I've worked hard not to whine, but this is the sixth day of this dreadfulness. Mostly, I have stayed inside, moving fans around to accentuate the coolest airflow through the house.
Karen and I were stir crazy enough yesterday to decide to take a field trip. At first she wanted to visit some garden. But she found out that it was more than an hour away and would close soon after we got there. We made the sane decision to wander more closely to home. We decided to visit several stores that are on the way to Enumclaw. The road winds through the Muckelshoot Reservation and farmland. The stores are more interesting than almost anything we have in downtown Auburn. There is a butcher where if I was so inclined I could purchase a side of beef or swine. They have lockers to store it in too. But it is great meat at decent prices. There is a farm store that sells fruits, vegetables and local selections of home made soaps and honey, greeting cards and Sasquatch paraphernalia . There is a flower shop, that is not to say a florist. But I would wager if you need flowers for a wedding they'd be able to handle it. How I wish we had something like this to walk to in our town.
Tomorrow will be hot again. If I could only wish it away! And then it will get cooler. I so need it to be cooler.
The kind of heat you have been experiencing is debilitating to say the least, but there is no reasonable expectation that it is already a permanent feature of our summers, and if anything will get worse and last longer. It's not a prospect any of us look forward to.
ReplyDeleteHi David. Welcome to my blog. I agree with your assessment that a dangerous climate change is upon us and that there is no reasonable expectation that it is a permanent feature of our summers. The earth has a remarkable resiliency and can heal itself when allowed in the span of a decade. But I do question whether that healing will result in the kind of reversal of global warming we need. I also have no expectation that mankind as a whole has the ability to cooperate with each other or the earth to allow that kind of healing to begin. Men will do what they perceive to be most beneficial for themselves and screw everyone else.
DeleteHang in there!
ReplyDeleteWe are returning to hot after a very nice week. However not that hot!
ReplyDeleteWe are lucky here to have amazing local farms that sell produce that they raise which includes all sorts of home raised meats and vegetables.
Little farms opened up little local stores and let me tell you, they are great to go to!
Stay cool. I dislike hot weather, I like cold weather.