it's gettin' hot in herre

personally i love sitting in stand still traffic on I-95 b/c 2 tractor trailers yet again decided to be bullys on the road as i drive from balmore to DC everyday with no AC.

for the past 2 months i drive to work with no shirt, then put on my white T in the garage, then after about a half hour in the office AC i pur on my dress shirt.

grillz, you beat me to the punch:)

100 plus here in MD. Yesterday for the first time my BGE peak rewards program kicked in and they cycled my a/c from 1 to 7, when I came home the main level was 81. IT eventually cooled back down to 75 come bed time.

you signed up for that. i was thinking aobut it but i thought the deal was (atleast as explained to me for balt city) - they come in and install at no charge a blocker on your AC unit so that it cant be lowered under something like 82 degrees for the summer months. during emergencies, you can lower your AC. for the 1st summer you get 100 bucks credit. for the 2nd summer you get 50 then the 3rd you get 25 bucks.

is this how it was explained to you?

ona side note BGE is telling me they need to come in and change my gas meter battery. i call and they say the technician will be in my area for these 2 certain days next month. (its baltimore, not some remote village but i digress). so i say ok, what time slots are available. she says oh no, you pick the day (from the 2 days in the next month) and then he will be there from 8-5. i tell her i cant take off a full day of work to wait on the BGE guy to change a battery. sighhhh

Awww is it too hot? This is typical VA weather. Drink water, eat fruit, and suck it up. When you do eat something with more substance, use a lot of salt. Pound that water.

It was 104 yesterday in Winchester, VA. Even at midnight last night when i was watering my pumpkin plants, it was 95....crazy.

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It was 104 yesterday in Winchester, VA. Even at midnight last night when i was watering my pumpkin plants, it was 95....crazy.

do you know whats crazy? watering your pumpkin plants at midnight! dang man, thats sounds like some fun. ive started to water my lil itty bitty backyard for the past few days. its mostly weeds and crab grass so it was nice when it wasnt raining and the weeds/grass wasnt growing so fast. now the weeds wont even sprout up and the grass is dying.

so i wait until sun drops, then go and water my lawn, the mosquitoes are vicious. im watering my tree and notice this big spider making his web which is cool, ive seen this guy before and he does good work and is a valuable allie against the sqeeters. but i notice this lil guy, same spider type as the big one, making a web lower than his and lil too close to the ground where one of my dogs could brush into his web, so i take my hose and spray about a foot underneath him just to knock his web foundation out but not kill him, well, just as i did that the big sprider comes flying right over my head inches away like he was on a zip line. i freak the funk out like a lil girl, spraying the hose on my head and clothes. i guess their webs were connected or the big spider had a foundation web line down there too.

about a month ago a huge huge fly buzzed right by my head, i watch him fly off and i swear to gosh he took a poop so big that i saw it splat on the ground like it was bird poop. never seen that before.

Soooo.

How's about that 3 feet of snow this past winter, eh?

do you know whats crazy? watering your pumpkin plants at midnight! dang man, thats sounds like some fun. ive started to water my lil itty bitty backyard for the past few days. its mostly weeds and crab grass so it was nice when it wasnt raining and the weeds/grass wasnt growing so fast. now the weeds wont even sprout up and the grass is dying.

so i wait until sun drops, then go and water my lawn, the mosquitoes are vicious. im watering my tree and notice this big spider making his web which is cool, ive seen this guy before and he does good work and is a valuable allie against the sqeeters. but i notice this lil guy, same spider type as the big one, making a web lower than his and lil too close to the ground where one of my dogs could brush into his web, so i take my hose and spray about a foot underneath him just to knock his web foundation out but not kill him, well, just as i did that the big sprider comes flying right over my head inches away like he was on a zip line. i freak the funk out like a lil girl, spraying the hose on my head and clothes. i guess their webs were connected or the big spider had a foundation web line down there too.

about a month ago a huge huge fly buzzed right by my head, i watch him fly off and i swear to gosh he took a poop so big that i saw it splat on the ground like it was bird poop. never seen that before.

The last couple nights i've watered them that late because it really is the only time where you can get some kind of relief from the heat....it's better than being out when it's daylight....sad but true.

I feel sorry for you folks. I know that many of you are not used to the heat and some of you may not be fully air conditioning prepared.

That said, what you Northeastern folks call a heat wave, we here call "June, July, August, and the beginning of September."