Wednesday 20 July 2016

Doofus

We've had a few days of above 25 degree Celsius weather. Welcomed as it is we were expecting something of a better summer this year.
Anywoos. I've filled a laundry carrier with a few inches of water for the hound, not for drinking mind, but for her to cool off, she has lots of drinking water in her bowl. No this is to replace her bath. A baby's bath I was using in lieu of a swimming pool.
Now she will get into this thing willingly enough. Two feet. Either two. Front two, back two. Two on one side or the other. All four, no. She does this thing of standing on the edge with all four feet like one of those cartoon Tom and Jerrys. It is the most hilarious thing to see her do.
And it's not as if some great tragedy is about to occur. All happens is her belly is cooled and a bit of water is put on her ears and neck. You see you cannot really get water on her belly and chest that won't flow off or even get on at all any other way.

Another not so fun aspect of the heat coupled with very wet soil is the uptick of flies. Not annoying flies but biting midges and mosquitoes. I'm eaten alive with the blasted things and trying to get relief with spray on anti inflammatories and raw Aloe's.   

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  1. I wish you could get a film of her - I can just imagine it and am smiling at the thought. I sympathize about the bugs. We have all sorts of biting/stinging insects and I sometimes think those little gnats can be as bad as anything!

    We had a storm blow through last Thursday and it knocked our power out until Monday. I guess I've gotten soft in my old age, but between the heat and the humidity, it was miserable both inside and out. I tried not to take note (thinking what I didn't know wouldn't hurt me), but one night I checked at 10:00 p.m. and the temp was still 81F with humidity at 88%. Whew! I'm glad to be sitting in AC again - especially since we're approaching triple digits now.

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    1. Summer storms are the worst for they can be incredibly destructive since the trees are in full leaf.
      I wonder what tools they used in the past that we've forgotten to lower the effects of a turgid summer. I know the taking to the bedroom and walking about in the alltogether but that only moves the problem. No they had tools. I remember the one with big blocks of ice, BIIIIIGGGGG blocks and they'd put it I don't know where. But somehow it created a flow of air within a house.
      I couldn't film it, I was on my own. And you couldn't put the camera on a tripod for you couldn't be sure of her approach to the basin.

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  2. They're so goofy! I too would have liked to see that. :)
    I'm so thankful that, even with all our heat, we don't have the mosquitos since it's generally dry. Whenever I visit somewhere with them, I get eaten alive. I think they enjoy the blood of fair-skins!
    25 degrees, that's about 77 F? That's a perfect summer temp! Enjoy it!

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    1. Chuckle. Yep it's just hilarious. And how she does it I've no clue.

      I didn't used too. This is relatively new. Yes I'd get bitten by horseflies. And it would become a bump, but not this.
      Yeppers, it's gone. I'm looking out upon a dark morning that might as well be January.

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  3. We always got one of those hard plastic kiddie pools for our dog who loved soaking in it as long as it wasn't too deep with water. As you might expect, people would get out of their cars and see my parents and my brother and I who are both over six feet tall and you could just see the confusion in their faces knowing we were a little old to have a kiddie pool. We always had to explain that it was for our dog and not ourselves.

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    1. (chuckle) They have their own quirks. My one was an infants bathing bath about maybe 30"x 20" x 20" deep while the new one is about 15" wide with handles so you could carry out clothes to a line.

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  4. By the way, currently it feels like 43 C outside though the actual temperature is around 35 C. As they say, you could squeeze water out of the air if you wanted too.

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    1. Yeah, no, that would flatten me totally. Is that because of the proximity of the river ?. But you aren't as low as the river, you are up on the heights above it. Still I suppose with those temps it's more a question of oven or frying pan. You'd need to rise quite bit higher to gain the relief of height.

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  5. In the summer, moisture is carried up from the Gulf of Mexico by wind currents which is what makes it so humid here. I went out to pick some stuff from the garden yesterday afternoon and I lasted about ten minutes before I went back inside. Yeah, we make the most of indoor and in-automobile air conditioning during times like this and keep our time outside limited to early mornings and late evenings.

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  6. I guess folks -- and dogs -- beat the heat in their own unique ways. Perhaps better than anyone reading, I can sympathize with Kelly, having grown up where she lives. Don't know that I could have made it from Thursday to Monday with good humor. Would have probably been looking for friends to take me in!

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