RandyH000 3171 Posted May 31 lots of rain in Northern NY ----------COOL WHEATER , VERY PLEASANT -- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnJ 9025 Posted May 31 Hey @grasshopper we've got 81 according to my phone and right now it matches the thermometer outside. Dusk right now. It was warm and humid with everything being wet and the sunshine changing that to gas. Took my shirt off outside for the first time in probably 20 years, know I shocked the neighbors with my lack of a 40 yr old physique and a tan! Tomorrow the sit-ups and pushups start along with at least walking a mile or so. Can't stand it, thinking about that Alan Parsons song when he's talking about his ex or something "Your jeans are tight but your hide is slack" June the First Resolution: Make me able to cut the yard in a max 1.5 hrs again It's 1/4 acre of lawn, when I was a teen I could do it in an hour and there wasn't a rock-lot or more natural areas. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grasshopper 2358 Posted May 31 I got over having any kind of physique a loooooong time ago. The most I have ever weighed was 140lb. On a 6'2" frame there isn't much phys and a lot of eek. When I was on Kauai, I had people ask me how I stood in the surf to fish. I barely float 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnJ 9025 Posted May 31 Well....I'm only 5'9" and 155 solid as a rock for years. Then 20 years not working, yea painters are strong when doing commercial work for a while. Ladders, buckets, spray rigs, pressure washers. six stories up in new construction or just spraying all day long. Found an old book says about ten minutes a day remember she used to do these back in the 70s. Calisthenics. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grasshopper 2358 Posted May 31 I was a hoddie for a summer. Funny as. When I would get home from work, I couldn't get my arms to relax from the bulldog position. Mind you, I still only weighed 130lb. I have always been fit and active. Swam competitively when I was a kid. You can't tell by looking. I think about it... the games we used to play, you had to be in shape. Ditch 'em on bicycles, football, volleyball... Our "sled" was a car hood, from something big.... in the mid 60's everything was big... Get that puppy back up the hill.... 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnJ 9025 Posted May 31 Wow and I'm imagining Uncle Bills duece and a quarter a 1970 I think, that Buick was one of the biggest cars I've ever ridden in! And the oven y'all were talking about earlier? An always Turtle waxed `72 Great White Buffalo (Impala) that we fried an egg on one day when I was a kid... it slid right off but no one would eat it! 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grasshopper 2358 Posted May 31 I always thought a good marrying of things would be Go a gym... where people pay good $$ to work out I have lots of good hard exercise around here... Cutting, raking, fencing .... and I will gladly take $$ from people who want to work out. ...in the meanwhile, I do it and try to keep in shape 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BigStewMan 18214 Posted May 31 37 minutes ago, grasshopper said: I was a hoddie for a summer. Funny as. When I would get home from work, I couldn't get my arms to relax from the bulldog position. Mind you, I still only weighed 130lb. I have always been fit and active. Swam competitively when I was a kid. You can't tell by looking. I think about it... the games we used to play, you had to be in shape. Ditch 'em on bicycles, football, volleyball... Our "sled" was a car hood, from something big.... in the mid 60's everything was big... Get that puppy back up the hill.... I spent part of my youth living in the desert. Can’t believe that it would be well over 100 degrees and we’d be out playing baseball for hours. Our bodies were young enough to endure that. never wore sunscreen either ... i’ve got an olive complexion thanks to being predominantly Azorean, so in the sun, i get very dark. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnJ 9025 Posted May 31 I've got that Scottish clan then English heritage so I've always got burned to a crisp until ten years in FL had a decent tan for the first time ever. And sunscreen always. Know what you're talking about with the Mediterranean kind of complexion with all the Greeks and Italians I've known. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grasshopper 2358 Posted May 31 yeah... I've got Italian... I take a pretty good tan. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dave1290 7336 Posted May 31 Cool here today and I think I hit the yard w/a bit too much fertilizer. Hit it w/the crabgrass preventer/fert the first part of May then followed up w/the weed n feed a couple weeks later. Mowed Thursday and have to hit it again today. Then a trip around w/the lawn sweeper for the clippings with no where to put it. Trimming the bushes on both ends of the house next week so have to save the xtra garbage cans for that. How the heck can bushes grow 2 feet since last summer? Yea, quite a bit of rain but this is nuts! May as well get it started before the temps start going up again. Yea, it's true fat people sweat a lot. Sucks to be me! Time to git er done! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wuzzzer 1064 Posted June 1 It's going to be a hot summer in Minnesota. 90 on June 1st! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
richieb 6675 Posted June 1 ^^^^^ I think Minnesota heated up well before 6/1 —😡 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grasshopper 2358 Posted June 1 it's about 75` and wet. It was sunny and 90`+ at noon. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BigStewMan 18214 Posted June 2 5 hours ago, wuzzzer said: It's going to be a hot summer in Minnesota. 90 on June 1st! Decades ago, i was driving through Minnesota one August. Noticed smoke coming out of my a/c vents. alarmed till i realized it was due to the high humidity and the a/c on high. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wuzzzer 1064 Posted June 2 2 minutes ago, BigStewMan said: Decades ago, i was driving through Minnesota one August. Noticed smoke coming out of my a/c vents. alarmed till i realized it was due to the high humidity and the a/c on high. It does get a bit humid here in the summer. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RandyH000 3171 Posted June 2 4 minutes ago, BigStewMan said: Decades ago, i was driving through Minnesota one August. Noticed smoke coming out of my a/c vents. alarmed till i realized it was due to the high humidity and the a/c on high. First time I visited Georgia , The weather was 100 outside and it felt like 110 , it was like living in a sauna , but , happily , the ice cream they make was way better than the ice cream back East - 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grasshopper 2358 Posted June 2 So glad our high humidity is under 40% Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
7heavenlyplaces 199 Posted June 8 36 degrees and raining- thats 4 degrees from freezing folks- snow in the mountains. Got to cover the garden tonight! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wuzzzer 1064 Posted June 8 My wife's Jeep says it was 98 yesterday. Humidity at 43%. Felt like a steam bath. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
