I'm wearing my winter clothes in July -- cords, fleecy jacket, socks

[grasswire]

It's just nuts to have this kind of weather in July.

Rain, rain, rain today. Temp in the low sixties.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. And here in the midwest it's a damn sauna.

Well into the 90s with a heat index of 112. You can't be outside for more than about 5 minutes before you're just drenched. Bleh.

[grasswire]

3. I'm making a pot of soup for supper.

Just as well. The stores stocked displays of school supplies the day after the Fourth of July. Way to kill the summer buzz!!

We had about six days of summer so far this year.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Soup -- GAAAAH! I can't stand the thought of eating something hot.

I've been guzzling iced tea all day, and have been subsisting mostly on fruit and ice cream. It's way too hot to cook.

[freshwest]

13. I've been having to have hot food all summer. Just a few salads at room temperature. Bummer.

Ice tea is a great solution, I like orange pekoe and make sun tea.

[The empressof all]

2. I know...I've been even thinking of starting a small fire in the wood stove.

Just to take the chill out

[freshwest]

14. I had to turn my central heat a few days this summer, same reason.

[Lucinda]

4. I need to move where you are. Sounds like my kind of weather!

:hi:

[grasswire]

6. no poisonous snakes here, either!

But we do have slugs.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. I've seen those slugs. They're the size of mice.

:scared:

[Lucinda]

11. I'll trade no poisonous snakes + cooler for slugs any day!

:) Unless they are big enough to pull a cart. Then I'd have to think about it a while...

[freshwest]

16. They will devastate the tulips, though. Beer in jar lets them die happily.

[u4ic]

5. Not hot enough

Twas supposed to be a warm weekend, but temps down from the forecast. High 70's right now, and under a severe thunderstorm watch. Almost every day we have one of those.

I've had to do the fleece thingE a couple of times this summer. Far too much rain, not enough sun and heat.

[Monique1]

8. It is hot here

and I am prepared. I go out once a week and just go out on the patio to take a couple of puffs than back inside.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

10. ah, you must be in the PNW

this has been, plain and simple, one of the worst summers I can remember.

Remember a few weeks ago, when everyone was saying, Summer never gets here until July 5th?

I am ready to write July off, and hope for a better August.

[freshwest]

17. When I was growing up down south, August was much worse than July. Because it was, enough already!

[freshwest]

12. Wearing the same things here. I don't mind,though. I mean really, look at those 100 degree spots!

[RebelOne]

15. Are you bragging or complaining? n/t

[grasswire]

18. neither

Just stating the situation. Very happy to be where I am. I've lived in L.A. and D.C., so I know the other extremes.

[Bluzmann57]

19. It's plain old fashioned hot here

I mean too hot to go outside for any length of time. Damn near too hot to drink beer. Almost.

[freshwest]

20. Too hot for ice cold beer? One of the daily food groups? Serious stuff there.

[oregonjen]

21. Quite happy in this weather, but my friends with SAD are having

a difficult time. They really need the sun, but this summer has been tough so far.

[freshwest]

22. Yeah, I've had to return to using my light board like I did in the winter. Ugh. It made a dramatic

Difference for me when I started it last winter. I tried to believe that a few sunny days and sunbreaks were going to do the trick, but they didn't keep up.

Also we're having a vitamin D problem up here for lack of sun. As they say, 'it's always something...'

:nopity:

Sniff, sniff! Feeling sorry for myself... Well, not really...

[femmocrat]

23. That sounds very comfortable. I can't stand the heat.

Cold and rainy would be bad for the garden, though.

[pink-o]

24. Today is gorgeous, but more like March everywhere else.

It's breezy, sunny and cool, but I'll take it! Last week was so foggy, drippy and miserable, just made you wanna turn over and pull the covers over your head. My bike has been in dry dock, cuz I hate cycling through mist as thick as jello. Also, working at SFO, it's made my life there hell as well. Anyone who wants to travel to/from the Bay Area, I recommend you fly into/outta Oakland or San Jose. SFO has THE WORST air traffic control delays in the west! And it gets old trying to explain it to folks from Chicago and Boston who (rightly) state they have waaaaay worse weather.

So, happy to finally see the sun. Let's hope it'll stick around for a little while longer!