I’ve been acclimatized! It all started last winter. We had a very mild dry winter, no complaints here. That weather pattern carried on into spring, delivering a warmer, drier than normal spring, still very few complaints. I was able to get my garden planted earlier, did a bunch of dividing and transplanting plants. I even fertilized and spread weed killer on the yard. That’s when the rain officially stopped here. Finally we have had the summer from hell, literally. This has been the driest year on record and one of the hottest in history. Absolutely miserable. We’ve had to water, water and water constantly, driving to me consider getting a second job just to pay the water bill.
Finally the sweltering heat dropped down from the hundreds to a more normal realm of the eighties and low nineties. Yesterday I walked out of work to go to lunch and was greeted with eighty six degree temperatures and thought it felt very comfortable and mild. Can you believe that, eighty six degrees and I thought it felt very comfortable and even a little cool with the wind blowing? I had to look at the thermometer just to confirm the actual temperature. This morning we took the dogs on their morning walk at 4:30 and it was sixty five degrees, where was my jacket? This does not bode well for me when we revert back to our normal freezing winter.
I may have to start wintering in Florida.
A woman's view of hunting...with men 