What do the weather people say? Hazy, Hot, and Humid? HHH?
Yep. We’ve got it.
And like an idiot I mowed some of our massive front lawn yesterday. Not all of it, I’m not totally insane, but a good three quarters of it. The irony is that I declined an invitation from Don to attend a street festival where a lot of his friends were going to be playing music. I don’t do well in humidity – my sinuses and allergies go haywire and I usually end up feeling sick – so the thought of standing around in 95 degree temps, looking at a lot of people wearing tie-dyed shirts and patchouli oil, was not at all attractive. (I’ve never, even in my youth when it came into being, liked the tie-dyed look. Or the smell of patchouli oil.)
Then, because I wanted to do something, I ended up mowing. In that same HHH weather.
And when Don came home, he wasn’t faring too well, either. Too much heat, too much sun, too much humidity. We spent the rest of the day praising our air conditioner.
Even with all of that, that guy brought me a present – some pretty earrings that I love. xo
Some photos from the gardens:
Best time in the garden: mid to late July.
What’s the weather like in your neck of the woods?
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Happy Monday.
Your garden looks so green and lovely. I hope you feel well enough today to get out and enjoy it. We finally had rain last week which dampened the haze from the forest fires and brought down the temperatures. A perfect morning here – just in time for Monday and back to work!
Isn’t that always the way? But I’m so glad you got some rain and it helped with all that haze, Barbara.
Pictures of your dollhouse? (Just a gentle reminder, my friend!)
HHH here as well. Thank goodness for AC. I do like tie-dyed tee shirts but have always hated the patchouli scent. Your flowers are so very pretty. We did end up getting a few yellow and a few orange day lilies — the deer didn’t get them all…but the other day I watched a deer try to take a bite out of our red bud tree — I had to stamp my foot and clap my hands to get it to finally run off. Oh! almost forgot – Steve (or son or grandson of Steve) finally made an appearance. How is Henri/Henry?
Yay for Steve! So glad that you saw him! I’m not sure which groundhog I’ve been seeing lately. It’s full grown, but it looks different from Henry. A mystery. Henry is probably still around, but I haven’t seen him.
We had a beautiful young deer standing on the driveway the other day. When we went out on the porch, he just looked at us and continued licking something, which Don figured out was leftover salt from the winter. Gosh, he was gorgeous.
Sigh, should I just repeat that I’d like some rain? Hot and humid here too, but not quite as hot and humid as where you are. Wear the earrings and feel well loved and prettier than you already are!
Right now I feel sweaty and gray-haired and just plain tired.
So Hot and Humid here I can’t be out more then a few minutes. I need to take some pics of the flowers in my shared yard. My neighbor did a great job with planting this year.
hugs,
Linda
It’s miserable out there, Linda!
Well, you asked. HHH in spades pretty much from April through October. This time of year the normal high is 90 and the low 80 with humidity that makes the heat index between 104 and 94. And this area is prime real estate for allergies and sinus problems of all varieties.
Your garden is lovelier every week. I’ m not much of a gardener to begin with so with the climate here I confine myself to pots.
Never liked tie-dye, even in my hippie days, patchouli oil ditto.
Enjoy your week; looks like the heat will ease off in a couple of days.
I’m uttering a little prayer that it goes away soon, Margaret!
We’ve got the hot here and a haze from forest fires, but thank goodness we rarely have humidity to speak of. I’ve been harvesting a quart or two of green beans every other day. It’s the only veggie I planted this year and our favorite in the winter. There is nothing like the taste of fresh beans in the middle of winter. Our daughter in MD was telling us yesterday how miserable it is right now, She didn’t even go for her normal 3 mile walk because it was so hot out. I do much prefer our mountain summers over the Midwest ones of my childhood.
Blessings,
Betsy
The mountains sound good to me right about now, Betsy. We’ve had a pretty good summer so far, this is our first real wave of humidity. But it seems like I’m drenched much of the time I’m outside! Those beans sound awfully tasty!
Very little humidity here thank goodness but the temps have been over 100. Anything outside has to be done by about 10am, after that you will find me in front of my air conditioner too!
Thank goodness we have air conditioning! Over 100 – humid or not – is too hot!
Good time for a vacation in Wisconsin I guess! It’s been quite pleasant here compared to the rest of the country. High 70’s to mid 80’s…and just enough rain to keep everything green. It was supposed to get into the 90’s over the weekend, but never made it…amd I am not complaining. We did have a few wind storms…but generally not too bad. I’m not a patchouli person either…and combined with heat, it makes me ill. Your garden is beautiful! Stay cool my friend! ;)
Patchouli in the heat is not a pretty picture, Donnamae. Your weather sounds lovely! I’m not sure when ours is going to break, but it can’t come soon enough.
My neck of the woods is very near to your neck of the woods, this time of year. HHH as well! I just put out a big jug of sun tea, sooo, it’s bound to be cooling off soon, to the point that iced tea doesn’t sound as good as it does today.
I just looked at the weather forecast – looks like Wednesday will be cooler…can’t wait!
It’s hot and humid in Pennsylvania too. Definitely not my kind of weather. I find the older I get the less I can tolerate extreme temperatures. Hot or cold!
I understand!
Truth be told, I’ve never liked high temps and humidity. I hate it even when I was a kid!
One of my favorite shirts ever was a generic man’s white tee, tie-dyed in shades of purple, pink, blue and white – definitely my colors – purchased at the Canal Days festival in Spencerport, New York in the mid 80s. For about $5, I think. The tie-dyed design had nothing to do with its comfort of course, but no doubt about it, that sucker was a “wonder shirt.” Looked great with jeans. Even mustard stains [!!!] would release easily. If it got rained on, it was dry again in 10 min. And it emerged softer each time it was washed. I admit it, I mourned having to consign it to the rag bag. But I agree 100% on the patchouli – never been a fan. And patchouli in the heat, I think, would make me a tad nauseous. Weather here is sunny, humid and mid-80s. So it feels like the mid-90s. Yuck. Staying in today, with AC on low, and a fan in every room. Going to watch “The Descendants” with George Clooney. You have a low-key, coolish day too…
We really liked The Descendants. I hope you do, too.
It’s 92 here right now with humidity so thick you could cut it with a knife!
Had some heat and humidity on Fri & Sat, but yesterday and today back into the upper 70’s and low 80’s. Supposed to be like that again all week. We have been lucky!!
Enjoy the AC. My feeling is that we wouldn’t think of not heating the house in the winter, so why consider no AC in the heat of summer?
Oh, and when I was in college (late 60’s) I wore patchouli all of the time. I remember coming home for the summer and my mom asked me why I always smelled like Pine-Sol!!!! Lovely. I think that is when I put it away. :-)
Pine-Sol – that makes me laugh! That would end all use of Patchouli Oil, wouldn’t it?
beautiful pictures of your flowers !!
How is Caroline adjusting to her new location?
She likes it. Although, we all tend to be in here a lot, so the excitement may soon wear thin.
Hmmm.. you just taught me something. My allergies in all this humid heavy air have been going crazy!.. and I didn’t understand why!… Did not know this kind of weather can make them worse, but I was saying to my husband.. jeez, since the heavy hot air came in my allergies are making me miserable.
My thought is that it’s due to heavy pollen, for one, but also molds and mildew which seem to thrive in the humidity!
It’s a little after 11 am and the temperature is 92 and rising with 41% humidity. That’s a lot here in The Land of Dry Heat! Anyone east of the Rockies has my sympathy.
That is a lot for where you live!
It is HHH here in Central PA so that means I’m stuck inside with the AC on..I can’t believe you went out in this heat to mow..it’s a wonder that Don didn’t come home and find you passed out in the yard..lol…Well at least your flowers still seam to be doing good…Actually..I made and sold tie-dye t-shirts back in my Hippie days….I never liked the smell of patchouli either..sandalwood is another one I never cared for…I did like to burn incense though…Those were some crazy days back then…
No, I didn’t like sandalwood either. Or incense. Well, I should correct that, some incense I like, but not the kind that I used to smell in ‘head’ shops!
You’ve created a beautiful garden!
My husband was also out mowing the lawn this weekend in what I consider extreme temps. We are total opposites…he likes hot weather; I like cold weather. I could so easily live in Carmel/Monterey or Santa Cruz/San Francisco in California but not if I’m married to him!
I can’t take the combination of heat with humidity AT ALL. Lifelong asthmatic. Over 20 years ago, we had to live on the Gulf Coast for three years as part of my husband’s career climb and I was constantly sick; my lungs and airways were a mess, leaving me vulnerable to chronic bronchitis and the common cold which never ended. I was told by specialists that it was the worst place I could be living as I was terribly allergic to the mold spores in the humid air…something to do with not only that, but also a change in ozone with rising temps I never fully understood.
We don’t usually have really-high humidity where I live in Southern California but, at the moment, we have a tropical storm coming up from the south which has been making us so sultry and we’re intermittently overcast, 93 degrees [f] under cloud cover as I write this; was 80 degrees at 5am before a hint of sun. I’m not even ‘way inland, either; this is bizarre weather for us! I’m having to stay indoors under filtered air conditioning and I am grateful every day of my life that we have the A/C because many people here do not have it, and NEED to have it. I live in an old, old town…more retirees than not (but we are no fancy resort/retirement community, not even close…it’s mostly because the younger people can’t make a living here, so go elsewhere)…and there are many quite-elderly homeowners living in their long-owned family houses which were built when there was no such thing as air conditioners and, if they were lucky-enough to have a basement or cellar (rare here) to go into for a cooler place to be, they’re not now able to go up and down the steep stairs and consequently suffer too much indoors in these hot-hot days. Fifteen years ago or so, I spent a summer delivering for Meals On Wheels with largely ‘senior’-aged customers, none of whom were in the best of health in the first place, and I’d see them putting their feet in a basin of cold water, wrapping wet cloths around their necks, fanning themselves with a newspaper to try to cool off, but it wasn’t enough. Some cities offer shelters where people can go to escape heat, but we don’t have resources like that here.
The good thing, however, is that WE GOT SOME RAIN for our drought-stricken areas, like my town/valley, and it’s just been wonderful to see everything washed off…we get very dirty since, under water restriction, we can’t hose off walkways or sidewalks or driveways (and things have gotten dusty with so much dry land which is just plain ‘ol dirt with nothing growing in it, like hills and vacant lots or people’s yards). Also, wow, to have the marvelous help of rainfall for wildfire; lucky! It will help us for a little while and was just the most unexpected, glorious thing this weekend! We captured buckets and buckets, plus three large barrels of rainwater which we’ll use for the landscaping in coming days. The only other bad thing besides the temperature is that this weather has now really popped out the bugs including one of my enemies, the mosquito. I attract them and it’s a weird mystery but the doctors have told me I’m what they refer to as ‘sweet’ which is very appealing scent-wise to a biting mosquito…another reason I was glad to leave the Gulf Coast, although I remain friends with people who don’t suffer from allergies or mosquito bites and who thoroughly enjoy that southern portion of our United States and its unique beauty. I’m always so geographically-challenged but my (wrong!) thinking had been that the Northeast was an overall colder part of the U.S. until I learned over the years that the whole eastern seaboard can really swelter in summer!
Yes, I’m allergic to molds and mildew among many other things, which is why humidity and I don’t get along. Thank goodness for a window air conditioner. It’s unbelievably hot in NYC right now, as well, and I worry about the poor and elderly that don’t have A/C.
I also am an attractor of mosquitoes. I was always told it was a scent thing as well as having pale skin. We have a lot of them this year. I tend to stay in after dark, because there are so many of them out and about at that time of day.
HHH here in Mississippi. Miserably so. Two of the grands were here for the weekend and we stayed inside to play!
I used to do yardwork no matter the temp, but I am no longer able to be out in it due to illness. I can only water my flowers early in the morning and sometimes cannot get to all of them before I am worn out. I miss that time in the yard; “I come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses…”.
By the way, where is the picture of the new earrings? Don’t tease us so!
Susan
It’s on Instagram, Susan. You can see them in the Instagram widget on my sidebar.
Unfortunately, we have the same weather..It’s short walks and ice collars in this neck of the woods…
I feel for you, Missy. Man, it’s exhausting! It makes me feel tired all of the time and I don’t like that!
Hot and humid here in northern IL, too. Tons of rain. I don’t spend much time outdoors either, except for my late evening walk.
I like tie-dye, but don’t wear it myself. I do love patchouli though. I have a natural body spray made by Zum that’s patchouli and orange.
The heat and humidity is always a pain where I live. (Texas). Even if you’re born into this kind of weather, it isn’t easy. You never get used to it. (Lately the heat index around here is usually at 100 or 101 – even at 8pm – so we try to water everything either really early or right before sunset).
We moved on our 2 acres a couple years ago and so far it’s been HARD because we’re constantly having to mow the grass. (I’ll take dry heat over humidity any day. The humidity is what really gets ya). My mother actually got heat stroke a few years ago…. in October. My cousin has, too, and both were instructed to always be safe from now on in temperatures like that because once you’ve gotten heat stroke just once, you’re at a much higher risk of getting it again. Your body literally can’t handle it and is more susceptible.
Heat like you experienced is actually really dangerous, so please be careful in it.