A new attitude
I make no secret of the fact that I HATE heat – I mean I really do not like to be hot. June – July and early August I get the kind of doldrums most people get in the dead of winter. I’ll bundle up and enjoy cold weather but heat just annoys me – humidity is another level of uncomfortable but thankfully that is not an issue in Montana.
But, Saturday, I was in the hardware store… I LOVE a good hardware and even the Ace here is a family hardware and the people that work there are related to ??? – anyway, same people have been working there since I’ve lived in this area – 5 years – and they know me and have no problem giving me a hard time! Typically, it is 3 or 4 trips for any one project by the time I go back for stuff I didn’t realize I’d need. So, Saturday I was whining about the heat and they laughed at me and scolded me also – telling me to enjoy it as it would be snowing in a few months. I said GREAT! – love snow! BUT, I kept thinking about it and yesterday morning as I was puttering in the early morning when it is wonderfully cool and yet warm enough to putter about in shorts and t-shirt and not much else … and I realized, that here where I live, even on the hottest day there are still nice cool nights and mornings and it is really only mid-afternoon to mid-evening when it is HOT and maybe, just maybe I could be a bit less miserable if I concentrated on enjoying the morning… so, a new attitude.
So…here I am, on the front porch – 6:30 a.m. and it is 59 and a soft morning breeze wafting… the early morning birds are quiet – and although full light, the sun is not above the mountains to the east so the sky is rosy. Karl is out enjoying the cool of the morning as well. Bob is in the woods hunting. And the other thing that I thought about – no matter how far past going to school I am, there is something about summer that feels like vacation time – and maybe exagerated since I work from home – but even for me, the days seem lazier and even if only in reminiscence – there is that kid-like enjoyment of “summer vacation”.
Except for a forecast respite this Thursday, there is currently no end in sight to 90 degree days. The meterologists seem to have a kind of ghoulish excitement about the possibility of breaking all kinds of records – daily temp, run of 90 degree days, run of 100 degree days a few places. I hope that I can keep up my variation of glass half full, i.e. day half cool frame of mind – and enjoy this time versus enduring it and wishing it away.
The hardware guys are right of course, in a few months we will have snow… and it was only a few months back – May 3rd that I took this photo of the snow storm that interrupted the logging – so, I’ll try to keep this in mind and also take a page from Karl and Bob’s book – they know how to relax in the heat!
