Too hot in those deserts for me! Too cold in Siberia!

I was thinking about that the other day Juli. About how hot it must be even in the middle of the night where Linda lives. We used to get temps. like 85 @ 2 am & thought that was bad but I bet Linda could fry an egg on the sidewalk @ 4 am.

I too will stay away from the extremes in temps. Was watching a house hunters the other day, some Canadians moving to the Turks & Caicos. When they left home the temp. (or maybe wind chill) was MINUS 51. My mind truly can not fathom how people deal with that. Completely beyond my comprehension.

It is very hard to open your eyes or breathe at minus 30 or below! I'll take the sweltering, as long as there is AC, hydration, and showers available, anytime! I can remember having to gulp warm air in the house and feel my way to the car in the morning at 30 below (eyes frozen shut, moist airways at risk of painful and short-breath freezing if you so breathe) ... and then, yah, the car battery, even if plugged in, is reluctant to get you out on the blind-ice roads.

Extremes really keep people on their toes looking for news ways to make things safe and sound. Take care out there you guys!

Oh my Tina. That gave me a good idea of what it's like. No thank you.

I just cannot imagine it. I freak-out if I have to put a jumper on.

Looks nice and sunny out and probably will reach 80 today. I see several daylilies trying to open this morning so more pictures to take.

Surprise, surprise. I woke up to sunshine this morning, clearing out all those rain clouds we had yesterday. We may have a pop up thundershower this afternoon in the mountain areas, but right now, its looking beautifully sunny with blue skies overhead, temps around 72 today, humidity about 50%. By the weekend, temps will be in the 80's.

Sharon, poor baby. I don't envy you those temps and humidity. One week during our summers here, we have those conditions. Since I don't have air conditioning at all, I have to suffer thru that humidity, opening all my sliders and windows, feeling much like a 'wet noodle'. On those nights, I usually sleep out on my deck under the stars. Cold showers are the norm. Last summer we really didn't have that heat/humidity, shades of the polar vortex that was to come last Winter. I would rather have the heat, than that interminable arctic blast for days on end. A result of the cold that blasted the US last Winter, was the US GNP fell 2.9% in the 1st quarter of this year. That is really astounding!! Too cold for anyone to leave there homes. You know, when I moved to VT. years ago, I came here for the beauty of this part of the country and to ski. But as the years flew by, it was the summers that I fell in love with. Gracious, warm but not too hot, wildflowers everywhere, wildlife in abundance, and the comfort of these old mountains (Appalachian) enveloping my spirit with, as Keats writes, an 'Ode to Joy'. Since, I don't ski anymore, I would gladly trade our long winters, for the beauty and sumptuousness of the Spring, Summer and Fall here. I find the Winter's now to be far to confining and way to cold, especially last Winter. So, it's a trade off.

Sharon, I am surprised that your state of Kentucky is experiencing such high temps, and horrible humidity so early in the Summer. Is this the norm for your area? Cindy, yes, I always check your blogs out here because I know most of our weather comes right across from the Great Lakes, where you are situated, to VT. So thanks for the early weather forecast It's better than our weather guessers!!

Alex, when you sleep outdoors, don't the mosquitos eat you up??? We have so many of them here that it would be impossible to sleep outdoors unless you were plastered with repellent.

Cindy, I know VT has a lot of problems with mosquitos, especially up and around Lake Champlain. We have had a relatively dry Spring this year compared to last year. So for me mosquitos have not been an issue. The fact that I am 2000 ft above sea level in the mountains also helps keep the mosquitos at bay. Not saying they are not here, but just not a big issue for me. A bigger issue is the 'no seeums', a tiny little knat that has a wicked itchy bite, that attack me in my garden, in the late afternoon, when the sun cools down. Their little bites can itch for days.

Oh, I forgot about the elevation. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. We get those knats in northern Michigan and they do leave a nasty bite, along with the darn deer flies.

Minus 51! No wonder those people moved to where it is warm.

Ales, I sure do hope next winter is not like this past horrid winter!

Alex, I sometimes forget you live in the same mountains that I grew up in, except you are far north and I was far south. The southern part of the Applachians is much more like the areawhere you live, cooler always than here. But I moved almost 500 miles to the other end of the state and my temps fit more into the plains climate than yours. It makes a difference. We always have hot humid summers here. I have to go 'back home' to cool off.

Nice today, though , and not nearly as humid. I might win the weed battle today. Ha.

Someone weeding today? I just finished my own hemerocalisthenics for the day, whew!

No kidding Alex? You guys have no seeums? Wow. I thought they were only on the coast & I never imagined they were so far north. No seeums are awful! I imagine them as nothing but huge teeth like flying invisible piranhas.

ah the imagery! great description of what they are doing and the way they pretty much shut down any progress in the garden!

They are predicting 109 with increasing humidity for the 4th of July. Just shoot me now.....

Ann, it stayed in the low 80's last night, I think.

Linda, it just isn't fair that you are getting stuck with that awful heat. Makes me hesitate to say that it is 64 here and drizzling. I'm sending it your way. Had lots of daylilies bloom today, some for the first time since they moved in, and they are soggy, but pretty!

Natalie. Your weather sounds perfect, please enjoy it for me. I think there is an invisible wall around Arizona that keeps your weather from us. I am sure your daylilies were singing and dancing in that kind of weather but the funny thing is mine have also done great despite the totally opposite weather from you. Tough plants !

Oh Linda. Happy 4th of July to a day spent indoors! Too, too hot. I would pass out from that kind of heat or anything near it.

It is humid here today but not a bad summer day in my opinion.

Hot here this week with rain, power outages, and humidity....makes for sweaty work outside. Note to self....don't lift the tee shirt too high when wiping sweat off face...neighbors might not want to be flashed.