Yes, but hot is hot. I really admire your determination. I’d be heading back to the AC after 18 minutes . . . forget the other two hours!
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My optimal temp in the outdoosr is about 72° with no humidity. Over that, I seek shade and a breeze. I live in New England, and my favorite seasons are fall and winter.
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I dislike any extremes in weather and share the same seasons you do for my favorites. 15 years ago today I arrived in Japan for my 3rd stint of living there. I will NEVER forget waiting on the curb at Narita Airport in Tokyo for the hotel shuttle bus to pick me up and being dripping wet from the heat and humidity. The ONLY positive aspect of humidity for me is how healthy it is for my skin. Las Vegas on the other hand….
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The older I get, I realize that it’s the daylight hours of summer that I long for and not the heat. It’s far easier for me to get/stay warm than to get/stay cool.
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I go to a nurse pract as my primary and think she’s the best I’ve had.
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My better half lost his primary care last summer when the doctor decided to turn his business model into a concierge, monthly pay -to-belong practice. He waited a full year for a new provider, and she is a primary care nurse practitioner. He just saw her last week and really likes her. I hope she takes good care of him. I am fortunate to have a wonderful and competent physician who has steered me through some serious stuff over the last 14 years.
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I am thinking about @Lambchop . She has not posted since January. Has anyone been in touch with @Lambchop ? I hope she and her family are okay.
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VIVE LA FRANCE 
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Les citoyens ont vraiment formé leurs bataillons 
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2 posts were split to a new topic: Pearl Barley - how do you use it?
Our new mayor in Toronto got us newfangled trash cans this year, too. Lol.
Our provincial govt has paid McKinsey a lot of money for some pretty crappy advice.
I guess the NYC Trash news was from 2022? I missed it!
Here’s Toronto’s trash news
I bet the same consultants got paid for the advice to get rid of London’s bins as an anti-terrorism measure.
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Speaking of trash…we were forced about year ago to have our trash mandatorily picked up weekly by the city’s contracted trash removal provider. As responsible homeowners we have been taking our trash to the ‘landfill’, our recyclables to the recycling center and being mindful of the packaging of our purchases . Living on the wilderness interface we have been responsible about containing our trash so that the wildlife does not become habituated to our human waste.
After two recent failures of the required Kodiak ‘bear proof’ containers, we’re going to go back to managing how we dispose of our trash—taking it to the landfill our selves. $15+ a month for these cans isn’t worth it.
Second picture is what the bins look like at the parks during the ‘visitor season’ which coincides with the black bear ‘season’, May through October, most years.
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Our bear proof bins have survived all assaults so far.
They can knock them over but they haven’t succeeded in destroying them.
Do your bears have opposable thumbs?
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I had a bear run off into the woods with a full 30 gallon garbage can, it went over a wall and across the creek before it stopped. I saw my garbage can and it’s beady little eyes in the beam of my flashlight. One of the cans I have now is full of claw marks.
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It’s lamb chop, but had to tweak my user name! Didn’t mean to stay away so long either. Thanks for your thoughts. Everyone is ok, including my dad - in fact we’re here in Utah (with food!) in advance of a minor medical procedure. The timing of your post resonated with me, as a result of a terrifyingly close call we had on the road yesterday - went off the freeway at 75 mph into the center median to avoid a high speed collision. Thank god no guardrails, boulders, or highway equipment, and we are ok. Brand new tires probably didn’t hurt
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