees to keep them from freezing. It's a game of extremes. But guess who'll be outside in short sleeves with her coffee on game day?
ReplyDeleteGreen Girl, I'm thrilled to hear from you, and I hope you'll forgive my lack of comments on your wonderful space. Remedying that, pronto.
Gwennie, you're growing pumpkins? Do you think you're better than me, or what? Yikes, I think people have a huge misconception about Cal weather. Our Shasta relatives haven't worn shorts all summer.