What is your weather today?

[CZ93X62]

Well, the windows went shut at 11 A.M. today when the A/C (set at 82*) cycled on. 104* outside right now, and 45 minutes of garage fun was enough until evening. Got some 32/20 brass that Buckshot gifted me that is in need of a cleaning, and mixed 9mm/38/357 will be the next tumbling run. I planned to process some small/odd lots of rifle brass while the tumbler did its thing, but that can hold--it has waited a while already, a few more hours won't matter much.

A high of 112* is forecast for tomorrow, and 116* for Sunday. This is why I bid for dog watch or graveyard watch during the summers I was working.

 

[Rick]

A high of 112* is forecast for tomorrow, and 116* for Sunday. This is why I bid for dog watch or graveyard watch during the summers I was working.

Hhmmm . . . Whenever I ask someone why they still live CA I always get the same answer . . .

The weather is nice.

Al, buddy . . . 116 ain't nice. Hate to break is to ya but dang somebody had to.

 

[Brad]

We are forecast to have a few days next week with highs in the 50’s. That following Sunday with forecast for 100.
Gonna be a weird week

 

[CZ93X62]

No argument with THAT, Rick! It isn't the least darn bit "NICE"!

We stay for a variety of reasons, but "choice" is not among them. 2nd great grandfather loaded up the family after being paroled out of the 2nd Texas Cavalry in mid-1865 and started west from Johnson County, TX in an oxcart. Some months later they land in San Bernardino, and settle there. 3 more days in said cart could have earned them Laguna Beach, Newport, or Dana Point, but I digress. Perhaps roads west were still impassable, due to damage from the horrific 1862 floods here. Maybe he saw the place during a raid during the War, which were frequent throughout the Southwest. His wife was LDS, and may have known about the old Stake in San Bernardino. They had just married (1850) at the time the San Bernardino Stake was founded (1851), complete with Stockade to keep out native Americans (and probably Catholics). But I digress. We are still running this info down.

We have been here for 155 years. Roots are pretty deep, but we would like to finish our last years within the USA.

 

[462]

A high of 85 is scheduled for Sunday.

Woke up to thick fog, but it burned off in an hour, or so. It was replaced by an intermittent, light and low-level wafting fog. The afternoon has been bright and sunny, with a high of 73.

 

[Mitty38]

Well, the rain has stopped. Looks like 50-75 all week.
Good week for me to get some outside work done on my next 4 days off. But it is also squirrel season. Got 3 opening day, then had to go in to work. Think when I get off work, at 6am. Grab the "killsall" (my 20 gauge 870), head out to the woods, pull up a tree. Then shoot what squirrels I can get between naps.
Good cool 45 degree weather called for, for squirrel hunting and napping, in the morning.

 

[CZ93X62]

50-75 would be an unalloyed delight. 462's conditions would be nice as well.

 

[462]

Allen,
That 85 is 10 degrees above my comfort level.

Rick,
Of the many reasons why I'm still here, one is to be a vestige of the ways things were, and the way things ought to be. It's not easy, but someone has to do it.

 

[RicinYakima]

98* here on the high steppes today. You can see the sun when the wind blows in the correct direction. Fire above us is a 69,600 acres at 0900 this morning and 10% contained to the west towards timber. It will stop at the Yakima River to the east, the farm land north and south at about 125,000 acres. No roads, no hand crews and no interest in stopping it over the Murray Game Department Range. Who care if elk eat this winter?

 

[Rick H]

Woke it was 55* going to mid 70's, mostly cloudy but dry. Good day to mow the lawn.

 

[CZ93X62]

At 9:30 A.M. it is already 102*. By 3 P.M. we will melt like butter.

 

[Rick]

Ok now I feel guilty. I think I am supposed miss the weather but all attempts to do so have failed.

 

[Mitty38]

Nice and sunny. 75 right now. Went out squirrel hunting this morning. Straight from work. Got 2, forgot me cooler, started to warm up about 9. So had to get those cleaned and home, before they spoiled.

 

[RBHarter]

Cutting the roots is tough . I left behind 90 yr in the shadows of the Sierra's to get grafted back to the stump .

I don't know if I've mentioned the humidity and the tricks it plays on me remembering to drink enough water .
96° out my "office" window about 75 inside and based on the exterior window sweat about 80% humidity . Partly cloudy , calm winds .

 

[JWFilips]

Mid 70's today A hint of Fall in the air came in on a cold front last night.
Since I can work all day with the sun out when weather is like today...I decided to close up the pool.
Wife and rest of the family had a lot of use of it this summer because it was hot and sunny for most of the summer....very unusual here!
I even went in 3 or 4 times myself...That is how everyone judges the summers ( The old man never goes in the pool I'm only the caretaker)

 

[Brad]

Which one of you guys got pulled over...

 

[Walks]

Just dropped down in the last hour from 88 to 94degrees.
Humidity down to 48%,
Bright Strong Clear Sunshine.
Feels like an early June morning in the San Fernando Valley.
Think I'll sit outside in the Bright Sunshine, dry my sinuses right up.

 

[Rick]

Which one of you guys got pulled over...

Was he on his way to Portland?

 

[Ian]

Wasn't me...I drive an SUV.

 

[CZ93X62]

OK--today was ridiculous.

Marie absolutely MUST get out of the house at least once a week for outdoors recreation. Off we went about 11:00 A.M. toward the San Jacinto Wildlife Area through San Timoteo Canyon. It was already a toasty 111* as we left the house, and got to 113* as we entered the Area. No doves sighted at all, and the relative lack of sunflowers growing or gone to seed might account for that. There was quite a bit of water in the ponds and marshes, though--and the intermittent Mystic Lake (an oxbow of the San Jacinto River) was about half full. Few ducks were on scene, some pairs stay year-round but the early migrators (bluewing teal) haven't shown yet. There were some egrets hanging around, and some curlews feeding in a pond being water-filled at the area's north end. I'm guessing that due to the heat, critters didn't feel much like sloshing around. In that respect they had better sense than we did.

We spent a couple hours at the Area, and Marie had a little excitement when some sort of bee-looking fly decided to take shade and comfort in her ear canal. We flooded her ear with water, evicting the lodger--and it took refuge in her hair. Marie remained excited until I got ahold of the miscreant and crunched him in my fingers as a warning to other squatters considering similar options.

We took leave of SJWA about 2:30 and headed toward Perris to scrounge up some chow. YE GODS, it was hot--118* on the Jeep dashboard gauge. In Perris, the temp climbed to 121* parked in the shade with A/C on full blast while we ate. Me--"Honey, snap a picture of that and post it to Facebook. No one will believe this otherwise." She did, "Marie Paine" as subscriber name.

We chowed down, made a few stops and side trips while enroute home. The temp never dipped below 112*, and we arrived home about 4:45. Tomorrow isupposed to be a few degrees hotter. Can't wait.