If you're in Texas, don't go outside

[StellaBlue]

It's summertime.

I'm in Austin.

I just walked to the public library and back. About seven blocks one way, two blocks another. It was bearable on the way, so long as I stayed in the shade. But the walk back, at 1pm, carrying a bag of books over my shoulder? I now need to take a shower.

Luckily, the turquoise pool is empty and calling to me...

[Xipe Totec]

1. That's why the siesta was invented

Go back in and don't come out till sundown.

[StellaBlue]

2. That's what I'm thinking.

For a minute, when I was walking right in the direct sunlight, no tree in sight, next to a Spanish colonial-style building, I felt like I was back in Malaga. Egads.

Time for some sangria and indoor reading.

[Xipe Totec]

4. I've been to the house where my mother was born

Centuries old, right across the Rio Grande in South Texas, near Mission TX. The walls are made of adobe, three feet thick. The main floor is also three feet below street level. Double doors on either edge of the the walls form an air lock. The purpose of those massive walls and sunken construction is to create thermal mass; to keep a relatively constant cool temperature inside the house. The Spaniards who colonized South Texas came from Extremadura and brought with them the tricks and techniques to survive in such extreme environments.

It may be time to resurrect those techniques, as we move beyond the era of cheap oil and central air conditioning.

[texanwitch]

3. Only mad dogs and yankees go out in the afternoon in Texas, the rest

of us know better.:rofl:

[Spacemom]

5. Another Austinite

Just got back from the grocery store. I thought the walk in to the store would do me in. It's batshit insane hot out there.

Riddick joke: If I owned that out there and hell, I'd rent that out and live in hell.

[AlCzervik]

6. i remember when we lived in Houston how humid it got, you take a

shower, walk outside and feel like you need another shower already.

[musette_sf]

7. thanks for the memories

I now work near Candlestick Point. I'm wearing a boiled wool coat around campus in June. The wind is unreal. I've even gotten to the point that I semi-bitch about it.

Then I read your post, and thanked the Great Spirit for my good fortune.

[GOPisEvil]

8. I just got back from the convention.

Walking 7 blocks to and from the hotel to the convention center was not much fun during the hottest part of the day. :sigh:

I'm home and under the ceiling fan now. :)

[Deja Q]

9. Won't you have to fill the pool with water first?

:rofl:

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Your library is open on Sunday? Wow!

[scoey1953]

11. Its called Natural Air Conditioning ....awwwwwwww

The best part about Summers in San Francisco is the fog, while over in Concord its 108 degrees here,
in the city its a cool 55 degrees. Oh so what, its grey...at least its cool. Our REAL summer comes in the fall. When everyone else is cooling down, we have summer weather, 60-70 clear blue skies... and
still no rain for months.

[hfojvt]

12. the heat is not nearly as bad

as the flying scorpions. Especially the hugh ones. I'm sirius.