Too warm.

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The outdoors has only gotten down to 65.  Or last I looked.  Now already moving up?  To 66, with 68% humidity.  But inside it is staying 78/77, at 43% humidity.  No air movement.  The fan on the swamp cooler just isn't doing much.  Too hot to work, and I never made it upstairs.  Or, yet.  I am going to make a fatted coffee and go up, tinker on the machine if it is cool enough up there.  Or nap... sleep.

Oh, but I must get recycling and trash out.  Done.  Ugh.

Not only those, but I got a meal ready, filled the last of the water jugs, ran the r.o. machine to fill the carafe.  Then filled the reservoir.  Chicken and pork roast.  A bit much but... okay.  I would really like to finish dishes, but it is just too warm down here.  I think I'll go on upstairs, and tinker with the sewing machine.  But I best close up today.  It's going to get blazing hot.  I already have a heat headache.  It's... just going to get worse.  I remind you, this is cool for this time of year.  Nearing normal, but just now and I still think not quite.

My heat tolerance, for me, is nearly miraculous.  But... it is still limited.  I'm from Iowa, damnit!  Was raised in 100 F temps, with 90 to 100 percent humidity, when it was hot.  When it was cold, -40 F wasn't unusual.  I can still, mostly, handle the cold.  But this heat?  Well, I am getting back to it.  But with serious limits still.  Better than the last thirty years, just nothing like it was.

Oh, but the house really is pulling together.  Even just getting some of the dishes done, and getting the trash and recycling out.  It's adding up very nicely.  I am squeezing more and more things out of spaces, then compacting those, tossing what goes, sorting else.  Another week or two, if I can keep even this pace, and it really will be nice.  But if this heat continues, not sure that will be possible.  Will try.

On to closing up shop, and playing with the machine.  Later.