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Originally Posted by gracielove  I can just imagine him with his nose in the air! Maybe he thought that after such a long hot summer that fall was never coming back!  I cannot imagine living with that much heat for so long.
One of my kids moved to the south a few months ago. It's so opposite of how we live up here. We are inside for most of the year due to snow, ice and cold while in the south people stay inside for so many months due to extreme heat. Of course life goes on despite the weather but extremes of either type of temperature sure makes life more of a challenge. |
Well, it's not that bad since we have good weather the whole rest of the year - the fall, winter, spring, early summer. We aren't inside all that long and we have AC in homes, buildings, cars to keep it from being bad. It's usually only really unbearable to go to daytime outdoor activities for about 2 1/2 mos. when it's very hot
and humid for those wussiest of us. And no snow or days of rain to fight hardly ever. I have never shoveled or could not go about due to snow in my life. We never get cabin fever down here & are always on the go. The only people who really suffer terribly from the heat are those who might not have AC or have to work outside days in the hot sun so most of us avoid the worst of it, thankfully, going about in cooled cars to the cooled buildings, etc. But, boy, at the end of a Texas summer and the house being closed up for so long, I do get anxious for the cool weather of fall and opening up the house all around. You know what I couldn't abide is that same weather all year round like where it's always warm or always chilly/cold. No seasons to speak of and very few chilly rainy days when you can cuddle up with an afghan throw, a good book and the Yorkie, such as summer resort towns - or it's always so chilly or plain cold you can't go out & about a lot. Had a friend who lived in Alaska for 7 years and he said they basically had 2 mos. to get things done, travel about, picnic, etc., and then it was hole up indoors for the rest of a long, dark, frigid year with dangerous cold & not that much sunlight for months on end. I guess we're pretty lucky where we all live compared to some places.