I'm pitting summer

The BBQ Pit
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So, cactus…does your OP mean it’s significantly warmer in Lund than Stockholm? Because I’m tired of 3 out of every 4 midsommars being cold and rainy.

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Are you living in the same Missouri I’m living in? Three solid months of 100 degree heat with 99% humidity, broken only occasionally by thunderstorms that throw tree branches at your car and screw up your satellite reception?

I hate summer. I hate sweating, I hate the fact that the very air is so wet you have to gasp for breath, I hate the mosquitos and the wasps and the bees and the ticks and all those unidentified gooey bugs that splatter all over my car as I’m driving to work. I hate wearing shorts because I refuse to tan and it’s getting harder to find hiding places for the bodies of the people who make cracks about my white legs. Ever try digging a six-foot deep hole in the clayey Missouri ground in August?

Someday when I win the lottery, I’m going to move to a place where it’s 72 degrees year-round.

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Kill a kitten, or “kill a kitten”? The latter won’t help you cool down, you know. :wink:

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With gas prices projected at over $4, I’m pitting the summer, too.

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Oh, midsommarafton is always cold and rainy. It’s tradition.

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Well, nobody forced you to.
Lilyofthevalley: I don’t think Lund is significantly warmer than Stockholm. I’m just sensitive.

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You obviously haven’t met my ego.

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I also hate summer and try my best to stay out of the sun. My BF says I have a moon tan as I stay white as a ghost all year round.

I love spring and fall but they do not seem to exist anymore. Spring is just rain and cold and then one day it is 90 degrees and humid as fuck.

Then after it is all over it gets a little chilly one evening and boom fucking snow.

If I ever hit the lottery I am going to find a place that is 75 degrees and sunny with a light breeze and it stays that way all year round. I will even take some rain now and then but screw that super hot and freezing crap.

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What is summer like? The apple trees are still not flowering here.

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What is this summer of which you speak of?

*points to location

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Ah yes, that’s another thing I like about summer: women wearing tiny little clothes and showing lots of bare skin. :slight_smile:

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If’n I win the lottery, I’m buying three thousand acres of Missouri hills-n-trees! I think it’s the same Missouri, though your location field isn’t real specific about the particulars, ha. We have the flying pests you mentioned and tick inspection is just part of my day. I don’t have satellite or cable, so I don’t have to worry about my reception during storms. I just worry about having a tornado blow the house away with me in it. Oh, for digging, I recommend a heavy-duty grubbing hoe. I have one with a forged iron head that I’m using to break and till the sod for my garden. I could bury a horse out there.

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Wipe the drool off your chin and fasten your flies :stuck_out_tongue:

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Not yet, I still want to hear the explanation of the “little clothes” so I can imagine the typed words said in a slow, sultry voice.

Don’t judge me! :slight_smile:

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Getting creepy here!

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This Houstonian agrees. Although hot & humid Summers are not a new thing down here. We have some lovely days, late Autumn through early Spring. (This part of the state hasn’t had a hard freeze in years.) Compensation for the Summers? Not quite.

The city is heavily air conditioned. But my (rented) house gets a bit warm. Too warm for serious “doing stuff” during the day. (But work is icey cool.)

When I walk 2 blocks to the bus stop in the morning–before sunrise–my glasses fog up & sweat breaks out. But I agree that “it’s a dry heat” doesn’t make much sense, either. I’ve been to El Paso!

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(to OP) Your ideas intrigue me, and I wish to subscribe to your newspaper

I too hate summer, no, let me correct that, I HATE! summer, it’s too bloody hot most of the time, we have a major problem with biting insects (black flies, mosquitoes, deerflies, horseflies, stable flies, mooseflies and ticks), it’s almost impossible to spend any time outdoors without either;
Ben’s 100 100% DEET bug spray (nothing else works, our mosquitoes are the size of small Cessnas)
Becoming an inadvertent blood donor

to make matters worse, I must be part Vampire, as I burst into flames at the merest touch of summer sun, I can get sunburnt in under 20 minutes if unprotected, SPF 30+ is the only stuff that’ll even work on me

and any temperature over 85 degrees Farenheit should be illegal!

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Just got back from Houston yesterday. Hot and humid. But we had a nice time.

For where we live -

We are ready for summer.

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That’s pretty funny, considering that your username acronym is SUN! :smiley:

I also hate summer. Passionately. But hey, I’m in Florida, where the humidity could drown you on any given day, and a day of low humidity is deserving of a state holiday.

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I spent a good part of my youth in the Sacramento area and I used to love summer and hot weather. I think the fact that I was usually out of school during the time had something to do with it.

Since then, I’ve moved to a cooler clime, finished my education, and joined the workforce. Yet, although I now live in place where the number of days per year where the temperature reaches 100 degrees F or greater can be counted on one hand, summer is now probably my least favorite season. Cold weather doesn’t bother me in the slightest and I can take any blizzard, snowstorm, ice storm, or monsoon that mother nature throws at me. However, hot weather (i.e., anything over 90 degrees F) is a colossal annoyance. I can’t wait for the hot part of the year to pass so I can get to the cool temperatures of fall which is, in my opinion, the best season (and, where I live, the shortest in terms of weather that’s typical for the season).