Tuesday, August 5, 2008

HADES


I realize that I live in Texas by choice...actually be default; it's where my parents settled. I moved away to North Carolina but returned to Texas...it's home so I shouldn't complain BUT it's hotter than Hades here this week! We reached 106 yesterday and 104 today! You step outside and you just wilt. People talk about "oh it's a dry heat" as opposed to a "wet heat" like Houston is...let me tell you...at 106 it doesn't matter if it's wet or dry because you're going to have sweated off a gallon of water in a matter of seconds! Hot is HOT! One of the "yard sticks" that we Texans hold up is that Phoenix Arizona is usually much hotter than Dallas (where I am) but yesterday they were a cool 90! I've been to Phoenix and let me tell you it's hot there! I've actually taken an egg, cracked it on the pavement and fried it in Phoenix! Yesterday I have a feeling all you had to do was take the egg, still in its shell, outside and it would have hard boiled in seconds! I could move, this is true, but I'm settled and getting old so here I sit, in a puddle of sweat, with the ceiling fan going full blast and the Air Conditioner working overtime! If it weren't for the fact that people come in my office I might even have stripped down to my undies!

I would never have made it in pioneer days, there's just no way. Give me a tall glass of Ice Tea with a lemon slice on the rim, a ceiling fan and central air any day! Plus there's the whole "bathroom issue" I am not a woman that will ever become accustom to using the great outdoors...I need a flushing WC!

I wonder sometimes who thought up these things? Who invented the toilet? I know that the first flushable toilet was in England (thank you!) but who actually thought it up? Or things like ice machines! What a wonderful invention! Paper clips...now that's an interesting design to twist around like that...weird stuff makes me ponder...like high heels! What satanic MALE thought those up!

I hope you're cool and comfortable where you are, may the AC and WC gods be with you this hot August...it'll cool off around here sometime in December...with any luck.

6 comments:

Roan said...

So what the heck is a WC?

Anonymous said...

Forgive B. Roan's rude sounding comment. But, what is a WC? That is HOT! I remember all too well.

Kyanite said...

It's a water closet of course.

Sorry, that you're suffering such extreme heat - just I don't know how I'd fair...

Keep cool as best you can.
Blue

Anonymous said...

It rained last night! It actually hit the ground and didn't evaporate into the air! Today it's a balmy 97!!!

A WC is a Water Closet. A Water Closet is a toliet.

Roan said...

Oh!

Roan said...

I'm waiting for a post. Have you been over to Rubbish? You should go and check out my Critter Corner post from Sunday. You might recognize the little fella.