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Hot is bad...
Aug. 22nd, 2023 07:34 pm ...at least for my eyes. Already the skin arond them is red amd puffy. Can't keep my fingers off them- seems that on Saturday I will look like a heavily overweight vampire. Hopefully the minister will not bolt in fear!
I got up early even after having been used as early-shift taxi, had breakfast together with hubby then dressed for shopping beyond the border. But then I found that a bit of jigsaw puzzling might be nice- and promptly lost one hour of morning coolness. When I left at ten we were already up to 28 degrees. To say that shopping was a tedious affair is an understatement. We are not in the United States, were you will enter a shop and feel as if you´d be in a freezer. But no air conditioning at all- that´s Middle Europe. Welcome to sweltering heights! I was sweating, I was dehydrated hence all run down after a short time, and after the second shop I quit. No coffee shop, no take-out restaurant, I went to my car and drove back home. Eyes were not happy about all that sun and the sweat, and I went to bed for an hour and cooled down. Some more eye drops, cooling compresses then cold soup for lunch. We still have cucumbers aplenty- Dil sowed the wrong sort. She wanted small ones for preserving but got big ones for salad. And hubby and I are the ones who have to eat them. Well, worse things happen...
No knitting, no cosswords puzzles got done the rest of the day. I put on my sun glasses, put up the sunbed and caught up on sleep. Into the pool, have a cup of coffee and a cookie, repeat. Hubby did the same, and do you know what? That´s the privileged life of retired people! Not the catch your grandchild if you can situation we often have here. With young children not yet able to swim, the heat and the pool and the doors all open, a second set of eyes each would be very appreciated! And, of course, more stamina and faster legs...
I got up early even after having been used as early-shift taxi, had breakfast together with hubby then dressed for shopping beyond the border. But then I found that a bit of jigsaw puzzling might be nice- and promptly lost one hour of morning coolness. When I left at ten we were already up to 28 degrees. To say that shopping was a tedious affair is an understatement. We are not in the United States, were you will enter a shop and feel as if you´d be in a freezer. But no air conditioning at all- that´s Middle Europe. Welcome to sweltering heights! I was sweating, I was dehydrated hence all run down after a short time, and after the second shop I quit. No coffee shop, no take-out restaurant, I went to my car and drove back home. Eyes were not happy about all that sun and the sweat, and I went to bed for an hour and cooled down. Some more eye drops, cooling compresses then cold soup for lunch. We still have cucumbers aplenty- Dil sowed the wrong sort. She wanted small ones for preserving but got big ones for salad. And hubby and I are the ones who have to eat them. Well, worse things happen...
No knitting, no cosswords puzzles got done the rest of the day. I put on my sun glasses, put up the sunbed and caught up on sleep. Into the pool, have a cup of coffee and a cookie, repeat. Hubby did the same, and do you know what? That´s the privileged life of retired people! Not the catch your grandchild if you can situation we often have here. With young children not yet able to swim, the heat and the pool and the doors all open, a second set of eyes each would be very appreciated! And, of course, more stamina and faster legs...
