OMG, I hope "they" let us know as soon as the heatwave vaccine is "being offered." I'm worried because the temperature got up to 79 last week here in northern Maine.
I am a former Mainiac of 63 years. I left 1.5 years ago for WV and it is "almost Heaven". I was in southern Maine so you can guess why I left. The stupidity there was beyond words. Nothern Maine should be a separate state, a good state.
I’ve lived most of my life in the northeast but Covid changed everything and I won’t go back. To give myself major anxiety, and to help my daughter, I moved to Portland Oregon during Covid. As I was leaving to drive cross country, I felt like I was escaping a dangerous dystopian state. Probably because I was. There were signs lit up all down the highways “Take your shot Oregon! Get vaccinated!” I found myself reverting to obnoxious juvenile behavior and sticking my arm out the window and flipping the bird to Portland!!
Then Florida… where I was cursed out by an almost employer because I refused to get vaccinated or wear a mask.
Florida bores me. I recently thought about Maine because of their organic farms and beautiful sunsets, until I had a better understanding of their politics.
Idaho no bueno IMO, not because of the people, they are quite nice and friendly, and the state is actually quite beautiful (in summer), but the winters in Idaho are long, they are cold, gray and downright dismal. There can be no Sun for weeks, just gloomy gray skies.
They have that “PNW weather” minus all the rain of the West Coast. These winters in Idaho are not the sunny (and cold) winters of the Southwest U.S. I wanted to move there from SoCA, and visited in all seasons, but the winter lasts too long and is too gray for me.
My dad built his dream house in Montana and lasted two years… He could not handle the winters, pure white outs and he had a farm with all sorts of animals, it was just too much.
The weather is one of the things that keeps us behind enemy lines (Western Washington). Not too hot in the Summer (usually) and not too cold in the Winter (typically). Can be a bit soggy, but wear a baseball cap to keep the glasses dry and you're fine. Unfortunately the weather report is now, "tax-y with a high chance of tyranny followed by wokeness."
Idaho was a consideration and I decided against it but I don’t recall why… that was 4 years ago. I’ll have another look.
I haven’t watched Mary Bowden’s interview. When I was on X, which I no longer support, she was raging against RFK and I felt it was a bit premature to be in attack mode so I stopped listening.
California. I loved it . So sad. It’s such a beautiful state. Unfortunately, now, when I think of CA I have this memory of Newsom telling the public to double mask , even in their homes and even while eating. And there he was in public, caught on camera more than once with his mask on his chin.
Yes, Cali was a terrific place until about 20-25 years ago. And since Newscum went to the French laundry he’s done so many other things that are much more stupid - seriously - he’s outdone himself in the stupid space!
I don't believe she has. Suck a bad person. And she is an example of RCV ranked choice voting. It has ruined the state. Dems would never win an election without cheating.
I live in the eastern panhandle. So I cannot speak about where your friends want to go. Here in the panhandle. I find it is perfect amount of weather seasonal changes. I am near DC 1.5 hours away, it is where my son lives. But this small town is historical and has everything I need. Charles Town is a little piece of heaven. It is affordable also. I got twice the place for much less than I had in Kennebunk. It was never a thought. But WV in my experience has the friendliest and like minded conservative values that I desired. I have heard good things but I have also seen examples where they are paid less than say New England. But the cost of living and the living conditions are much better. I don't live in the cities here so I cannot confirm. But the news is not always bad like the blue states.
My young friends want to live in WV,but,teach grade school in Ohio where the pay is better,and,supposedly treat their teachers well. Certainly better then here in California…however,my young friends are veeeery blue,but,fabulous bluegrass musicians so it should balance out…
See my comment above. We love it here. My suggestion is to purchase in an established neighborhood too many new clustered developments being built in many communities. Some of the swamp is draining in this direction since covid and work from home crap. But the state and all is great in my opinion
Our kiddo's coach told them to bring and wear sunscreen (and lots of water and a hat) to the weekend's event. I appreciated the heads up on the weather because my weather checking these days = stepping outside morning of.
As for toxic vitamin D blocking sunscreen, no thanks. We'll maybe use a dose of homeopathic *Sol* (yes, sunshine, it's a real thing and it works) the night before, drop cell salts into the water bottles, and call it good.
How in the world did we all survive childhood without these parentified people in media and elsewhere telling us what to do?
My device won’t let me “like” any comments. I have to actually write it 🤷🏻♀️There are so many comments I would “like” but,I can not take the time to emoji ♥️ them all.
Yeah, actually there's nothing inherent to homeopathy that requires that. And if homeopathy is being used well, it is gentle withOUT aggravation.
So no, one should NOT feel WORSE first. Occasionally there are aggravations, which likely means the potency chosen was too high. Or the frequency of dosing too often, or unnecessary doses were given. But this should be the EXCEPTION, not an expectation.
The biggest risks of improper use are not matching remedy with symptoms well enough and continuing to use a poorly matched remedy thus causing more symptoms or different symptoms (a "proving"). Or, continuing use of a well-chosen remedy longer than necessary, and causing a proving.
"Oh, yeah?!!" Well not Houstonites!! I visited Houston once, and the humidity be like "Hay-lo bee-yutch!" I then I rent one of those scuba things so I can leave the airport and go to downtown and I see the people they have some gills.
Houston is miserably hot in the summer! Dallas is usually hotter but usually not quite as humid. At my son’s first soccer game about 27 years ago (Dallas area), it was 113 degrees in the shade. Was it pleasant? No. Did it last 3 days and then moderate? Oh, definitely not!! If it’s summer in Dallas, it’s hot. Really hot. For months.
Lived there 18 years. Moved to Alabama on a July 105 degree day. People here kept apologizing for the heat, but I didn’t break a sweat for a week since (unlike Houston) the humidity was actually lower than the temp. It is hot and humid here, tho.
No California DNA in native Texans. For most immigrants, the condition clears on its own after 3-5 years. Austin being the exception. Jenna MCarthy being the exception to the exception. [Sane David wants a chance at the keyboard.]
The weather forecasters on KDKA tv in Pittsburgh always tell viewers to take an umbrella on rainy days and a jacket on cool or windy days. I’m always grateful to know what to take with me lest I become confused. What would we do without these idiots?
During peak Covid insanity, a woman who works at my Mum's local corner shop told me that her brother in law told her that it staves off hayfever and other seasonal allergies, and when I asked her how he knew, it was because he worked in the mortuary at the local hospital and someone had instructed them to swab the noses of the dead, and they had noticed that the vaccinated had no mucosal response to pollen. That is the best possible explanation I can give to her words. Because I was reeling from the disclosure that someone somewhere in my county was swabbing noses of deal people and comparing the vaccinate dead and unvaccinated dead.
I picked "do nothing different". I will be outside hat free, sunscreen free today in East Texas shooing chickens off my porch in my bare feet. Then ima go inside, drink my filtered, flouride free water, and cut the tags off the patio furniture cushions. Feeling feisty.
Well,thank you. I have not seen that happen,for me. When I pick one,it opens up on my server to Jenna’s story,but, I can not see the poll or comment on that version. I have to go back to email and push “comment “ , then it opens to the stak,and,I CAN comment, but,still don’t see the results…🤷🏻♀️
Absolutely! Living on north Puget Sound, Washington our average temps in the summer are 67-69F - with fog most mornings. There's little need for A/C except an occasional 4 day stretch with highs 80-90F. And those days are good days to dine out!
Our power company sent out an advisory regarding heat. Use fans and just cool one room/area instead of A/C and cool the entire house. Close your curtains. I don't know what people would do without their advise.
The truth is the government here has axxed some good reliable 24/7 electricity and they're afraid they'll run out.
BTW There is no recommendation to not charge your car during high use hours.
PSE has Flex Events and they recommend charging your cell phones BEFORE the event starts, yet no mention of electric car charging. Seriously?!?
It was a tossup for me but went with the other one. But yes. I hate summer cooking. Grilling is man’s work and I refuse to do it and hubby won’t so he gets whatever.
So funny, Jenna! You gave me a great start to my day. It’s sweater weather here in MA mountains. Cold and raining for months now… everyone is cranky about it… and yes, it would be nice with dried up a bit, but it’s just what’s happening. I think people are upset because it doesn’t support the global warming narrative! lol 😂
Picture a really sad guy spending his morning at the computer craving attention.
...from a wire that enters the building... Kinda sad-funny/funny-sad. BUT! it's helping. The nurse says if I get outside and get some sunshine there'll be Jello later, whoopee-oolala.
News Flash of Week: "Jenna McCarthy read the meme about not pouring the thing into the crotch area and did not comment on the French translation[which happens to be a rhyming couplet]:
Ne pourez pas dans l'area de Oolala."
(My high-school French did not include this; had it, I feel certain I could have paid more attention.)
Thanks, David! I've been looking for the comment about the French translation on the cup. I almost missed it when I saw the pic. Then thought, typically perfect Jenna choice! 😂
This was literally a side-splitting, mascara-running, read. Thank you.
I voted "Following Government Orders hahaha" because following government orders is exactly the last thing I would consider, especially after the lockdowns, masks, and jabs, governments all around the world imposed on their citizens.
I'll take any excuse for not cooking for 3 days! Yes Texas is a whole other country. Hubby is from California and I brought him to Texas. He's never leaving, he says.
Don't give me that! Liar! You're like all the others: a crass cynic. (Googling "How to put in stent at home" right now.) Well, I hope you CHOKE on the LACK of posts!
Best regards,
David Nelson
(Glad to see you found the deeply buried "humor," Janet. I knew I was pushin boundaries here.)
Do you have a substack? I’m there if you do. Oh, by the way, Johnny depp is following me. Has his picture but Hahahaha, give me a break. Troll. I never opened it.
That's the problem with fame; you want people to leave you alone, but then they leave you alone when you don't want them too. As Beaver Cleaver phrased it so inimitably, and as I've found personally from trying to fill a bottomless substack, "It's zaustin'!"
(Yes, there is a substack, and with SEVEN subscribers I barely have enough time to live my own life. Yes, if you want to KILL me, by all means "subscribe," and drive me to an early grave. There is no "Paywall" because I cannot figure it out. I would do it in a heartbeat to drive the numbers down. The chief thing you will find on my substack is a pledge to bother you as little as compulsively possible--because I feel I owe it to Jenna to leave that here. As a feature. You know.)
That's ALL I need[1]--CELEBRITY subscribers. Now I'll have to get paparazzi barriers at the bunker. If subscribership zooms past ten, I'm going to have a stent put in.
(Jenna, if you DO go through with this, and I realize you sometimes say things for effect, I'm going to have to ask you to limit your attempts to be funny to a minimum--to keep the focus on my (fractional) wit. They ignore me to a man, but it's what I ask of all my sisters.)
[1] that is SARCASM: it's a way of saying "I really DON'T NEED celebrity subscribers" when the substack is becoming unmanageable with me having to check on it on an every other bi-six-weekly basis already.
Ex.Actly. It's like substack goin round tellin folks, "Hey, contact <so-and-so>; they'll give you some." and you're like "What? Given them WHAT? Finish the sentence!! I got nothing here!"
And to all you "zanes" out there having your little fun by trying to explode my substack into the TEENS of subscribers, you should KNOW that substack REVEALS your PRIVATE email to me when you do. Betcha didn't know that! So knock it off already! All you're going to get over THERE is a Big Pile of Nothing, with the occasional brain f*rt to see if I can still spell.
Not only that!! Substack has my credit card from my paid subscription and if I try and “subscribe “to someone,just to check them out,it charges my card for a year subscription!….unless,somehow I accidentally clicked it,but,I’m pretty sure I didn’t….and,it’s not easy to change…at least,for me..
I e seen that before and it always makes my day. My cats hypnotized me. No need for written missives. They would amble away with tail in the air using that hind end hole to make me follow them to the food shelf. I’m easily influenced by animals. Then would refuse the food because of……oh hell, they are just evil.
You can always tell the new cars from California because of all the warning stickers impeding one's ability to check their blind spot! California is so much smarter than the other states because it knows things the others evidently don't. "This vehicle contains chemicals KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm..."
For the record, I think the hanger warning is a joke, though one never quite knows. The drawing is delicious!
I live in New England and when you don’t like the weather, wait a minute and it’ll change. No one watches the weather forecasts here because here they report the weather, not forecast it. You can look outside the window and get a better idea of what the weather is doing. It’s rare that we use A/C.
Your climate is what the weather rock was made for. (You know, the rock on a string: if the rock is wet, it’s raining, if it’s moving, there’s a breeze, if it’s gone and only a string left, it’s a hurricane, etc.)
In SW Mass…. The weather didn’t change for 15 weeks. It poured rain every single weekend and twice during the week. It was fantastic for my crab apple and shrub transplants. I didn’t mind.
No No ... you miss the point, Based on what I know of "Jenna" (if that is her real name) from her articles and the "Cat Book" ... I can TOTALLY see her teaching that song to her kids. (but I alas, I really do not know her or her kids at all)
Not only did I teach this song to my kids, I asked my youngest (now 20) on our walk this morning if she remembered it--and she busted out ALL the lyrics! #ProudMomMoment
One of the Great Tragedies of this modern age: this fiction, this illusion, that real friendship can be synthesized via an ether. Let us hope, and pray (present company noted), that these never hinder us, even in the slightest, from seeking and making real friendships. (Our Jenna, her real-enough name, would want that for us.)
Oh, my gosh this could be my favorite. I was laughing so hard that my concerned dog had to come check on me to make sure that I was ok! It started with a little chuckle, then a laugh, and then I saw, "Day or Night Use Only" and that was it.
Jenna, thank you for this commentary on the weather hysterics! Here in the Pacific Northwest, when it creeps above 80 degrees people start complaining how hot it is. All of my growing-up years we could not wait for those few days in the middle of summer when we would actually hit 90+ degrees! Now, it gets above 75 degrees and people think the world is ending.
I kid you not, when we had a week of warmer-than-usual weather a couple of weeks ago, the local weather person was warning everyone that it was going to be in the mid-80s and to please stay out of the sun and drink lots of water. There was the list of places for people to go to get out of the heat (library, mall, movies, etc.) and also the PSA for "people experiencing homelessness", directing them to the county-provided "cooling sites". Explain something to me: How are "people experiencing homelessness" going to see the message from the local TV station? Do they now have TVs hooked up in their tents under the overpasses of I-5? Is this Idiocracy squared?
I was watching that broadcast with my mama and asked, "Since when is the mid-80s a heat wave?" She suggested that I change the channel since I was so irritated by it! 🤣
I hear they’re working on a vaccine for “heatwaves.” After the booster you’ll never have to experience another one.
OMG, I hope "they" let us know as soon as the heatwave vaccine is "being offered." I'm worried because the temperature got up to 79 last week here in northern Maine.
I am a former Mainiac of 63 years. I left 1.5 years ago for WV and it is "almost Heaven". I was in southern Maine so you can guess why I left. The stupidity there was beyond words. Nothern Maine should be a separate state, a good state.
I’m seeking to relocate.
I’ve lived most of my life in the northeast but Covid changed everything and I won’t go back. To give myself major anxiety, and to help my daughter, I moved to Portland Oregon during Covid. As I was leaving to drive cross country, I felt like I was escaping a dangerous dystopian state. Probably because I was. There were signs lit up all down the highways “Take your shot Oregon! Get vaccinated!” I found myself reverting to obnoxious juvenile behavior and sticking my arm out the window and flipping the bird to Portland!!
Then Florida… where I was cursed out by an almost employer because I refused to get vaccinated or wear a mask.
Florida bores me. I recently thought about Maine because of their organic farms and beautiful sunsets, until I had a better understanding of their politics.
Where next?
Did you happen to listen to the Mary Talley Bowden interview on Joe Rogan? She says Idaho is the place to go for medical freedom… I put it on my list!
Idaho no bueno IMO, not because of the people, they are quite nice and friendly, and the state is actually quite beautiful (in summer), but the winters in Idaho are long, they are cold, gray and downright dismal. There can be no Sun for weeks, just gloomy gray skies.
They have that “PNW weather” minus all the rain of the West Coast. These winters in Idaho are not the sunny (and cold) winters of the Southwest U.S. I wanted to move there from SoCA, and visited in all seasons, but the winter lasts too long and is too gray for me.
My dad built his dream house in Montana and lasted two years… He could not handle the winters, pure white outs and he had a farm with all sorts of animals, it was just too much.
The weather is one of the things that keeps us behind enemy lines (Western Washington). Not too hot in the Summer (usually) and not too cold in the Winter (typically). Can be a bit soggy, but wear a baseball cap to keep the glasses dry and you're fine. Unfortunately the weather report is now, "tax-y with a high chance of tyranny followed by wokeness."
Idaho was a consideration and I decided against it but I don’t recall why… that was 4 years ago. I’ll have another look.
I haven’t watched Mary Bowden’s interview. When I was on X, which I no longer support, she was raging against RFK and I felt it was a bit premature to be in attack mode so I stopped listening.
How do I recommend you? Is there a specific link?
Jenna would probably say Texas!! I’m in Cali and can say without a doubt Don’t come here / Crazyville!!!
California. I loved it . So sad. It’s such a beautiful state. Unfortunately, now, when I think of CA I have this memory of Newsom telling the public to double mask , even in their homes and even while eating. And there he was in public, caught on camera more than once with his mask on his chin.
Idiot.
Yes, Cali was a terrific place until about 20-25 years ago. And since Newscum went to the French laundry he’s done so many other things that are much more stupid - seriously - he’s outdone himself in the stupid space!
Southern Maine is very blue, but northern Maine is extremely red. Consider northern Maine.
Thank you! I’ll revisit it!
WV is my suggestion.
Yep. Northern Maine and southern Maine are two different worlds for sure.
I really moved from Maine to be near my grandson. But the liberalization of the state helped push me away. The RCV solidified my need to leave.
Did the govenor ever comply with the ruling “no boys in girls sports?” Can anyone believe that is even a necessary conversation??!
I don't believe she has. Suck a bad person. And she is an example of RCV ranked choice voting. It has ruined the state. Dems would never win an election without cheating.
Same with NY.
I have friends who want to move to WV near the Ohio border. How is the” living “ for school teachers in that area? Thank you!
I live in the eastern panhandle. So I cannot speak about where your friends want to go. Here in the panhandle. I find it is perfect amount of weather seasonal changes. I am near DC 1.5 hours away, it is where my son lives. But this small town is historical and has everything I need. Charles Town is a little piece of heaven. It is affordable also. I got twice the place for much less than I had in Kennebunk. It was never a thought. But WV in my experience has the friendliest and like minded conservative values that I desired. I have heard good things but I have also seen examples where they are paid less than say New England. But the cost of living and the living conditions are much better. I don't live in the cities here so I cannot confirm. But the news is not always bad like the blue states.
Thank you.
My young friends want to live in WV,but,teach grade school in Ohio where the pay is better,and,supposedly treat their teachers well. Certainly better then here in California…however,my young friends are veeeery blue,but,fabulous bluegrass musicians so it should balance out…
Thanks! I look into it!
I’ve been considering WV.
See my comment above. We love it here. My suggestion is to purchase in an established neighborhood too many new clustered developments being built in many communities. Some of the swamp is draining in this direction since covid and work from home crap. But the state and all is great in my opinion
I believe llaw555 meant that after the booster you would assume room temperature, whatever that temperature may be.
Wow! Here in Alabama, we’ve already hit the 90s. But we did have a long Spring and lots of rain now, so it’s tolerable.
saRNA (self amplifing RNA boosters) will be available this fall. After the injection, there will be no need to ever think again.
Exactly
What is a heat wave? I live in Florida. It’s always hot. The only waves are on the beach.
I live in Cabo and it’s hot half the year.
Ya… cuz you’ll be dead.
“You’ll never experience another heatwave” cause you’ll be dead from the “heatwave vaccine”! 😉😫
Our kiddo's coach told them to bring and wear sunscreen (and lots of water and a hat) to the weekend's event. I appreciated the heads up on the weather because my weather checking these days = stepping outside morning of.
As for toxic vitamin D blocking sunscreen, no thanks. We'll maybe use a dose of homeopathic *Sol* (yes, sunshine, it's a real thing and it works) the night before, drop cell salts into the water bottles, and call it good.
How in the world did we all survive childhood without these parentified people in media and elsewhere telling us what to do?
"parentified people in media"
(one of those 100% gifthingies)
My phone warned me it was an error to like this comment. Probably A I censorship or some such Google goofiness.
Weird. I can assure you that I am a real person. Goofle doesn't like us contrarians. lol.
“Goofle” - I love it and must steal it!!! 🤣
It has to be a bit unsettling to realize that Apple/Google are monitoring everything we do on our devices. 😠
REALLY!? Wow!
My device won’t let me “like” any comments. I have to actually write it 🤷🏻♀️There are so many comments I would “like” but,I can not take the time to emoji ♥️ them all.
Please tell me where I can get the homeopathic *Sol*.
Helios Pharmacy in the UK. They ship.
Are you familiar with homeopathy? It's not "home remedies" or supplements. It is an energetic medicine.
While it is very safe when used wisely and with knowledge, it *can* at times create problems when used without understanding.
Thank you! I will study up on it. It sounds fascinating!
Dana Ullman, Joette Calabrese, Will Falconer (a homeopathic vet) are great places to start.
Yes because in homeopathy the way the treatment works, you often can feel worse before you start to feel better.
Yeah, actually there's nothing inherent to homeopathy that requires that. And if homeopathy is being used well, it is gentle withOUT aggravation.
So no, one should NOT feel WORSE first. Occasionally there are aggravations, which likely means the potency chosen was too high. Or the frequency of dosing too often, or unnecessary doses were given. But this should be the EXCEPTION, not an expectation.
The biggest risks of improper use are not matching remedy with symptoms well enough and continuing to use a poorly matched remedy thus causing more symptoms or different symptoms (a "proving"). Or, continuing use of a well-chosen remedy longer than necessary, and causing a proving.
South Florida here. Y’all a bunch of wimps. :)
Funny piece!!
"Oh, yeah?!!" Well not Houstonites!! I visited Houston once, and the humidity be like "Hay-lo bee-yutch!" I then I rent one of those scuba things so I can leave the airport and go to downtown and I see the people they have some gills.
Houston is miserably hot in the summer! Dallas is usually hotter but usually not quite as humid. At my son’s first soccer game about 27 years ago (Dallas area), it was 113 degrees in the shade. Was it pleasant? No. Did it last 3 days and then moderate? Oh, definitely not!! If it’s summer in Dallas, it’s hot. Really hot. For months.
Lived there 18 years. Moved to Alabama on a July 105 degree day. People here kept apologizing for the heat, but I didn’t break a sweat for a week since (unlike Houston) the humidity was actually lower than the temp. It is hot and humid here, tho.
They probably swam there from California before the problem at Panama?
No California DNA in native Texans. For most immigrants, the condition clears on its own after 3-5 years. Austin being the exception. Jenna MCarthy being the exception to the exception. [Sane David wants a chance at the keyboard.]
Our phones, cars, and devices got smarter, but the people got dumber. We are definitely being dumbed down on purpose.
At least they're not telling us that the covid shots can help us cope better with the warmer weather.
...because they're too dumb to think of it, and it is perfect.
The weather forecasters on KDKA tv in Pittsburgh always tell viewers to take an umbrella on rainy days and a jacket on cool or windy days. I’m always grateful to know what to take with me lest I become confused. What would we do without these idiots?
During peak Covid insanity, a woman who works at my Mum's local corner shop told me that her brother in law told her that it staves off hayfever and other seasonal allergies, and when I asked her how he knew, it was because he worked in the mortuary at the local hospital and someone had instructed them to swab the noses of the dead, and they had noticed that the vaccinated had no mucosal response to pollen. That is the best possible explanation I can give to her words. Because I was reeling from the disclosure that someone somewhere in my county was swabbing noses of deal people and comparing the vaccinate dead and unvaccinated dead.
When they stop breathing they stop sneezing. Seems like a "cure" to me!
It’s coming soon however.
Yet…
I picked "do nothing different". I will be outside hat free, sunscreen free today in East Texas shooing chickens off my porch in my bare feet. Then ima go inside, drink my filtered, flouride free water, and cut the tags off the patio furniture cushions. Feeling feisty.
Best comment so far!!!
Good times ✨
I’m very disappointed that the poll option ‘not cooking for 3 days’ doesn’t have more votes. Where are my people?
I'M RIGHT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Seriously that was my pick and why I LOVE me a good heatwave!)
Right?!? Any excuse not to cook these days, I’m taking it.
How do you read the pol results? Thank you!
Well,thank you. I have not seen that happen,for me. When I pick one,it opens up on my server to Jenna’s story,but, I can not see the poll or comment on that version. I have to go back to email and push “comment “ , then it opens to the stak,and,I CAN comment, but,still don’t see the results…🤷🏻♀️
You just pick one and vote and the results will pop up
Absolutely! Living on north Puget Sound, Washington our average temps in the summer are 67-69F - with fog most mornings. There's little need for A/C except an occasional 4 day stretch with highs 80-90F. And those days are good days to dine out!
Our power company sent out an advisory regarding heat. Use fans and just cool one room/area instead of A/C and cool the entire house. Close your curtains. I don't know what people would do without their advise.
The truth is the government here has axxed some good reliable 24/7 electricity and they're afraid they'll run out.
BTW There is no recommendation to not charge your car during high use hours.
PSE has Flex Events and they recommend charging your cell phones BEFORE the event starts, yet no mention of electric car charging. Seriously?!?
It was a tossup for me but went with the other one. But yes. I hate summer cooking. Grilling is man’s work and I refuse to do it and hubby won’t so he gets whatever.
No matter what, I dislike cooking, and I always blame my reticence on the weather.
So funny, Jenna! You gave me a great start to my day. It’s sweater weather here in MA mountains. Cold and raining for months now… everyone is cranky about it… and yes, it would be nice with dried up a bit, but it’s just what’s happening. I think people are upset because it doesn’t support the global warming narrative! lol 😂
Miss McCarthy! Miss McCarthy! Claudia said "global warming"; she said "global warming" not "climate change!" She needs a timeout!
(To the executive producers of this substack: you may delete any of these comments. Please. It's a condition.)
David, the funny thing is that the median age in our area as well over 60 and so people are actually saying global warming on a regular basis!!
They're (the mind-controllers are) kicking theirselfs that it's not as easy to re-brainwash over earlier brainwashes as they assumed.
Good! I hope they hurt theirselfs.
😂🤣😂
Yo funny, David. 🤣
Picture a really sad guy spending his morning at the computer craving attention.
...from a wire that enters the building... Kinda sad-funny/funny-sad. BUT! it's helping. The nurse says if I get outside and get some sunshine there'll be Jello later, whoopee-oolala.
Your condition makes me raff.
Leftists "laff": WE RAFF! (Thanks Tim.)
Same in NY, sweater weather for weeks 🥶
And PA🙃but the Heat Wave is approaching 🌞🌞🌞
Can’t wait!! 😊
News Flash of Week: "Jenna McCarthy read the meme about not pouring the thing into the crotch area and did not comment on the French translation[which happens to be a rhyming couplet]:
Ne pourez pas dans l'area de Oolala."
(My high-school French did not include this; had it, I feel certain I could have paid more attention.)
Q. Are we getting dumber?
A. What do you mean?
HOW DID I MISS L'AREA DE OOLALA? I SPEAK FRENCH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD LOL I'M DEAD.
BECAUSE WE ARE DUMBER! AND, GOING OUT OF OUR WAY FOR EMPHASIS WITH THE SHIFT KEY!
(C'mon people!! Am I the only one who can hit a softball pitch? If I don't get some help I'm going to do myself a mischief. Probably.)
Thanks, David! I've been looking for the comment about the French translation on the cup. I almost missed it when I saw the pic. Then thought, typically perfect Jenna choice! 😂
"typically perfect Jenna choice!"
Typically perfect JJP choice! ;^)
Hopefully not in the area of the oolala.
😂🤣
♥️😎
This was literally a side-splitting, mascara-running, read. Thank you.
I voted "Following Government Orders hahaha" because following government orders is exactly the last thing I would consider, especially after the lockdowns, masks, and jabs, governments all around the world imposed on their citizens.
I'll take any excuse for not cooking for 3 days! Yes Texas is a whole other country. Hubby is from California and I brought him to Texas. He's never leaving, he says.
That's what everyone in Huntsville says. ;^) the devil made me say it cause he's on a roll.
Public-service announcement:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Huntsville+Unit/@30.7217818,-95.5491167,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x8647088e72f2c09f:0xb9b2352c901f9f36!8m2!3d30.7217818!4d-95.5465364!16zL20vMGJ2eHN0?hl=en-US&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDYxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
"As long as you can manage, try to arrange to be anyplace else. Thank you."
Just subscribed. I apologize.
Don't give me that! Liar! You're like all the others: a crass cynic. (Googling "How to put in stent at home" right now.) Well, I hope you CHOKE on the LACK of posts!
Best regards,
David Nelson
(Glad to see you found the deeply buried "humor," Janet. I knew I was pushin boundaries here.)
LOL. LOL. Hey, Johnny depp is following me. That must mean nothing.
I appreciate you. God, that sounds so liberal.
Those hotels nearby seem very reasonable though . 🤔
Do you have a substack? I’m there if you do. Oh, by the way, Johnny depp is following me. Has his picture but Hahahaha, give me a break. Troll. I never opened it.
That's the problem with fame; you want people to leave you alone, but then they leave you alone when you don't want them too. As Beaver Cleaver phrased it so inimitably, and as I've found personally from trying to fill a bottomless substack, "It's zaustin'!"
(Yes, there is a substack, and with SEVEN subscribers I barely have enough time to live my own life. Yes, if you want to KILL me, by all means "subscribe," and drive me to an early grave. There is no "Paywall" because I cannot figure it out. I would do it in a heartbeat to drive the numbers down. The chief thing you will find on my substack is a pledge to bother you as little as compulsively possible--because I feel I owe it to Jenna to leave that here. As a feature. You know.)
HOW DID I NOT KNOW YOU HAD A STACK? Just subscribed (and L'dOL at your five-subscriber milestone)!
Noooooooooooooo!!!
even the comic-book
AIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
That's ALL I need[1]--CELEBRITY subscribers. Now I'll have to get paparazzi barriers at the bunker. If subscribership zooms past ten, I'm going to have a stent put in.
(Jenna, if you DO go through with this, and I realize you sometimes say things for effect, I'm going to have to ask you to limit your attempts to be funny to a minimum--to keep the focus on my (fractional) wit. They ignore me to a man, but it's what I ask of all my sisters.)
[1] that is SARCASM: it's a way of saying "I really DON'T NEED celebrity subscribers" when the substack is becoming unmanageable with me having to check on it on an every other bi-six-weekly basis already.
When I subscribed to Jenna,I suddenly had a “Substack “…I don’t know how it got on my profile. I certainly didn’t set one up.
I’m famous enough,and don’t want any more “exposure “ People DIE from “exposure “!
Ex.Actly. It's like substack goin round tellin folks, "Hey, contact <so-and-so>; they'll give you some." and you're like "What? Given them WHAT? Finish the sentence!! I got nothing here!"
And to all you "zanes" out there having your little fun by trying to explode my substack into the TEENS of subscribers, you should KNOW that substack REVEALS your PRIVATE email to me when you do. Betcha didn't know that! So knock it off already! All you're going to get over THERE is a Big Pile of Nothing, with the occasional brain f*rt to see if I can still spell.
I apologize for this post.
Not only that!! Substack has my credit card from my paid subscription and if I try and “subscribe “to someone,just to check them out,it charges my card for a year subscription!….unless,somehow I accidentally clicked it,but,I’m pretty sure I didn’t….and,it’s not easy to change…at least,for me..
Jumping off a cliff comes to mind...with hope that the puddle is deep enough to swim in.
I am completely befuddled with wonderful laughter with the cat at the keyboard.
Thanks, Jenna.
I e seen that before and it always makes my day. My cats hypnotized me. No need for written missives. They would amble away with tail in the air using that hind end hole to make me follow them to the food shelf. I’m easily influenced by animals. Then would refuse the food because of……oh hell, they are just evil.
You can always tell the new cars from California because of all the warning stickers impeding one's ability to check their blind spot! California is so much smarter than the other states because it knows things the others evidently don't. "This vehicle contains chemicals KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm..."
For the record, I think the hanger warning is a joke, though one never quite knows. The drawing is delicious!
I live in New England and when you don’t like the weather, wait a minute and it’ll change. No one watches the weather forecasts here because here they report the weather, not forecast it. You can look outside the window and get a better idea of what the weather is doing. It’s rare that we use A/C.
Your climate is what the weather rock was made for. (You know, the rock on a string: if the rock is wet, it’s raining, if it’s moving, there’s a breeze, if it’s gone and only a string left, it’s a hurricane, etc.)
In SW Mass…. The weather didn’t change for 15 weeks. It poured rain every single weekend and twice during the week. It was fantastic for my crab apple and shrub transplants. I didn’t mind.
I Lived in NH for 15 years and my a/c ran from May through Sept.
"Dumb ways to Die"? Why am I not surprised?
Miss McCarthy! Miss McCarthy! I know why Pastor Mike is not surprised! It's because he's dumber, right!? (Someone help me...)
No No ... you miss the point, Based on what I know of "Jenna" (if that is her real name) from her articles and the "Cat Book" ... I can TOTALLY see her teaching that song to her kids. (but I alas, I really do not know her or her kids at all)
Not only did I teach this song to my kids, I asked my youngest (now 20) on our walk this morning if she remembered it--and she busted out ALL the lyrics! #ProudMomMoment
One of the Great Tragedies of this modern age: this fiction, this illusion, that real friendship can be synthesized via an ether. Let us hope, and pray (present company noted), that these never hinder us, even in the slightest, from seeking and making real friendships. (Our Jenna, her real-enough name, would want that for us.)
Thanks, friend.
You mean you’re NOT my real friend,David?🥲 You say the nicest things to me. I’m kinda sad,now…
Actually I am--I just have to say those things, Tonee, because--humility. BUT in a way, as I see it, sadness is how this all ends.
(Unless, of course, Ottumwa. The town has to start with 'O' the voices are telling me. Or 'Y'. 'O' or 'Y'.)
(I'm driving over to Sauk City today; does anybody want anything from THE ORIGINAL CULVERS?)
See?
I do.
(Goes to Read Jeff)
Oh, my gosh this could be my favorite. I was laughing so hard that my concerned dog had to come check on me to make sure that I was ok! It started with a little chuckle, then a laugh, and then I saw, "Day or Night Use Only" and that was it.
🤣💕😊
Jenna, thank you for this commentary on the weather hysterics! Here in the Pacific Northwest, when it creeps above 80 degrees people start complaining how hot it is. All of my growing-up years we could not wait for those few days in the middle of summer when we would actually hit 90+ degrees! Now, it gets above 75 degrees and people think the world is ending.
I kid you not, when we had a week of warmer-than-usual weather a couple of weeks ago, the local weather person was warning everyone that it was going to be in the mid-80s and to please stay out of the sun and drink lots of water. There was the list of places for people to go to get out of the heat (library, mall, movies, etc.) and also the PSA for "people experiencing homelessness", directing them to the county-provided "cooling sites". Explain something to me: How are "people experiencing homelessness" going to see the message from the local TV station? Do they now have TVs hooked up in their tents under the overpasses of I-5? Is this Idiocracy squared?
I was watching that broadcast with my mama and asked, "Since when is the mid-80s a heat wave?" She suggested that I change the channel since I was so irritated by it! 🤣
I can't even!
Mrs. "the Knife"