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Whacky, which desert city do you live in? Just give me some, just between
us Arizonans clue, ta'? I'm in Tucson.
posted by
benzinha
on May 29, 2005 at 1:09 PM
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tely, yes, in the low 100s right now. I love the heat, except when driving.
I have no air conditioning and that makes for Abuelita oven basting temperatures and heavy sweating. And, I can still see that lovely pink dressed creature clickety, clacking down the street, umbrella overhead. Thanks for reading.
posted by
benzinha
on May 29, 2005 at 1:08 PM
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Wow! You are a busy lady!
Got my swamp cooler working too. Added you to favorites. I Need a grandma. thank you!
posted by
Whacky
on May 25, 2005 at 12:26 AM
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Oh thank you for the entry! I could see the woman in the pink dress so vividly in my mind's eye. Hmmm, doggie day care might not be bad, come to think of it, considering how much people spend on their pets. I've been hearing about the heat out there, whew. Here, we're barely into the 50's and it's hard to think that it's the end of May along the Hudson.
posted by
telynor
on May 24, 2005 at 12:58 PM
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MayB, you and my mom both don't trust me on roofs anymore.
I keep my age and condition in mind and move like an ancient and injured old crab up there, veeeeerrrrrryyyyyyy carefully.
Can't wait to go pick up my new excercise machine tomorrow. I am so excited about this. I want a real butt and useful legs and a flat tummy again, even at the age of 84 !!! Life is good.
posted by
benzinha
on May 22, 2005 at 11:19 PM
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tigerprincess, the dogs love the food that I can no longer eat. I baked up
my frozen bacon for them yesterday, no more bacon on my diet plan. I am reading up on the macro diet online and searching out recipes. I am switching to it because food holds no joy for me anymore and I need to eat better anyway.
Mostly a follower of this diet eats what a hunter/gatherer cave woman would accumulate in one day of hunting and gathering in the forests and deserts, etc....pretty rough stuff, but good for a primitive being....like me.
posted by
benzinha
on May 22, 2005 at 11:15 PM
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maj, when the family first returned to Arizona after leaving Honduras,
everyone's fingernails dried up and fell out, hair straightened, sinuses bled and Mom'sBrasilian jacaranda' furniture all twisted and cracked and had its veneers separate, etc. Our guitars twisted to un-use-ability. Glad the motorcyclist was okay.....ya don't wanna go down on our roads all summer and bake to a nice cripsy outside while waiting for the paramedics to get there. Secondary and tertiary hell.......
posted by
benzinha
on May 22, 2005 at 11:12 PM
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HolyHumidity Grail, it IS a dry heat here. I have fake sheep skin on my
steering wheel, so as not to bake my little piggies when first grabbing the wheel which has been cooking in the sun for hours. I also have fake sheep skin on my seats, so as to not bake my big piggie butt when sitting down in there after those same hours.
I leave the windows down so that it isn't an actual solar oven when I open the door to go somewhere. You can tell the poor people in town, we have our windows down while driving on the 120 degree Fahrenheit streets at high noon, more probably 137 degrees heat reflecting up from the boiling asphalt. Funny when it's a BMW and he tries to front that he does it out of machismo and not a low bank account.
posted by
benzinha
on May 22, 2005 at 11:08 PM
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Numinous, I hope to get to read some of your writing soon. I read my
readers, but am knee deep in angel prototypes right now. Thanks for reading and especially, thanks for commenting.
posted by
benzinha
on May 22, 2005 at 11:00 PM
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Temple, thanks for reading me again. My car's AC is out and shall stay that
way as no money exists to fix it. It means that I don't drive at high noon unless absolutely necessary. It means that the grandchildren tell me to quickly drive home on the Wednesdays that I pick them up after chess club. We also stop for ice cream on the way home and have some as we walk in the door also. Now I have the doggie pool for them to sit in. They get wet and I drive them the rest of the way home.....drying as we go and not overheating, just heating up.
I am so heat acclimated that I have to have a sweater in my car all summer, for entering buildings, which are over-cooled, Antartic Hell for me.
My African family took me to dinner today and I had a jacket to wear inside. Everything seems to have been decided, that Franck has TB only, that it is medicated and going away now, that De'De' shall graduate in Dec., Florence shall return to crazy Togo and rejoin her husband soon.
The house that she bought her children here, three years ago for $220 thousand, now is valued at $435, so she was out looking at more real estate today. I explained about buying high and slower future growth, etc., but she's all for it. Nothinbg in her life has ever given her such a return on an investment.
Yes, transvestites always do a better prep job on themselves before hitting the supermarket than the rest of us females. I have never looked as good as they do and have never recovered from that knowledge!!! So, I dressed up today. So did Florence, totally African and beautiful, turning heads. Great~!!
No, I feed the dogs regular dog food, I just hit Wendy's or Burger King when Makeda refuses to eat for a few days, it makes her eat again that day, that burger.... I don't think that it much matters what she eats now at Trail's End, so I just offer her anything, until she deigns to taste it.
All of this is making Autumn big butted, so she shall diet after Makeda dies and we shall both try to walk it off or run it off at the Dog Park, where i cannot go now, Makeda being too weak for that crowd.
Sure do wish I had an ocean here....Maybe after the next big quake 8^ )
posted by
benzinha
on May 22, 2005 at 10:59 PM
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Ha ha, I am picturing you on your exercize machine berating those fools. Take care on that roof
posted by
Azur
on May 22, 2005 at 10:50 PM
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ca88andra, drying clothes in front of the heater, I remember that in my
youth.......winter solutions. Now I have enough clothing for six women, so I never have to rush drying anything to wear. In today's heat, 109 degrees Fahrenheit, mas o menos, things dried as they got wet, which is a strange scientific phenomenon.
Sweat appears on your brow and dries immediately as it forms again. It is hot, but not that Killer Mid Summer 109, which feels very different. This is still a sweet 109.
The puppy, Baby, jumped into the little kids' pool each time she asked to go out and pee in the yard. She'd snorkel and circle and play for awhile and then run around the garden, getting almost dry from the running, and come back in to fall on the floor and sleep again, on the cool tiles. Makeda spent the day on the hard tiles, preferring the coolness to the comfort of the futon on her old bones. Autumn jumps in the pool sometimes, but sleeps on the furniture. Being rescued from despair in the desert wilds sets your choices and she chooses soft furniture over cool tiles.
Our winter was wet and I loved that rare moist happening. I await a similar rainy season in July, please.....
posted by
benzinha
on May 22, 2005 at 10:44 PM
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He'll make it.
posted by
majroj
on May 22, 2005 at 8:23 PM
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Ah, that desert aridity!
My grandparents moved from near Los Angeles and lived in the "high desert" (over 1000 feet above sea level) of the Mojave in California for about ten years. Their upright piano developed a sneer where the keyboard cover warped up a half inch or so. The chairs' joints had to be tightened. And that fine silty dust crept everywhere, so that it built up about as fast as and as well as the normal household dust, grinding the fibers out of the rugs and wearing down the floor...well, that was interesting. Just had a mototrcycle go down out front.
You heard it first here. Bye.
posted by
majroj
on May 22, 2005 at 6:36 PM
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Ah..
Your dogs are lucky to have such a nice mom that will take them out. I've never heard of the marco diet... have you found it to work???
posted by
tigerprincess
on May 22, 2005 at 2:30 PM
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I'm loving reading you again too! And I love the visual of you on your contraption, running at the politcians. Oprah is usually on when I'm at the gym, and I can't seem to get to mad at her....It's hot here too. Supposed to be 100 degrees today. Of course it's humid here too which makes it unbearable. I don't know why I stay in this god-forsaken place. Still, I can't imagine the kind of heat you have there. It's never been over 113 here, and that was only twice. They always say that the heat in Arizona is "a dry heat." Sure it is, and that makes a difference. But I'm sorry, no matter how dry it is, 120 degeres is just f*cking HOT!! Try to stay cool.
posted by
Holy_Grail
on May 22, 2005 at 1:46 PM
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Me too..
I loved your post, very funny. Thanks :)
posted by
Numinous
on May 22, 2005 at 11:58 AM
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I'm so miserable in hot weather...and of course my AC just broke.
Just in time for the first hot weather of the year. But coastal hot weather isn't desert hot weather, so I'll live. I'm just always hot anyway. I like snugly soft things and chilly weather. They'll have to replace the AC, can't fix it, but can't do it till next week.
You are so cute, I always just want to squeeze your face: I shall plunk it down in front of the t.v. and from now on shall run at the darned Senators as they irritate me on C-SPAN, and imagine that I'm going to run them over and squash them as I ski forward towards them. What a great visual! I will come and sit with doggies and laugh at Abuelita on the crazy machine. :)
There are good macrobiotic diets out there, it's just simple stuff....no sugar, no white flour, organic food, brown rice and grains, lots of veggies. But whatever you decide to do, give yourself one day every week, every month, whatever, for treats....and don't give up treats from time to time. I had to eat macrobiotically for months because of an illness or food allergy (we didn't know which at the time)....you feel so deprived, that at some point you just go off. Do you really feed the doggies burgers....just for them? How sweet are you. :) If you're not giving them regular dog food too, find a vitamin supplement for them (or if they won't eat anything else). They have the kind that they will lick off of your fingers.
I loved the image about the transvestite. They do appreciate all that is woman more than us women do sometimes. How colorful and fun it all sounds. There is a Mexican church, Catholic of course, up the street. Their weddings are so big and festive. Us white folk haven't figured out color yet! I love white....so...there ya go....too much to say about this post! I loved it, love reading you again. 
posted by
Temple
on May 22, 2005 at 3:23 AM
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What on earth sort of diet is that? Are there any benefits? Even though you must be sweltering there, I read your bits about the heat with envy. Winter is creeping in here, I'm drying clothes in front of the heater wishing summer would return.
posted by
Ca88andra
on May 22, 2005 at 2:41 AM
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