Hot,hot,hot

It really got strange yesterday.
Went up to 103F....
Then a sudden thunderstorm blew in and dropped 1.4" of rain in 1/2 hour....
then the temp dropped to 80F in the next 1/2 hour.....
then it rose to 90 in another 1/2 hour...
then it fell back to 78F overnight.

Projected to be a cool 97F today.

I'm hitting the shop shortly.
 
After a week of airconditioner use, the weather turned cool and is staying that way for the time being, last evening I had to fire up the wood furnace, and it looks like I will have to fire it up again later today. Going to make the best of it, and work on the deck some more, and might get a chance to cut some of this huge lawn we have here if I have the strength.
 
I got out to the shop early this morning. I ground blades for six straight hours, taking cool-off breaks about every hour.
I made a lot of progress, but it is 99F in the shop now, so I am staying in till after 8PM, and then I'll grind for a few more hours. I went through six 1/2L bottles of water.
 
The Ozarks are smokin right now, well the humidity looks like smoke...

Puttin AC in the shop was by far the best move I ever made. :)
 
Turned on the air conditioning in the shop when I went out at 7:30AM. Stopped for lunch at noon at 112 in the carport. Nice brown grass in the yard. No relief in sight.
 
Made good progress on the deck in the cool weather, but had to put on 2 pic coils to keep the mosquitos at bay as they are quite prolific with the wet spring and summer. I should be able to finish it off today, before moving onto the firewood effort followed by the new outhouse that I will build using some of the good boards left over from the old deck. After all that gets done then its back into the knifemaking shop.
 
It's been about 100 - 105 degrees here for the last two weeks. It's about 120 degrees on the second floor of my shop.

I worked in the yard for 2 hours before I had to stop. It looked like I jumped in a pool afterwards.

Hopefully I can get some knives made this week.
 
I got up at 5:30 AM to get some cool shop time today, now off to work. We have been lucky only a few days over 100 F this year hopefully.
 
Finished the deck yesterday, looks good and feels good underfoot. There is talk from the weather people that we might get another shot of warm weather later this week, might have a chance to enjoy some summer on the new deck before moving onto firewood and a new outhouse.
 
Hot, yes sir it is hotter here than fresh sex in a pepper patch. Humidity is high as well, with no rain in sight. The lawn is on its last leg while it receives watering as allowed. I am thinking the best approach to a lawn is astro-turf. What I do not understand is the fig, lime and pear trees are over loaded with fruit and bent over and resting on the ground?
 
Had a hiker die yesterday in Palo Duro. She got separated from her hiking partner and they found her four hours later dead from heat exhaustion. It was 120F on the trail.

--nathan
 
The weather people have backed off from the forecast for hot weather, cool weather will continue to prevail which means more work will get done outside. I can get a start on moving firewood, so that the delivery man can drop off another ten cords for me to buck and split a bit at a time, and keeps the furnace oil truck away.
 
Drove around on my job yesterday . The car thermometer stayed at 104 and in certain areas went up to 106. Sat and Sun were another 112 degree days.
 
Wouldn't you know it, I leave the breezy tropics to visit family in New England and end up there during a bloody record breaking heat wave! I still managed to get a forge welded up ready for the next time I get there. I remember one time when I was just starting out farming in Waianae, a very arid and hot area of Oahu. I left a good job in the city (♪♪♪) so I wasn't well conditioned to laboring. I drank a whole gallon of water my first day of work and never peed once. So I started drinking more water (not beer, that can really get you in trouble with heat) and working less. :D

Tai Goo said:
...I've been thinking about getting a new pet to help pass the time. A Burro!
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Ha, ha, ha...or should I saw haw, hee, haw?! Actually I had one. She was a real sweetie named Kita, as in Donkey-ta. Raise her up with two goats. They were a hoot to see together each a different earth tone of gray, brown and honey and all with big ears. The goats would climb up on Kita and nibble on her ears. The children LOVED her, and she them. When my lease went south and I was selling off everything, I got more for her than two full grown lactating cows with calves. I told my wife, if I ever farm again I should raise donkeys. My step daughter and her friend said, "Ya then you could call it Phil's Ass Farm!" Kids, everyone should have at least one to keep them humble and duly chagrined!

Here's Kita as a youngster with young children...
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Here she is with one of the older grade school students...
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But Monique was my favorite...
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Here she is many moons ago with her half sister, Mabel and yours truly...
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Tai Goo said:
I can't smoke weed anymore, because it aggravates my OCD, bi-polar-ism, tourettes syndrome and most of my phobias...
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Dang, add in ADD and dyslexia and that'd make a perfect sig line!!!
 
Phil,... So you think I should get a burro, huh? LOL :)

I was thinking a bluegrass tune, but the sig line idea isn't bad.

We just got back from the mountains up north, came back with a cooler full of fresh crawdads. It actually snowed at the lake while we were there. Nice break from the heat.
 
You might be onto something with the Bluegrass idea. Here's one on the other topic...


Georgia Mules And Country Boys
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Osborne Brothers

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Intro:
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Georgia mules and Country boys are fading fast away

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1st Verse:
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I know the world goes on we can’t keep living in the past
Still there's a thing or two I sure do wish could last
I’ve got a crazy case of blue nostalgia
Remembering mules and corn fields out of my past

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2nd Verse:​
I see lots of kids these days in jeans of faded blue
they never saw a mule but they're nostalgic too

They're trying hard to capture what is missing
although they know deep down those days are through

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3rd Verse:​
How many girls do you know now that ever milked a cow
How many boys that ever walked behind a plow
and who have you seen lately churning butter
who do you even know that might know how
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Chorus:
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Well you don’t see many mules these days you don’t see many mules
and you don’t see many old boys balling hay
I ain’t knocking progress but it hurts me some to say
that Georgia mules and Country boys are fading fast away
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One problem with drinking lots of water to deal with heat is that it flushes out your electrolytes, potassium in addition to sodium is critical. In the metals plant I worked in the workers in the furnace room and the rolling mill were kept hydrated with a product called Sqwincher http://sqwincher.com/index.html
Potato chips have surprisingly high potassium content, as does yoghurt (I can't make this up, read the nutrition labels)
I flushed out my electrolytes at a medieval society event about 6 years ago and made myself really sick, took a few days to figure out what was going on, once I got my electrolytes back in balance I was fine again but did a lot of research on the subject.

-Page
 
Well, Page's electroytes may have got back in balanced....but he is still unbalanced :)





In Georga, they had to stop teaching drivers ed. in high school because the state now has a mandatory Sex Education program. Seems like it was too hard to find enough mules to do both ;)
 
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