too effing hot

youch, buddy

Bolting is a thing, it happens and is a bummer, but you can't do anything about it except try to find more heat-resistant varieties next time. What kind of veg are we talking?

― quincie, Friday, July 19, 2013 11:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

long chinese radishes for the most part. Think I planted them too close together and initially in a too short container. Subsequently moved them into a much deeper one and they're still very short but now have flowers coming off the top. Well growing them was an enjoyable experience. Will do them differently if I do them again next year, I think it's to late to start again this year.

I dunno about chinese radishes, but every radish (cherry belle, french breakfast, snoglobe, etc) I've ever grown has bolted to shit at the slightest hint of summer heat. They germinate and put out foliage, but never develop a nice root. I am zone 7b (US) and seed them in February and March; no luck with seeds in April and thereafter.

if you're really warm it helps to drink eight beers, right?

rite

it is 86°f at 4am

Started getting heavy thunderstorms here about midnight last night, and it's still raining now. It broke the heat, but now we have flash flood warnings again because it dumped 4" of water in parts of the county overnight.

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Cat agrees with thread title

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i was woken up because it was cold this morning

i had to use the covers

it was glorious!!

33c / 91f forecast tomorrow in london

i don't think it has been than hot for several years

New York finally fucking livable again--that was so brutal

xp I can't tell if I'm getting used to the heat or if I'm just too tired to care any more.

33c / 91f forecast tomorrow in london

i don't think it has been than hot for several years

17° lows! far out

I am about to drive 45 minutes to the La Paz Applebees why because air conditioning. Followed by Hangover 3 why because most tolerable movie selection in town, plus you can get drink and food service by pushing a button on your leather chair arm, plus air conditioning.

Are they going to have an intermission during Hangover 3?

i do not have the ac on today. it is delightful.

Yeah, there's a high of 72 today!!!!! I have the windows open!!!!! I am going to go outside voluntarily!!!!!

green with envy here, not kidding

I was actually chilly for a second outside. At 72º! I'm like one of those Gulf Coast assholes who would say today is crisp or chilly.

I just opened the window in my office and it is beyond wonderful.

it broke down into the 50s last night! the world is beautiful

We are going to Maine in September to a place with no AC and I'm sure the property owner was amused by my 3rd-degree interrogation about what temps to expect. If I find myself even a little bit warm against my will during our stay, I'm going to file a claim on our vacation insurance.

Are you going to be seaside? Because the furthest up my torso my testicles have ever been was when I dared to jump into the Atlantic Ocean on the Maine seaboard in the middle of August.

'sup, internet.

About 20 minutes inland, I'm afraid. I wanted to be on Peaks Island, a ferry ride from Portland, but my wife has been a big fucking baby a bit recalcitrant on that front.

You were right the first time.

wearing a cardigan right now

what a wonderful morning

i nearly wept

this weather is too weird. I can't even really process it. I feel disturbed and uneasy.
the forecast for much of august (yeah I know there's no way to really forecast a month) is all mid 70s etc., and that makes me uneasy too.
I can wrap my brain around a heat wave, but I can't wrap my brain around a cool summer.

mid 70's and rain. nothing but gray and middling temperatures, and presumably humidity. no reason to live.

Oh, in that case I won't mind not going to the beach so much if I go back to work.

If this temp could hold for tomorrow too, I can wear a suit to my interview in peace and not in sweatiness. That would be nice.

I want to live where August is always mid-70s and rainy. We moved to Chicago in August in the middle of a week-long run of 60 degree highs. Having nothing to compare it with and so not knowing that was unusual, I was convinced we would freeze to death and die by October.

august was gonna be my beachgoing month.

Xpost I did. RIP me.

;_____;

Well maybe it'll surprise all of us and be dangerously hot and children and the elderly will have to be evacuated to cooling centers, and stray cats will die in sun-baked empty lots. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT???

xp

WmC, next summer you can consider joining me for the SABR con in HOUSTON. I can't wait to see which month.

no reason to live.

can i have yr stuff

I don't know what I really want anymore. just a little sun I guess.

no one gets my stuff. my apt will become a museum, forever preserving this golden era in my life. you should visit though, it'll be really interesting.

it'll be like 2013 never went away. preserved in amber.

Yes, except that most of the things in your apartment are from 1965 or earlier.

So it'll be more like 1978 never went away.

what a wonderful morning

i nearly wept

― mookieproof, Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:47 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES

the forecast for much of august (yeah I know there's no way to really forecast a month) is all mid 70s etc., and that makes me uneasy too.
I can wrap my brain around a heat wave, but I can't wrap my brain around a cool summer.

WHERE IS THIS? BRB MOVING THERE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxeXHMHOcqQ

hey man it's MY 2013