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Not going to happen….I’m firmly in the igloo club! By “acclimating”, I’m saying to myself “this doesn’t suck quite as bad as it did last week.” I’m a long way from enjoying it!

I have also noticed myself acclimating to the hot weather of late. I’m still ready for cooler weather, though!

I was also hesitant and just got my second Pfizer shot last week. I did some “research” but it’s hard/impossible to really “know” what is right. In the end, it came down to this for me: 4 of 8 people that I know first-hand who had the illness are dealing some kind of long term effect from the virus. I know of many, many more (100+?) people who have been vaccinated and I don’t know of even one negative effect except for the expected hungover feel for a day or two. Incidentally, I work for a private construction company full of strong conservatives (not bandwagon Trumpers but mainly long-term fiscal conservatives), and I was surprised that nearly everyone except me got the shot as soon as it was available for them.

I just mowed last night because it already needed it and it would be a mess later this week if I didn’t. It’s like peak May growing season in August!

I wish I kept statistics to back it up, but this summer definitely felt more hot, muggy, and wet than any summer I can recall in our area. It seems like if it wasn’t raining (often heavy), it was 80s-90s and super humid. Ironically, it was in the low 70s and cloudy both Saturday and Sunday and it felt great. Still humid but we were finally able to play some outside games at parties without misery. I can’t wait for the cooler and drier air this weekend! Looking forward to fall-like weather and will probably have a bonfire to celebrate!

How wet is the ground out there? Are you also having an extremely wet summer?

Based on the nest type/shape and location of the opening, I’m guessing that’s a “white-ass hornet”? Actually called a bald- faced hornet. Be careful around those things, they can be aggressive and come after you with an army and they aim for your face! I paid someone to remove a nest a few years ago because I was not going to mess them.

So the cooler temps that were supposed to arrive today/tomorrow are now “a few days away.” What a surprise….

Despite expecting increasingly hardcore liberalism and government mandates out of NYC, this one really shocked me. I wonder if they have replacements set up for those who choose to leave their job. I have to imagine an appreciable percentage will just leave (5-10%?) right at the start of a new school year. But at least there are plenty of applicants for most jobs right now, and teaching is something you can do with no background training or certifications….oh wait. Brilliant move.

It seems like it has either been raining or 85° and super humid. Night time lows have been oddly high (and humid) as well. This has turned out to be a remarkably moist summer.

Just got word of massive flooding in Woodhull, NY where we recently did some work. They are in a big long valley that flows NE into Corning, NY. I suspect we’ll see it on the news. NYS Rte 417 runs along that valley and has to be damaged in places based on what I heard about Woodhull.

We have been very lucky in the Catskills to be just on the eastern edge of all the rain thus far. We have not received 0.1” thus far, which is helping to keep our creeks down before the heavy rain hits tonight.

I’m hoping it’s not where that map shows it…my back yard. It has taken us 2 weeks of dry weather for the ground to start to firm up and I’m really hoping we don’t go back to soft summer mud, again…..

We ended up with about 2in over about 1.5hrs. Tiny little cell just sat on us. Thankfully we are pretty high in the watershed so the end result was mainly entertainment and some roadside ditches that need to be cleaned out. Our basement gets very wet during most “extreme” wet periods.

Just got a little over 1.5” in about an hour. Radar showed an extremely narrow band that happened to be right over our house (and my parents a mile down the road). Localized flooding over some roads, water flowing across basement floor. Fun.

This seems like the winner for our first “vertical” trial hike. Thanks!

Do you have any suggestions for decent hikes with younger kids? We have done a few hikes on NW side of the ADKs where it is pretty flat. They did good with a +/-6mi distance (total out and back). I’d like to find a hike with a decent view for them, but of course vertical hikes will wear them out much quicker.

That’s amazing and terrible. Just a fluke of bad luck, I assume.

It has been raining/misting for two straight days in eastern Lewis County. Hoping to see it move out soon and give us two nice days for the long weekend!

38° at my house this morning after 36° yesterday morning. Saw a little frost on a roof that must be in a prime radiational cooling area. I’m taking advantage of this nice sunny and cooler weather to replace the last part of my house roof this afternoon, tomorrow, and probably into Saturday. I also just got Sirius radio set up (Father’s Day gift) for the first time in +/-10 years! That will make it much more enjoyable!

36° low this morning and the 3rd morning with spotty frost this month!

I was on one of our jobs for about 1.5hrs this morning. Like 8:30-10am. Shirt soaked through, sweat running down my back, and I wasn’t even doing physical labor! If we had 90 more days of this, our company would call it quits because the crews’ production slows WAY down in this stuff (understandably). I don’t know how they do outside construction down south….

Never say never…. However, I do agree that it does seem like the “droughts” in my limited snapshot of 35 years here are really just across the span of a season or two. The idea of a multi-year drought is truly scary, but at least we (humans as a whole) now have the ability to just move to a new area, which seems like it may become necessary for many in the SW.

That’s interesting! I think of July & August as the classic summer months (probably due to the school schedule), but it does seem that June & July are the really hot months around here. By August the really hot spells are *generally* shorter in duration and the nights are usually cooling off better, especially by late August.

Yeah, I’m hoping this is the peak week for my grass pollen allergies. I don’t mind being in the office for these couple weeks of late May into June….it gives me a break from the pollen.