It’s been up over 30°C for the last three days, 26°C the day before those, and it was 3°C on Thursday with drizzle and attempted flurries. Now we have humidity and summer temperatures. When do we get those six weeks of warm, breezy, sixteen degrees days of comfortable sweater weather where we can build up a tolerance for the sunshine, and the returning heat. This jump right back into the full heat of summer is too much. As I get older I need a longer lead time to adjust bodily to both hot & cold. Swinging up and down, back and forth just makes me feel ill. I was honest to goodness woozy when doing my wife’s tires on Sunday after about an hour in the hot sun. It took maybe fifteen minutes to feel the same way on Monday when I did the van.
I have only felt that bad in the heat once, and it was last summer, standing in line for Alpen Fury at Canada’s Wonderland with my eldest daughter, when it got up to 43°C plus whatever the humidex added to the final tally. I had bought us cold drinks, one each, when I should have bought three or four each. People passed out in the three hour long line around us. Colour drained out of their faces, and then they just collapsed onto the concrete floor. It wouldn’t have taken much for us to follow suit, but we made the most of our time near the misting fans, and once we completed our first ever ride we opted to get slushies and go straight home. The car AC was turned to MAXIMUM OUTPUT, and we both had a lie down when we got home.
I’m not good with extreme heat. Warm is good. Cool is ok. I hate cold & hot. Canada has a lot of all four!
I gotta run the dog to the vet shortly, so pray for my wallet. Pills, and blood tests, I’m sure they’ll take me for at least five hundred bucks, just you watch.
I might have a third surprise Cherry tree growing in my yard, so that’s cool. My four newly transplanted trees all look well so far. Glad to see that. The Lilacs are now purple, so they should start to get scented before too much longer. June is near!
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