It's Not The Heat...
Jul. 2nd, 2024 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenI was able to get up and out early enough this morning that I ran my intervals outside. I was still sopping wet when I got home, but it wasn't TOO bad. I greatly prefer that to treadmill running, where I'll get bored and feel like the effort is a lot higher, but then the treadmill is better than nothing when the weather is terrible. I just wasn't going to go out running last week or so while there was a heat advisory every day.
I saw a couple of neighbors, scored some tomatoes from one, and another mentioned she hadn't seen me out lately. It amuses me how much Fox and I are known as the "running people." One of the new neighbors apparently likes cats, because I saw three at their house - a brown tabby, an orange tabby, and a gray kitty. That greatly increased my average Kitties Per Mile. One neighbor I stopped to talk to mentioned his garden wasn't doing too great this year, which makes me feel a bit better about how unspectacular mine is. He says he probably ought to try rotating his plants - apparently he's been planting squash in the same place too long, LOL.
Today's been pretty good. I even moved some of the cat stuff around. They had an old "Kitty City" thing we set up a long time ago, and my two surviving boys don't really play on it anymore, so I dismantled it and moved some sturdier cat furniture into that spot, freeing a place in my office to put an armchair near the window. The light's so much better, it's a great spot to sit and flip through my art books.
June was just such a low energy month. The heat grinds me down, and the long days aggravate me. It's still hot obviously, but with the blackout curtains I'm doing a lot better than I have in previous years.
I saw a couple of neighbors, scored some tomatoes from one, and another mentioned she hadn't seen me out lately. It amuses me how much Fox and I are known as the "running people." One of the new neighbors apparently likes cats, because I saw three at their house - a brown tabby, an orange tabby, and a gray kitty. That greatly increased my average Kitties Per Mile. One neighbor I stopped to talk to mentioned his garden wasn't doing too great this year, which makes me feel a bit better about how unspectacular mine is. He says he probably ought to try rotating his plants - apparently he's been planting squash in the same place too long, LOL.
Today's been pretty good. I even moved some of the cat stuff around. They had an old "Kitty City" thing we set up a long time ago, and my two surviving boys don't really play on it anymore, so I dismantled it and moved some sturdier cat furniture into that spot, freeing a place in my office to put an armchair near the window. The light's so much better, it's a great spot to sit and flip through my art books.
June was just such a low energy month. The heat grinds me down, and the long days aggravate me. It's still hot obviously, but with the blackout curtains I'm doing a lot better than I have in previous years.
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Date: 2024-07-03 09:37 pm (UTC)Blackout curtains: I've been on the fence about them. I kinda low-key want some for our bedroom, particularly the door that leads outside - but I'm trying to work out how to attach something because I like to open the blinds during the day [they are built into the door]. My body insists upon pitch darkness to sleep now.
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Date: 2024-07-05 11:55 am (UTC)The blackout curtains we bought at Home Depot are quite long. We just bought curtain rods to put them up. The house already had blinds, but they are kind of cheap and crappy. At one point many years ago, one of the cats chewed all the blind cords, so now some of them can't even be lowered all the way. We didn't try putting curtains over the rec room sliding door because it faces north and there's almost never any sunlight or moonlight shining on that side.