Ramblings of a Crowe

IT'S HOT!!! （あついだよ！）

Yes folks....it's hot...it's too damn hot...and I'm going to bitch and moan about it all summer. I'm a total baby when it comes to the heat...I whine. I cry. I get cranky. I'm a complete and total wuss about it...I'll admit it. As a matter of fact, today it was only about 95 degrees out...which is a normal early summer day for around here...However, our weather people are predicting temps over 100 by Wednesday and I'm already complaining about 95 degree heat...

You think I'd be use to it considering I've lived in a desert all my life. I'm not talking like Sahara desert or anything like that, though we do have honeset to God sand dunes around here (like you see in the movies). Think more like those pictures of Arizona or southern Utah...Ah, now you're getting it...Sage brush and rocks...yup...that's where I live...Who ever called Washington State, "The Evergreen State," was a dumbass. Where I live, there are no evergreen trees and it's brown 95% of the year...I get the biggest kick out of those stupid highway signs that say "Keep Washington Green." Tell me, oh wise DOT, whenever was my Washington green? I'd certainly like to know. I think "Please Don't Burn My House Down" is far more appropriate for this neck of the woods. Range fires are a HUGE problem here...it's kinda scary sometimes, though thanks to the farms, my home is surrounded by a huge firebreak, so I have pleanty of time to evacuate if things get out of hand. Ha ha...at least I hope so...

Of course, the entire "Keep Washington Green" motto was created by the west side of the state, which is covered in forests. As every Washingtonian knows, us over here on the east side of the mountains don't count for anything...even though it's US who feed all the tree huggers and city dwellers...but what's a little food matter to people anyway, right? Just ask the director of the Environmental Agency ( forgot his name)...he'll tell you that nothing touches his plate comes from the Columbia Basin area. His lunches must be hell of expensive then, since one has to consider the amount of agriculture that contributes to our entire NATION from this area alone...Eat any apples lately? How about wine? Oh, and that lie about the Idaho potato...Washington out produces Idaho in potatoes with LESS ACERAGE. Image that...How about wheat or anything made from wheat? Sure the midwest has more acreage than us, but whose getting more per bushel? How about meat? Guess where mad cow first showed up? Heh, in a little town an hour from where I live...great stuff, eh (I will give Canada credit for sending it to us though...I think it's the first thing they've contributed to us in a while, besides supplying our drug dealers with pot...)? But ask the west side of the state, and we don't contribute anything to Washington because we aren't surrounded by Godly sky scrapers and over crowded roads...because our towns are less than several hundred thousand people, because we support the use of chemicals to feed people and think fish welfare should come after that of human beings...*sigh* And city folk think we're ignorant...

Anyway, I'm not going to bitch about east vs west...well, I just did, but that's okay...I was talking about how damn hot it is over here...

Honestly, I wish it could stay a nice, even 85 during the summer. That would be nice, I could live with that. And a little humidity from time to time would be nice. I'm not talking about the kind of humidty you get down south either. Nope. I hate that too. After spending a month in Oklahoma City visiting realitives several years ago, I'd had more than enough humidity to last my entire life time....it sucks...It does irk me, however, when people try to point out how their humid summers must be far worse than mine since we don't get all sticky and sweaty...Yeah, that's true...we just BAKE TO DEATH...but it's all good. Nothing beats stepping outside at 8am and it's already 80 degrees outside with little to almost no moisture in the air. I might as well shove myself in an oven and turn it on broil...I imagine that's about the same effect...I haven't tried it yet...Oh, and try breathing when it's 110 outside with no humidity...yeah, thats fun. Invest in lip balm and lots of bottled water...because you'll be a corn husk by dusk if you don't...

I remember vacationing in California with my family when I was young and listening to all the LA locals talk about the heat...Now I'm well aware that many area's of Southern Cal. get incredibly hot. A good friend of mine lived in Hemit for many years and she still talks about how bad the summers were there. I've got two cousins who can vouche for it too...but I was in LA, and it was like 95 there, which is hot...but back at home (here in Washington) it was 117 degrees outside...95 never sounded so good! Thankfully, I can't remember a time when it's been over 120, though some have said that out in the "area" as we call it here, the record is 124 degrees. ("The Area" is out in the middle of no where and is where they have the nuclear power plant...it's nothing but desert and sparse buildings).

I guess I'm just grumpy...this heat makes me irritable. It's hard to sleep. It's hard to think. Mom won't use the airconditioner until one of us passes out on the sidewalk. I've already complained and pleaded tonight...she got me a fan...how nice...*laughs* I already have one though, but it's the thought that counts, right? ;-) My poor lizard is stuck in her cage, and I'm refusing to turn on her heat lamp...she must think the apocolypse has come since the sun hasn't come out yet today...Poor Muffin...

And perhaps I'm also grouchy because Hunter has left me for six weeks and I miss him. He left yesterday, but still...I don't have anyone to play with...*laughs* I hope August 1st comes soon, so he can come home to me! Also, tomorrow is my birthday...but that doesn't bother me. I'm actually happy I made it another year! Yay for me! If i can last two more, I'll have reached the 30 mark! Simply amazing!

Posted by Zoso at June 21, 2004 10:11 PM