After being busy with grandma along with battling health issues, and dealing with brutally hot weather, I got the lawn mowed. Front, back, and sides.
Grass does not grow that fast in hot dry weather.
The front lawn grows faster than the back since that is on the south side of the house. I mow that two times for every one time I do the back and sides.
My health issues have somewhat stabilized. I am having less agitation since the Invega was increased a month ago and I'm eating less since I started the Topamax so I'm having less issues with GERD. But I'm seeing the Gastroenterologist in October.
Allergies are bad, I can't wait to shower when I get home from the mall. I'm covered in lawn debris from using the weed eater. That hassle free weed eater from Craftsmsn is a breeze, especially with the pre-cut line and 4-cycle engine.
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Honestly, This is New England. "Brutally hot" seems a little overboard, Not Phoenix, ya know,... LOL
Phoenix is hot. "But it's a dry heat" - You might be dehydrated, but you're dry as can be!
New England is hot. "But it's the humidity that'll kill you" - You might not be dehydrated, but you can be completely soaked with sweat!
Having spent time in both, I think it is truly a toss up between the 115 degrees dry heat versus the 90+ degrees with extremely high humidity which can become difficult to breath in.
New England however additionally has the opposite extreme to deal with as well: Wintertime temps that can stay below 0 degrees for several weeks, and cold dryness that causes the skin on your hands and face to crack and bleed painfully. You need double of everything: yard care equipment (lawn mowers + snow blowers); Heat + AC; Shorts + Winter wear.
Finding that perfect weather place to live might be possible, just not affordable!
And dealing with brutally hot weather, I got the lawn mowed. Front, back, and sides.
LOL Honestly, This is New England. "Brutally hot" seems a little overboard, Not Phoenix, ya know,... LOL
I was living in Iowa during the Chicago heat wave in 1995, it was brutally hot there as well too.
I wasn't taking antipsychotic medication back then and I was only 11 years old so I was able to handle it better than I would of today. Those meds make it harder for the body to regulate temperature, it says it right on the pharmacy slip to avoid excessive heat.
We did not have an air conditioner back then but we bought one the following summer. We lived in a small house at the time that you could cool the whole house with a 5000 BTU window unit. Plus we had plenty of tree cover.
New England however additionally has the opposite extreme to deal with as well: Wintertime temps that can stay below 0 degrees for several weeks, and cold dryness that causes the skin on your hands and face to crack and bleed painfully. You need double of everything: yard care equipment (lawn mowers + snow blowers); Heat + AC; Shorts + Winter wear.
I'm in CT, which is part of New England and the temperatures this past winter were never that low, unless you're talking Celsius. I think they went into the single digits one or twice, but usually the lowest was around 18F and some days it was around 40F.
True, we did have that blizzard that snowed us in for a day, but they had the roads passable on Sunday.
Amazing that accounts for a 40% dip. I'd propose a significant portion of that dip would go away given enough time as people swapped to alternatives. At just a few minutes, most people were probably just waiting it out or thought the problem was at their end.
I'll admit though, if both Google and Bing went offline simultaneously I'd have to do some thinking to find an alternative search engine. Probably go to wikipedia and search for search engines, lol.
If your one of those privacy freaks or one of those freaks that thinks Google is the evil empire, there's always the Ducky search engine.
Back in the early days I used a combination of WebCrawler, Excite and Lycos, then moved on to Yahoo, and now Google. If Google ever went down, and presumably the database behind Google Now went along with it, it would be official, I would no longer want to be alive anymore.
An oven is dry heat but that doesn't mean I want to stick my head in one.
This!
I been in Vegas when it's 100+ degrees of dry heat and was thankful I live in Alabama. Dry heat to me is like sitting in front of a heat gun (aka: high powered hair dryer for the layman). That being said; I hear dry heat is fine if you can find some shade. Good luck with that...