Any place it isn’t raining? How’s your summer going?
Update [2006-7-22 18:38:35 by BooMan]: I hate to be a nag. But I am going to implore you to visit Kid Oakland’s diary and contribute to the Booman Tribune Electoral Politics Project. The current portion is actually the easiest. Try to identify some progressive politicians (not incumbents) that you think deserve our support. They can be aspiring Senators and Congresspeople, or they can be dogcatchers and sheriffs. Let us know about your local candidates, and what issues they support.
Thanks.
Chris and I talked about this on Tuesday. It’s interesting to see what he finally came up with.
More meta? Sigh…I think there is too much meta talk to begin with. Oh well, some people like it. I think it’s a bunch of navel-gazing…speaking about it once in a while is okay.
It rained here in NY earlier today. Rained really hard about 4 times yesterday or so. Trying to regain some energy for these last 4 weeks on the job.
Saturdays are good meta days. Plus, we all need a break from hostilities.
I’m just not a summer person. I’ve been working outdoors nearly all my life and seeing what Mama Nature does to living things at the height of the season is gruesome. And there’s a limit to how many clothes a person can remove when it gets hot like it’s been here the last couple days.
I also can’t shake the propaganda I was fed as a shy and pimply youth: that summer is the time for running around blonde and tan in a skimpy bathing suit, all vacation all the time, falling in love on the ferris wheel, etc. and if you can’t you’re a lo-o-o-oser.
I’m a Fall type. Halloween, leaves crunching beneath my feet. Baking cookies and decorating goodies. Coming up with new creations – be it food or art.
Sitting on the couch and flaking out to a good flick. Watching the rain hit the yard. Running out to roll up the windows on the cars in your barefeet.
If Fall had a scent… it be the combined fragrance of freshly showered kidlets as they stand in the kitchen with flour and cinnamon clouds and pumpkin “guts” and scorched Jack-O-Lanterns.
It’s hot here.. hot and muggy and I think we’re in for some thunder.
Definitely a fall type here too…I love those crisp mornings where you need to pull on a cozy sweatshirt when you go for a walk.
I feel like I’m living in a rainforest this summer…
Mid- to late fall…watching the leaves fall (and knowing that I don’t have to rake them up — maintenance handles that!), digging out the pullover sweaters, having my hot tea/hot chocolate in the evenings, working on my latest crochet project while watching TV (it’s too hot to even think about yarn right now), and best of all…HOCKEY SEASON!!! 🙂
I think I have died and gone to hell. It’s blazing hot here. Ugh.
Summer is ok, when it isn’t so bloody hot. I like the longer days and an end to the winter rains.
have written the exact same comment. It’s 107 today. blech
I never appreciate where I live–on the far northern coast of CA– more than when the heat hits elsewhere in the summer. I miss winter but not the brain=frying heat of globally heated Pittsburgh summers. The highest temperature ever recorded herabouts was 84. The past few days have been gorgeous–the “marine layer” (fog) giving way to sunny afternoons.
But we’re not untouched by the heat and havoc elsewhere. Our electricity goes off periodically, as the grid sags from air conditioning the triple digit Central Valley, and we’re having all kinds of problems with our DSL, which may or may not be related to power demands elsewhere. But it does mean my access to the web is unpredictable.
You’re lucky. Most of our family in California, all rather near the coast are frying in triple digit temps.
Well, it didn’t rain here. I just got back from swimming in the ocean for three hours. And it’s a lot colder in the Pacific than in the Atlantic. But it was that hot here, and the water felt great. Now it’s time to….zzzzz…..
I’m glad you are nagging on Kid O’s project. It is worth it.
omg, you mean there is a place were it is raining?????
We have a heat wave in Switzerland and it starts looking like southern Italy and for the moment no rain in view.