It makes me feel bitter each time it begins

[lizblackdog]

Arrgh. Fucking Spring. It's now verging on being too hot to wear my leather jacket to take the dogs to the park, which means I'll shortly have nowhere convenient to keep poo bags, toys, treats, spare leash, keys and tuggy. It's also getting too hot for Spike to exercise in comfort and safety during the day, which means either getting up very early or staying up very late to take him out to play ball. I was just working my sleep pattern back round to something a bit more convenient for interacting with the rest of society, too; but I think it's time to go back to being nocturnal.

It's also time to upload my bitching-about-warm-weather icons, and make my yearly request to my friends list - please, please, if you love me, or even like me just a little, don't make comments along the lines of "I don't know what you're complaining about! You don't know what heat is! Why, over here where I live the asphalt is boiling, the birds are laying ready-fried eggs and my cans of Coke explode if I don't keep them packed in dry ice!" I have friends in Florida, Australia, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, New Mexico, California and Texas - I KNOW all those places are hotter than it is here. That doesn't make it magically not too hot for me. It just makes me want to stab people.

In return, I'll try and keep the whining to a minimum. I'll even make a "bitching about the heat" filter if you want me to; but I'm not going to be able to keep completely silent. I hate it so fucking much.

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[topbit.livejournal.com]

You lose any plastic cards last weekend? I found a Virgin mobile Top-up and Nectar card in my car.

I'm such a sloppy bitch

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I hadn't noticed them being missing, but I do own one of each, so yeah, those must be mine. Sorry darling! Just leave them in your car and give 'em back next time you come down, OK?

xxxx

Re: I'm such a sloppy bitch

[topbit.livejournal.com]

no problem. Just remind me that I've got them :-)

[pgh-anarchist.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy with a nice in-between - about 70's - year round. The way you feel about heat is how I feel about cold. Summer does get too hot and humid and there are days I'll stay in b/c it's too hot, but I prefer to be outside (assuming one can breath). I hibernate in the winter, I hate it.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

That right there is a perfect demonstration of the wide variety of heat tolerance levels people can have. 70's is what I'd consider baking punishing heat... I haven't checked but I don't think it's anywhere near that warm here yet. I'm happiest when it's 40-50ish. Cold weather makes me (and Spike) perky and energetic.

[ulva.livejournal.com]

Bring on luvly 25 degrees and sun thank you. :P I don't want any rain other than during weekends too this coming summer.

Have you ever considered moving to Nuuk? It won't get scorching there during summer you know. On the other hand it will be day light 24/7 for a couple of months in summer and total darkness around Christmas.

But it won't get too hot. ;)

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I really don't want to move out of this country, but this year I have been doing some serious thinking about getting away from Bournemouth and going further North. The weather here gets hotter every bloody year, and the older I get the more I hate it.

The trouble is, my family are all here, and with the dogs and no car and no money, moving would a. be extremely difficult and expensive and b. mean that it would be very nearly impossible to ever visit them. And I decided that, much as I hate it, I'm not ready to make that sacrifice. I'm very close with my mother and I have this new niece that I already don't see often enough. So that idea got shelved. But it is a thing I'd like to do.

[ulva.livejournal.com]

Oh I was only joking about Nuuk! There's got to be easier ways to staying cool in summer than moving to lets say the Orkney Islands. At least if you stay inside. Outside is worse... haven't anyone come up with a jacket with built in cooling system yet?

Something like this?

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

(http://photobucket.com)

Re: Something like this?

[ulva.livejournal.com]

Ah Scorpius. Well of course. Then you could be kinky and cool all day. Perfect! :D

[myrystyr.livejournal.com]

Hey, I whine about the heat all the time... why do you think I called this icon Too Much Sunlight? ;)

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

it's supposed to be 68f here today. YAY!! of course, it's supposed to snow friday/saturday so it's a cruel joke, but i'll take what i can get.

i don't mind you bitching about the heat if you don't mind me bitching about the cold.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Not at all, darling! We are united in hating our weather... it doesn't really matter that it's opposite wether we hate. I just can't stand people telling me it's not really hot and I have nothing to bitch about. It feels uncomfortably close to being called a liar, you know?

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

i hear ya! i understand that different people like different temperatures. i'll be fully clothed with socks and a sweater and jef'll be hanging out in his undies. how does he do that???

[arisingprophet.livejournal.com]

Oh, you and me BOTH. It's not too bad here (yet), but it's getting that way and I fucking know it'll be torture for me and Dae and Viv when it actually does start to heat up. I can already see me only taking them out in the wee hours of the morning or the late hours at night.

I feel your pain and hatred of the heat. We can bitch together, haha.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Border Collies are not a very heat-tolerant breed. That was the initial reason I started feeding raw - I discovered that grain in the diet can make exercise-induced hyperthermia worse in BCs. It has made a bit of difference. But he'll always be a cold-weather dog, the whole breed was designed that way. Them and me both.

Squish with his short coat likes the spring, though. He was boucing around like a spring lamb today, bless him.

[arisingprophet.livejournal.com]

Have you ever considered shaving Spike during the summer?

I've considered it both summers I have had Daedra, but never really went through with it for various reasons. Mostly my own (some reason, I just can't see him as being short haired. I'd miss brushing him), as well as because I don't think he'd be calm enough to allow some other person shave off his fur, and might bite a groomer.

Since Daedra is mostly outside, at least these last two summers, to help him deal with the heat we bought him one of those little kiddie pools and regularly will add a bit of ice to it to keep it cool (and he likes to chase the ice and eat it, so yeah. >>). He loves the water, so that was his 'retreat' from the heat.

Though, I can tell that he prefers being inside when he does come in. :P Poor guy. Luckily, this summer, he'll be a mostly inside dog with Vivec and I.

I've been considering raw for years now, but never really got up the courage to really try it, or the real funds to be able to purchase meat often. Daedra's very - very - picky about what he eats, and usually, if I don't switch it up, he'll stop eating until I get him a new flavor. What do your dog prefer - like.. liver, beef, chicken, or what? I might give it ago, since now I have a stable job and will gradually begin to have the funds to be able to buy meat for 'em regularly.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

If Spike was one of those really hairy collies I might have considered shaving his belly. But he's not got that much coat - it's more his nuclear-powered metabolism that overheats him.

Spike used to be one of those not-eating dogs till I started feeding him meat. He's a lot keener on his food now. They like beef bones best and raw liver the least, and Spike won't touch raw fish (Squish will, but then Squish eats soap and cat shit if he can get it, he's not picky).

I definitely recommend it. I honestly believe it was the best pet care decision I have ever made. You can often get suitable dog meat very cheaply from butchers, hunters and pouiltry packing plants - they'll sell off chicken backs and necks and things very cheap, for example.

[ghost07.livejournal.com]

I'll shortly have nowhere convenient to keep poo bags, toys, treats, spare leash, keys and tuggy.



I may have a solution for this...If you take a square of cloth...cotton duck or canvaas is good, and you can use some other cloth to line it, too, if you wish...just poke holes in a circle around it... or use a grommet thing to make holes neater, and string a cord through it; you can hang it from your belt, or make a longer cord to sling over a shoulder like a backpack to store all the extras in...does that help?

As for me and weather, I can't handle the damp and cold. Every Spring, I suffer because there's so much rain. It cripples me right up.

[baranduyn.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying a word about your discomfort level. I am saying I've already switched my schedule so I can get my mother of a long walk done before mid-morning.

For the record: New England's heat and humidity isn't any nicer than Florida's. Florida's is just more persistent. I now live in North Carolina, where the humidity likes to vacation.

[purplewaxhand.livejournal.com]

*hugs* hopefully it won't be too bad for you this year.

[bites-the-sun.livejournal.com]

Wait .... wtf is the weather doing down south? It's still jumper, jacket and scarf weather up here and last week in the Lakes I nearly froze my backside off at several points.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

That's all North, though... but it's not really that hot here. It's just a combination of sunshine, romping with dogs and my freakishly low heat tolerance. But it's a miserable reminder of how very much I hate summer, and how I feel I was swizzed out of winter, and it makes me very grouchy.

[huntingdon.livejournal.com]

Go with the filter. You just know someone won't be able to resist it at some point.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

That's a damn good point. Maybe I will, at that.

[rozae.livejournal.com]

Tell 'em to bugger the hell off if they do.

[hellfire82.livejournal.com]

i'm gonna tell you what i think i said last year... after being there, i completely believe you that it's freaking hot, and you can whine all you want. it's hot here, too, with lots of humidity that just makes it worse, but it's just as hot there. (oh, and i think i mentioned that i always thought you were crazy until i experienced it for myself, and you're not. it IS hot there.)

also, hot weather just blows.

[danasaur.livejournal.com]

There's a water park here called Wet n' Wild, I'm not sure they still do, but I know they use to stay open year round. We have a lot of British tourests, and in the winter, THE ONLY people at Wet n' Wild are Brits. Floridians will walk by and say "MAN, how do those Brits DO IT? Swimming in this cold." while shivering in their thick winter jackets. I think this should clearly illustrate my thoughts on the matter of bitching about warm weather. From your perception, it probably feels just as hot to you over there as it does for me over here.

[santaman.livejournal.com]

Two words... global warming.. ;) *runs*

[rozae.livejournal.com]

Bitch about the temperature/weather all you want. You don't have to hide it from me. :D

[silverblaidd.livejournal.com]

Luff yew.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I'll believe it when I get to see the naked oil-wrestling pics :p

[revolution-grrl.livejournal.com]

Sister, you can always, always preach to me about the heat. I hates it. It's heinous. I need a bitching about the heat icon, methinks... Project for Friday.

[lemmingpie.livejournal.com]

I hear you, I had to ditch my jacket and now I have nowhere but an unreliable hoodie pocket for my leashes, phone, poop bags and you name it all else. Although, when I rushed out in my scrubs after work yesterday, they are quite nice for carrying all that...