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Progress in spite of heat
I know I haven't been around much lately. I've been working in 100+
(F) degree heat and I'm too wiped out to do much other than sit with the TV and fall asleep. I hope this heat wave ends soon. Today the heat index will be at least 104 outside, and the laundromat I work in will be even hotter due to the heat of the dryers and higher humidity. There are two swamp coolers, but they don't help much when it is this hot and humid. I have to spend 7 hours in it today and I do not know how I will make it without ending up in the hospital. I've barely survived 3 hours on two other days which left me with chest pain. If I'm lucky today there won't be many customers and I will only have to spend 4 or 5 hours in it, with a break after the first 2 hours. I think I can do that. Cross your fingers for me, and buy some stock in Gatorade 'cause I'll be drinking plenty of it today no matter how bad it tastes. My one day off during the heat wave I spent cutting and sewing the last of the Pebbles and Bam Bam blocks for my practice quilt on my new SM. They have all turned out nicely and the next time I get to sew I will be adding the lime green sashing. Debra in VA |
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Yow! Working in that kind of heat should get you extra "hazardous
duty" pay! Hope your heat wave breaks soon. Your quilt sounds yummy! Lime green saching will be so cool! Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.- where the heat wave broke late last night |
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I hear ya on working in the heat. I'm a motel housekeeper. When I finished
today it was 96. -- Mary http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948 "Debra" wrote in message ... : I know I haven't been around much lately. I've been working in 100+ : (F) degree heat and I'm too wiped out to do much other than sit with : the TV and fall asleep. I hope this heat wave ends soon. Today the : heat index will be at least 104 outside, and the laundromat I work in : will be even hotter due to the heat of the dryers and higher humidity. : There are two swamp coolers, but they don't help much when it is this : hot and humid. I have to spend 7 hours in it today and I do not know : how I will make it without ending up in the hospital. I've barely : survived 3 hours on two other days which left me with chest pain. If : I'm lucky today there won't be many customers and I will only have to : spend 4 or 5 hours in it, with a break after the first 2 hours. I : think I can do that. Cross your fingers for me, and buy some stock in : Gatorade 'cause I'll be drinking plenty of it today no matter how bad : it tastes. : : My one day off during the heat wave I spent cutting and sewing the : last of the Pebbles and Bam Bam blocks for my practice quilt on my new : SM. They have all turned out nicely and the next time I get to sew I : will be adding the lime green sashing. : Debra in VA |
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On 27 Jul 2005 15:04:24 -0700, "Leslie & The Furbabies in MO."
wrote: Yow! Working in that kind of heat should get you extra "hazardous duty" pay! Hope your heat wave breaks soon. It should but it doesn't. It usually means we leave early if the work is fairly caught up or we are sick from the heat, so we lose pay. I lost about five hours of pay over three days this week, but I still consider it a small price to pay for getting out of the inferno. It rained for about five minutes around 8 pm last night and the temps dropped about ten degrees so I didn't lose as much time as I thought I would last night. It's cooler today, but since I'm off work I think I'll mow the yard. Your quilt sounds yummy! Lime green saching will be so cool! Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.- where the heat wave broke late last night The blocks turned out just darling so I'm happy with it so far. Debra in VA |
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On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:34:37 -0700, "maryd" wrote:
I hear ya on working in the heat. I'm a motel housekeeper. When I finished today it was 96. I was off today and I got some mowing done since it's cooler. I bet tomorrow will be easy because it's supposed to be in the 70's. Debra in VA |
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Debra wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:34:37 -0700, "maryd" wrote: I hear ya on working in the heat. I'm a motel housekeeper. When I finished today it was 96. I was off today and I got some mowing done since it's cooler. I bet tomorrow will be easy because it's supposed to be in the 70's. Debra in VA I finished the binding on Thimbleberries Sunrise, but now I can't work on anything else because I've got an extremely painful tendonitis in my sort-of-dominant wrist. Can't cut fabric. Can't do any hand work. Therefore, no progress, heat or not. With quilting not an option, I've been riding my bike, something like 168 miles in the last 8 days. At least that can actually be pleasant in the heat as long as you're not trying to climb steep hills and you carry PLENTY of fluids on the bike. Today the heat broke and the high was in the upper 70's -- I had gotten so used to the heat, I was riding my bike wearing a windbreaker. And I *needed* it. Seriously. -- the black rose Research Associate in the Field of Child Development and Human Relations http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts 2005 BOMs: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/blackrosequilts/my_photos -------- __o ----- -\. -------- __o --- ( )/ ( ) ---- -\. -------------------- ( )/ ( ) ----------------------------------------- |
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 01:34:33 GMT, the black rose
wrote: I finished the binding on Thimbleberries Sunrise, but now I can't work on anything else because I've got an extremely painful tendonitis in my sort-of-dominant wrist. Can't cut fabric. Can't do any hand work. Therefore, no progress, heat or not. With quilting not an option, I've been riding my bike, something like 168 miles in the last 8 days. At least that can actually be pleasant in the heat as long as you're not trying to climb steep hills and you carry PLENTY of fluids on the bike. That's a huge amount of bike riding. I couldn't have done that in the heat. When my carpal tunnel or tennis elbow act up I resort to cross stitch. I figured out how to stitch one handed with my non-dominant hand and how to wedge the hoop with my leg and arm so I don't have to actually hold it while stitching. As long as one hand works I can stitch, but both hands hurting brings nearly everything to a halt.. Today the heat broke and the high was in the upper 70's -- I had gotten so used to the heat, I was riding my bike wearing a windbreaker. And I *needed* it. Seriously. I'm wearing full length blue jeans instead of the capris and shorts. Lovely rainy weather here today. Everyone is so happy about the rain that most folks are outside. I've seen bike riders, walkers, and runners this morning. All greeting the rain as if it were a long lost friend. Debra in VA |
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Debra wrote:
With quilting not an option, I've been riding my bike, something like 168 miles in the last 8 days. At least that can actually be pleasant in the heat as long as you're not trying to climb steep hills and you carry PLENTY of fluids on the bike. That's a huge amount of bike riding. I couldn't have done that in the heat. I thrive on heat. If it's really hot, I do have to limit exertion so I don't blow up, and drinking plenty of fluids is especially important. I haven't ever ridden in temps over 100 F, but there have been a number of days in the 90's, and I was riding earlier this week when the *heat index* was something like 103. It's actually not heat but humidity that'll do you in on a bike; don't forget that bicycles have a built-in breeze factor. Air movement keeps you nice and cool. If it's so muggy that a 15 mph breeze can't cool you down, it's time to get off the road and into somewhere cool. When my carpal tunnel or tennis elbow act up I resort to cross stitch. I figured out how to stitch one handed with my non-dominant hand and how to wedge the hoop with my leg and arm so I don't have to actually hold it while stitching. As long as one hand works I can stitch, but both hands hurting brings nearly everything to a halt.. I'm not sure what's going on with my wrist. It's definitely not carpal tunnel. All the pain is on the outside of my wrist, the little finger side. That's ulnar nerve territory, I think, and sometimes the pain radiates down my little finger. Apparently those are the tendons that are used when you rotate the wrist (such as when you turn a doorknob), because any rotation hurts like blazes. My doc gave me a brace to immobilize it, but so far that hasn't helped. It's a little frustrating, because I can't even turn a doorknob. At least bike riding doesn't stress it, thank goodness. I do put some weight on that hand on the handlebar, but the wrist is in a neutral position so it doesn't hurt at all. I'm wearing full length blue jeans instead of the capris and shorts. Lovely rainy weather here today. Everyone is so happy about the rain that most folks are outside. I've seen bike riders, walkers, and runners this morning. All greeting the rain as if it were a long lost friend. I don't mind the rain when the weather is warm. I'm a total wimp about it when the weather is cold, though. :-D -- the black rose Research Associate in the Field of Child Development and Human Relations http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts 2005 BOMs: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/blackrosequilts/my_photos -------- __o ----- -\. -------- __o --- ( )/ ( ) ---- -\. -------------------- ( )/ ( ) ----------------------------------------- |
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On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:31:30 GMT, the black rose
wrote: I thrive on heat. If it's really hot, I do have to limit exertion so I don't blow up, and drinking plenty of fluids is especially important. I haven't ever ridden in temps over 100 F, but there have been a number of days in the 90's, and I was riding earlier this week when the *heat index* was something like 103. It's actually not heat but humidity that'll do you in on a bike; don't forget that bicycles have a built-in breeze factor. Air movement keeps you nice and cool. If it's so muggy that a 15 mph breeze can't cool you down, it's time to get off the road and into somewhere cool. Ever since I worked in a grocery store meat department I just don't tolerate heat very well. It is nearly always humid during a southern Virginia summer so when the temps pass the 90 degree mark I'm truly miserable. I'm not sure what's going on with my wrist. It's definitely not carpal tunnel. All the pain is on the outside of my wrist, the little finger side. That's ulnar nerve territory, I think, and sometimes the pain radiates down my little finger. Apparently those are the tendons that are used when you rotate the wrist (such as when you turn a doorknob), because any rotation hurts like blazes. My doc gave me a brace to immobilize it, but so far that hasn't helped. It's a little frustrating, because I can't even turn a doorknob. At least bike riding doesn't stress it, thank goodness. I do put some weight on that hand on the handlebar, but the wrist is in a neutral position so it doesn't hurt at all. Yikes! That sounds terrible. Definitely not carpal tunnel. You can't put weight on your wrist when you have that. I'm not sure how a brace could help your wrist. Even with a brace on you can usually rotate your wrist to some degree because your whole lower arm turns too. That would be very frustrating. I'm wearing full length blue jeans instead of the capris and shorts. Lovely rainy weather here today. Everyone is so happy about the rain that most folks are outside. I've seen bike riders, walkers, and runners this morning. All greeting the rain as if it were a long lost friend. I don't mind the rain when the weather is warm. I'm a total wimp about it when the weather is cold, though. :-D My town hadn't had any rain in over a month and a half, and little rain in the months before that, so we have drought conditions here. Ten miles away in any direction got rain, but not here. Some people's wells have even been drying up. All the lawns are brown, and the ground long ago cracked open from lack of moisture. I call it high humidity drought because for months it has seemed like we have been breathing more water than air from the 99.9 percent humidity. Many times the weather radar imaging showed rain, but nothing reached the ground. It's supposed to be raining now, but it's not. I've got some canna flowers and they are only a foot and a half tall this year instead of the 4+ feet they are supposed to be, my castor bean plants are only now reaching the two foot high mark when last year they were as tall as the gutters on the house and giving shade to our deck, and my tomato vine has only been able to produce one small tomato. Every plant in the yard has been badly stunted by lack of rain and I am not sure the perennials will come up again next year. I lost many of them a couple of years ago from drought and had to re-plant. I can always do it again. Debra in VA |
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In article ,
Debra wrote: My town hadn't had any rain in over a month and a half, and little rain in the months before that, so we have drought conditions here. We've been in a drought for about four years now. At this point, Lake Mead has lost over 40' of water, and that's a lot of water! Our couple of weeks of temps over 110? with no relief has turned the plants/lawns in most people's yards to an ugly brown. We keep hoping for rain.... -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education |
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