Have I mentioned lately that it is hot here?
Well, it's hot.
Not like Saraha Desert hot (yes I realise it could be worse) but still quite uncomfortable. We are adapted to cool temperatures here. Wearing shorts with a t-shirt in 60 degree weather is perfectly acceptable. We don't normally put a jacket on until it drops down to 40 or 50 if it's raining. So this 98 approaching 100 degree weather here is about 40 degrees beyond our realm of comfort. That's a lot of heat! If you turn the oven up 40 degrees hotter than it's supposed to be, you will burn your cake. That's how we feel, we're burning up!
I miss my clouds. I want them to come back and shade my home and cool the air. I like clouds. You see this picture?
I just went outside and took the picture a moment ago specifically for this post. Not a single cloud in the sky. Oh sure it looks all pretty and blue, but really it is HOT. And the plants are thirsty. And everyone is irritable and lethargic. That's what a cloudless sky represents in summer time. When it's too hot to sleep and too hot to work and too hot to go outside. And everyone around you is hot and cranky, and they always think that they are suffering from the heat more than anyone else. Some of them were probably complaining 6 months ago about how they couldn't wait for summer because they were so tired of the cold and rain too! They were probably complaining about the cabin fever. Well, we've still got cabin fever, because it's too hot to go outside! I try not to complain about the winter months because you can always put on more clothes to get warm, but you can only undress so far, and then you still feel hot! I like the spring, and late fall... when it's cool and refreshing... ahhh... that will be nice...
We should do a Christmas in July play sometime. It's too late this year obviously, as July is almost over. But that would be fun, to pretend it is winter and snowy and Christmas-time right in the middle of the hottest part of summer. I hear that in Australia, December 25th does in fact come in the middle of summer. So it would be like having an Australian Christmas in July! hahahaha
I also heard somewhere that ... um... I just forgot his name... (hangs head in shame) the singer/composer who wrote the modern traditional Christmas song that starts out, "Chestnuts roasting in an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, Yuletide Carols being sung by a choir and folks dressed up like Eskimos..." was written in one of the hottest months of summer in New York, when he was desparately wishing for some cooler weather.
Little bit of food for thought there for ya. =)
Blessings to you.
-Sparkling