How’s The Weather Where You Are?

I could never get used to that kind of cool weather all the time. I ache so bad in the mornings I can't stand it. The coldest I have ever lived in was Oklahoma City and the winters would drop below freezing often like 4 degrees or sometimes more. My earmuffs would be frozen to my hair by the time I walked 3 blocks to school. The ceilings in our old farm house were around that 9 foot mark as all old houses were built in the early 1900s. It was like that so the house was actually cooler in summer but it sure didn't help in winter. As always we had one space heater and it was in the TV room and turned off at bedtime. I guess it wasn't so bad being so young but I could never understand why stay cold when you work to pay heating bills. Now I did understand why we never owned an air conditioner or colored TV. It was always floor fans or in some houses over the years it was a hallway attic fan that sucked you up off your feet if it turned on while standing under the intake. That was fun, it made your hair stand straight up.

 

They are still there? I am impressed. But I figured it would take a couple of years or more to 'get in the groove' even if you have common sense.

 

I think it hit 90 yesterday. It is supposed to be cooler today and was supposed to rain, finally.
But it didn't. I put down some wild flower seeds, that I had left, over preparing for it.
No rain for a few more days in the prediction.

 

I believe they are of "independent means", but they both got jobs as they found they didn't like each other that much after being snowbound in their small cabin all winter...a long winter!

 

I still dream of moving into my barnhouse instead of to Alaska. It is minimally habitable. But if hubby moves on, I would give it a try. would have to put a strong rail along the front steps to get in, now, sell hubby's house... And have wood delivered. But I think it is set up enough for me( with addition of a rubbermaid tub). It helps that daughter number two is still in the main house. The winters are easier than Alaska but my friend in Juneau says hers are easier than mine. and growing season is longer.
I even have an alternate thought about the wood.

 

The heat here is just brutal today, I fed the cats in the bathroom around 4:30 and the 3 new little ones which are moving around really well were standing between the legs of their Aunt and Uncle while they ate. In about two days I plan on buying another cheap floor fan so I can use this old one to set in front of that bathroom door and have it blow this cooler air from the hallway thru the door crack into the bathroom. It is still cooler in the bathroom than outside but a fan should bring it down to a nice level during the day. When I go in I can feel the cool air coming in thru the crack in the door and the mother cat lays down along the bottom of the door so it must be pretty cool there. These little ones are so cute, sorta small and stubby but they are young and will grow. Going to be hard to name those because one looks just like it's Aunt and has that black hood on it's head and around the eyes.

The other two won't be so hard to name because one is not really black but a gray black color. Both have those white booties and markings. Still watching their Grandmother to see if her litter will eventually find their way here following her. Once they do that I will feed them on the front porch as I did this other grown litter that live in the bathroom. As they get older they will learn to come into the bathroom and feed with the rest of the family. The rain has eluded us for the past several days and just when you really need it for a cool down. Lots of bad weather north of us but I doubt we will even see anything of it. I would love to see some rain.

 

Southeast Alaska isn't really considered Alaska by most of us. It is more like Seattle, both weather--wise and politically--than most of Alaska. Someone put the capital there back in the days when life was tough in the rest of the territory. Alaskans voted to move the capital to Willow in the 1970s, but Juneau had enough political pull to bypass the state residents wishes.
This is not the place to move to as a senior, though, as life is generally tougher, with the cold and dark in winter, and the stress of the endless daylight in summer.

 

Did read some article that the weather in Seattle is akin to the English weather.

 

Getting HOT here today, as in 93. But, where we are moving to, it will be 98 today and next week it will be 105/106. But, still better than -10 at 7AM and inches-to-feet of snow in the winter.

Perhaps, after we no longer have our boat, will move to the Reno area, which is much cooler in the summer.

 

Perhaps. Are your winters cloudy, sullen and miserable? Our daughters who live in the Seattle area say the Alaska dark winter is preferable to the Seattle gloominess since our winter, though dark and cold, has bright, sunny days and stunning nights with the aurora and when the moon is full it is almost daylight on the snow.

 

yes first 3 months of year short days cloudy and grey-

 

Last night we had to go to basement - wind gusts of 70 mile an hour. Today 6;27 sun ciming up bit cloudy suppose to be in 90s,,so Hot