It’s too HOT!
It’s hot people. I’m sorry to bemoan that fact since many of you are sweltering while reading this. But it’s pretty much all I can think about. We’ve been working out in the yard for the past three days and my stomach is feeling the heat. Since I turned 40 I get nauseated in extreme heat and I fight dehydration.
When we work outside, whichever of the kids is standing near me when a wave of nausea hits I cry out, “Hey you! Please run and get Mommy a popsicle.” Then, remembering I am the mother and they are the child I call after them, “Oh, and get yourself one too!” A few minutes later a green popsicle is thrust in my face and I start to eat….racing the heat to get the popsicle down before it melts.
They bring me green because no one likes them and they know I am desperate. I can’t ask for a different one because that would be ungrateful so they have me over a barrel. It is their way of getting the enormous amount of unwanted green popsicles out of the freezer so we can buy more.
Dear popsicle makers,
Please make boxes of only red, yellow and orange. And for goodness sake…no more blue! They drip down the baby’s arm and the blue never comes off. He’s permanently stained and people are beginning to think he is bruised from his wrist to his elbow.
Sincerely,
Desperately Hot Mother in Texas
My internet is apparently also affected by the heat. It has been acting up for the past few days and won’t let me leave comments on other blogs. I can read the blogs and I think they are amazingly clever and interesting, but I can’t leave those priceless comments letting the writer know that I am alive and hanging on their every word. Plus my internet problems are keeping me from being able to take care of my Facebook farm which could mean that my virtual animals are dying from this heat and I have no way to stop it.
It’s a sad day when you bury a fictional cow or chicken. Not as sad as Levi’s blue forearms, but sad nonetheless.
I know that some of you live in cooler climates and aren’t suffering the way we are.
We need your prayers. We need rain, cooler temperatures and red popsicles….in that order.
When Kregg got into his truck after work today, the temp said 113. I feel your pain! It’s actually only about 104 here, so I shouldn’t whine. Thankful you have kids to come to your rescue! Would hate for you to melt in a puddle. We, too, are praying for rain! 6/10ths of an inch since September for us.
It is going to be in the 90’s here the next few days…we have had rain off and on though.
I pray you all get rain soon!
Oh and I agree – NO Green Popsicles!
Deanna
My outside car temp. gauge said 119 the other day!!! Granted it was reading hot, but it was around 102….the first week of JUNE!! No Popsicles for me…iced coffee please!
We’re boxing up a small shipment– preparing for our 20th move in 30 years of marriage. Thankfully we have pleasant breezes outside the door of 228 at Storage Mart. And we do this work after 5:30 pm when we have shade. Looks like we’ll be done sweating like dogs tomorrow, so to celebrate, could you just meet us at Andy’s for turtle sundaes? They toast AND salt their pecans. No green arms, but you might be green with envy.
You could come see us… At 7250 feet, I’m still wearing a jacket for a good part of the day. We’ll be moving soon, though, and then I’ll be singing the same song you are.
I’ll swap you it has been miserable and cold here the last few days with a few more days yet of this, mind you our cold winter is probably similar to other peoples spring/autumn or even summer if you live in Alaska!
:We need your prayers. We need rain, cooler temperatures and red popsicles….in that order
Amen to the above quote of yours Lisa…I hope you don’t mind my plaugerism w/credit of course on FB.
Between the extra pain I am now dealing with and having to do it in this heat…I am done! !!!
I’m sorry…it’s my fault! Apparently, we still haven’t seen any summer temperatures yet. I’m sure you sucked all the heat away from this end of the country. I must say that I’m ever so grateful. It’s saving me a fortune in utility bills…and the ability to open our windows all day long is quite a blessing! So, I’ll try to send some of the cool air your way and you keep sending that hot air to the east!
Becky B.
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There is a reason that summer is my least favorite season. I am itching to decorate for fall… now!
I don’t know how you Texas people deal with this heat. It is simply unbearable. And it’s only June (frown). By the way, blue and green popsicles are the only ones that get eaten at this house. I have nine kids at the moment, so our popsicle ratio is probably about even — shall we arrange a swap? Or to solve the blue elbow dilemma, poke the popsicle stick through a baking cup (you know, a cupcake wrapper?) and all the mess will drip into there. Voila — no more bruised elbows! 🙂
Don’t forget grape…purple is my favorite!
It is so stinkin hot here in AL you can’t hardly stand it. I can only work in the garden in short bursts and that’s AFTER the sun is completely off the garden. We need rain sooooo bad. Thankfully we have a well with a pump or our garden would be in bad shape.