A time to whine

Stories of being hot.

•            We have figured out that we can only walk from 6:00 to 7:15 in the morning.  If you go before that it is dark and you can’t see and if you go after that it is way too hot.  You can also walk from 6:00 to 7:05 in the evening.  Too hot before 6 and dark after 7:05.  We walked home from the Rec Center and it was cooler but we left at 7 and it was too dark by the time we got home at 7:10.  All this means that it is unbearable to walk between 7:15am and 6:00pm.
•      The sun takes the water right out of you.  Dehydration is a big problem.  We each have to carry a water bottle around even when we are in the center.  We have never consumed so much water in one week and yet peed so little.  We’re learning to take the good with the bad.
•       When I say walk, and yes, we walk with a water bottle, that doesn’t just mean exercise walking.  We live below the main building.  Much of what we do is in the main building.  There is a slight slope up the 300 feet to the main building, a few steps but not many. I am usually soaked by the time I get up there.
•       Did I mention it is hot here?  It was 104 today and I was sitting in our apartment, calmly, for a long time, under the fan, dripping sweat.
•       We went to the American Rec Center today basically to sit in their “cool” room.  It was almost too hot for adults to be in the pool.  A couple of guys and their boys from the center played softball there, two games, in the sun, in the heat.  Thank God I am not young.
•       Did I say it is really hot here?  We went, around 3pm, to the Musee/Zoo yesterday with Barb, Mary, and two girls working on a Mary Magdalene movie.  It was billed as a shopping trip. That should have been a red flag in and of itself, but I was so hot I wasn’t thinking straight, so I went.  Most of the time was spent outdoors.  It was hot in the car, hot walking to the Musee, hot at the Musee, hot at each and every stall that was selling stuff, and hot going home.  Barb and Mary took us there.  They have been there before, several times.  They are saints for going back in the heat of the day.
•       The hot water in our place is not working yet.  It is not a problem.  Why in the world would you want hot water?  What you want is cold water.
•       Finally, sleep.  We have a fan and an air conditioner in our bedroom.  We have slept 2 nights without air so far.  It is doable, not nice but doable.  We will be using AC tonight.

I  am very sure I will be visiting this topic again, and again.  Sorry.  But we are constantly reminded that it is hot here.