In article >,
"Giusi" > wrote:

> "Dora" ha scritto nel messaggio
> > Cheryl wrote:
> >> "Dora" wrote in message
> >>> Giusi wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> This summer I haven't even used a fan yet. It's been into the 90s>>>>
> >>>> but I shut the shutters on the sunny side and with the thick walls it
> >>>> stays bearable at minimum.
> >>>
> >>> We've been having a summer in Maryland that I haven't seen in all my>>>
> >>> years in the US. I know you can relate to how humid it usually is>>>
> >>> here, Giusi, but it was in the seventies with low humidity until >>> the
> >>> last week of July, when it warmed up to the eighties. Yesterday it>>>
> >>> was in the seventies again. Today the humidity is still low and is>>>
> >>> 80 degrees at 4 p.m. US time. For the first time this summer, it's>>>
> >>> supposed to be in the nineties early next week then drop back into
> >>> the eighties. Unbelievable. I'll take every minute of it.
>
> >> I bet you're changing your tune today, Dora! LOL
> >>
> >> Cheryl, another Marylander
> >
> > Nope! I'm holed up inside in the a/c!! <BG>
>
> I talked to my kid in Bethesda yesterday and she told me she hadn't turned
> her AC on at all. She's a toughie, that one.
> We both say that this summer is unlike any previous summer we've known. In
> Italy we have had humidity and clouds and even rain during months when one
> usually sees none of those. This morning I have fog, which I usually see in
> October. (In the Alpine part of ITaly probably all of this doesn't apply)
> We sit around and wonder if our summer is merely late or if it just isn't
> coming this year, and whether the wine will be any good or not.
> I remember living near the Chesapeake and having a boat. An August Sunday
> might be spent there with the bonus of some crabbing on the pier and then
> eating said crabs on newspapers in the back garden. Dripping wet, hot and
> very happy.

The Seattle drought has finally broken. It started raining as we put
the lamb chops on the grill this evening. All I ask is that it stop
raining before Sunday morning, so I can get dry after I get out of Lake
Washington. (Sunday is the Seattle Danskin Triathlon, the biggest
estrogen-fueled race on the planet.)

We used to enjoy traveling on the Eastern Shore of MD on our way to NJ
when we lived in NC. We always made a point to stop at Harris Crab
House for some crustacean-whacking.

Cindy

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