(08-14-2023, 03:24 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(08-14-2023, 03:07 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: I have gotten to the point to where I go outside to do whatever chores/tasks at 7:00 or so.  Usually by 10:30 or 11:00 I'm done and ringing out my shirt from all of the sweat.  Take a shower, put on fresh clothes and maybe by 4:00 in the afternoon I'll go let the goats out and "babysit" them for a while (in the shade).

I am so tired of drinking bottled water and Gatorade all day.  That's just the way it is in Florida I guess.

Take care out there dude!! 

I know you do a lot outside and thought of you Saturday when we fired up the chainsaw and cut down a few trees in our yard. We got started later than I wanted but got 3 trees down, limbed and cut into logs with the limbs going to a burn pile. The rest will have to wait. I had to stop around 1pm. I started feeling nauseous and knew I was headed towards heat exhaustion or heat stroke if I didn't stop. 

Hubby finished things up while I came in and took a legit cold shower. Stayed in there a long time then laid down on the floor in front of a box fan to cool down even more. It took awhile. I got heat stroke in 2011 and haven't been able to tolerate heat like I could before that happened. It sucks. Especially this summer. Today I started feeling it come on me again while putting the window unit in. If I overheat it takes two or three days to recover, depending on how bad it was, so I know to stay inside. But inside was going to get ugly if I didn't get the AC in the window. Thankfully it all worked out fairly quickly so I didn't get sick. 

A storm is coming through and hopefully cools things off. This El Niño BS is ridiculous.

I don't cut down a whole lot of trees right now, mother nature takes care of that for us.  We have had a few storms that pushed some trees over.  A lot of the wood gets cut up into firewood rounds to get split.  The limbs and stumps go to the burn pile.  I have a pile that I need to light up tomorrow.  I still have a large Maple tree that took out a couple of smaller Oaks that I need to clean up.

I'll load up my cooler with some Gatorade, water, some "adult beverages" and plenty of ice to go "babysit" a fire tomorrow.  I figure by around noon it should be burned down enough that I can go grab an outdoor shower, put on some clean clothes and just relax a bit in the A/C.

Taking a shower outdoors when you are hot, sweaty and nasty is quite refreshing.

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