Day 113
One good thing about moving to a new area of the country – you find out what you are made of.
And, apparently, I am made of sweat. Yes … apparently so.
It’s hot. Coming from the “High Plains Desert of CO” to the humid, tropic air of the Midwest this is quite the change. QUITE the change.
I’m sticky. I’m grumpy. I’m sweaty. I’m clammy. Four of the seven dwarfs of the Midwest version of Snow White. At least I’m not stinky (thank you Arrid Extra Dry!).
At the moment it is 84 degrees outside. It is nearly 11 pm and it’s 84 degrees outside. We are currently 30 degrees higher than what is predicted for our daytime high for one day later this week. This just doesn’t seem right.
It has cooled down though … I think we topped the mercury at 97 degrees … and now there is a slight swish-rustle in the trees from a faint breeze. Add the high temps and few clouds and bright sunshine and whatever it was in percentage of humidity … combine that with a little house that is like an oven and you get me … the Slobberpuss of Sweat.
Lovely visual, I’m sure.
Seriously. I am NOT used to this. Whew!
I’ve been watering the dogs down all day … Oscar, too. Pouring pitchers of water on them to cool them off and them throwing whatever remained over myself. It didn’t seem to help much. I even filled the bathtub with 2 inches of cool water and plopped each of the animals in it and watered them down that way … they looked at me with eyes that suggested I was off my rocker. Yeah, off my sweaty rocker. The only thing that did was make the majority of my floors wet and muddy. Great.
Today was too hot to paint … so, I thought I’d just “go through the dining room boxes” … I’ve been at it now for 10 hours and I’m STILL going through dining room boxes. I’m not talking about putting anything away, I’m just unpacking boxes and putting things on any empty surface so I can figure out where things go – eventually.
Too much stuff.
But … I’m too hot to do much about any of it at the moment. Maybe it’ll all have to wait for that day this week when it’s supposed to be 56 and rainy!
In any case – I’m still here. Hanging in there and though I haven’t quite melted I sure am a Slobberpuss of Sweat!