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Humidity around 650%
Spent six hours floating down a river on an air mattress, with a small dingy in tow for food and beverage storage.
It's the one thing I simply have to do each year to confirm the existence of summer (summer is a nebulous concept up here in the Great White North.)
Anyone else have that one thing they simply must do every summer?
As soon the weather allows it, people here just NEED to party in huge crowds. The streets turns like open night clubs. We have primed Jazz, fireworks, humour, music festivals and the likes. People just go out to party, laugh and dance in the streets. Serious, Montréal during the summer makes Rio look like an Amish community!
So, if there is one one thing I simply must do every summer is to...
...grow tomatoes.
The Stmpede is like a ten day Mardis Cras, only with cowboy hats and free flapjack breakfasts on every other corner downtown.
After the stamepede, we have to settle for shakespeare in the park, the buskers on 8th Avenue (the outdoor-walk shopping mall), and every pub and bar in town pushing zoning limits trying to increase the size of their patios.
Anything over 70°F is WAY too warm for me. My favorite weather is 65°F and raining, or 35°F and snowing.
So why, you may ask, do I live in the desert? Nev'mind. Not going there.
Just MAKE IT WINTER SOON. Please.
And yes, it was a holiday so I was good ;) I was only online after everyone was in bed or while my daughter had her naptime - and then only for two of the days I was away. But it was far more convenient than hiking to an internet cafe in 90+ degree weather!
Where I lived before on the Cote d'Azur ..you knew it was summer when you couldn't get to the beach anymore without a 5 hour traffic jam and the pyromaniacs started to play with matches in the hills ...
St Trop' isn't all it's cracked up to be ..
Just seen the Red Arrows fly over - nice!
Hot and sticky here in Prague, was about to take a trip down the Vltava on a boat but not made it yet.
Some how the beer on a string towed by the boat sounds like a good idea, specially at 0.15p a can and probably the best beer in the world!
One thing I have to do is wear a pair of shorts because soon it will be winter and will be -15C :(
I'll trade places with you in a minute! I live in glorious New England. Plenty of snow for you. It was about 87F and 75% humidity today. LOVE IT! Give it to me all year round.
Yup. I'll take Maine. Or Vermont. Or upstate NY. Or Nova Scotia. Or PEI. In return you may certainly have ALL of the Great Basin....
Lots of places I'd like better weather-wise than here. "Here" has some benefits not actually perceived until one actually LIVES here though. Even though being a woman here has some SERIOUS drawbacks....
Drink beer by a lake.
