Hot, Smoky Alaska Days Lead to Productivity!
The picture here was taken at midnight last night. It was raining, not even clear and still light out! Summer solstice here at our latitude means almost 19.5 hours of sunlight and even nighttime is only dusk. By 1:00 AM it was finally getting dark as a thunderstorm rolled over.
This weekend we had smoke from wildfires drifting in. It was also hot at 82 degrees yesterday. That is hot for us. It will be even hotter this week probably closer to 85. When there is smoke and you can't open the windows at night it is miserable. It can be over 90 degrees inside.
Since it was so smoky I staid inside much of the weekend since the smoke makes me cough and burns my eyes. The good news is that gave me some extra time to work on a new, loooong post for my second website which has been neglected for months now. I am doing my longest post yet on the topic of home treatments for bursitis. I have years of experience in this area and decided I might as well write it down.
It is great when you are very knowledgeable about a topic since you can easily combine what we are taught here with your own experience and produce a long, informative and hopefully high ranking post with ease. With just a little research you can create a post that may be more complete than most other resources on the web.
I am so excited to see if this post can rise to the top of the search engine results! Now that I am back to work for the week, my progress has slowed. I have not added anything to the post today. I am hoping to be able to get it finished this week...somehow.
So, even if we have negatives in life (smoke that chokes you when you walk outside) at least we can turn those into positive time to work on our websites!
As soon as I get it done I will be requesting comments on Site Comments but I may not get to the that for a while. We have to paint our upcoming vacant unit this weekend, get new carpet laid and get it ready to rent by July 3rd. Hopefully my husband's parents will be coming to stay with us and help us paint. It will probably be 85 degrees so the paint should dry fast.
Here is a pretty columbine I found recently.
Onward and Upward!
Jessica
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Good afternoon Jessica,
I dread the smell of smoke as it is so dry everywhere.
I checked on temperatures and your 85F is 29.4C
At the moment a big part of Europe is having an African heatwave.
As I live 8km away from the coast it is still ok with 86F
Some places inland and up North they have an unbelievable
44C which is 111.2F. That is not funny anymore.
I am grateful for my old farmhouse with 50 centimeter thick walls, my bedroom never gets warmer than 24C which is 75.2F
All the best with your long post.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Wow, Taetske, our apartment here can get over 90 degrees when it is hot so I would appreciate your thick farmhouse walls too! That sounds so comforting to know you can stay cool inside even in the summer.
I have seen 100 degrees F when I lived in the interior of Alaska. We are right on the coast here so these temperatures are very hot.
The smoke is much worse today so I may not be able to wear my contacts. I will take my glasses to work just in case. We all dread forest fire season. We are not at too much risk here in the city areas but when we lived in the remote part of the state it was a huge danger. Now it is just hard to breath and burns your eyes and throat.
Love the long days we get in northerly counties at this time of year but its a pity you cant enjoy the beautiful countryside because of smoke.
At least you got stuff done!😀
Yes, the smoke is worse today. Thanks!
I was in Ireland in May years ago and it was perfect weather the whole time. I never saw rain.
I wish it was 85 here WITHOUT the humidity. Lol
Glad to see the smokey days give you some productivity!
Hi, I was thinking about our conversation about humidity and looked to see what ours was. It occurred to me that we have much higher humidity here in the winter however. That makes the cold weather feel more cold since it just soaks right through everything. It really makes a difference. I grew up where it was dry so the cold literally didn't feel as cold. With 100% humidity when it is below freezing here on the coast...yucky. It is not too bad here in the summer though in that regard.
You're absolutely right that humidity makes the cold feel colder. Here it dips into the 30s, but with humidity, I freeze my BUTT off. But back home I didn't even really get cold in the 30s. LOL.
Like right now, it's 85, which is actually cooler than it has been, but the humidity is 80%. So it feels like 97, apparently. LOL It only gets into the mid-90s during the summer here, usually, when back home we'd easily hit 100 degrees. But 100 degrees dry is easier than 90 degrees wet any day. I can barely breathe. I sweat like you would not believe it.
What made me decide to stay here in the summer, is beyond me. LOL
But luckily, AC makes it better. ^_^; And no smoke is a lot healthier, so I guess I can't complain too much.
We finally got a portable air conditioner. My husband wanted one for years and years. I am glad we got it since we can't open the windows at night with the smoke!
I can't imagine being in your heat and humidity! At least when it is cold you can add more layers..there is only so much you can take off!
ROFL! That's EXACTLY what I say, EVERY YEAR! LOL!
I always tell people I can wear more clothes, but there's only so much I can take off in the summer!
That's why I prefer wonderful summers and cold winters to more moderate winters and miserable summers somewhere in the south.
Unless we want to get arrested anyway. LOL
I know, I don't know why I decided I loved Louisiana. Every single time summer starts rolling around, I wonder if I'd lost my mind.
That said, the summer I went to Kentucky... it's hot as crap there too. You wouldn't think Kentucky is humid. But it really really is. Not quite as bad as here, but it's definitely not pleasant. Hee.
BUT at least I'm not in Florida during the summer. It's actually WORSE there. I was there two years ago in the summer, and I was RELIEVED we came back to Louisiana in July. It was brutal. Humidity AND the sun, killer.
I'd love to visit Alaska.... in the summer. I'm going to just skip winters though. ^_^; I don't think I'd do well with all the darkness. When I get successful, I'm totally traveling to the places I haven't been to.
Well it all depends what part of Alaska you are in. Here we get 19.5 hours of the sun above the horizon. If you go above the Arctic Circle they have 24 hour sun.
In winter they have 24 hours with the sun below the horizon (though they still get twilight) and here we get 4 or 5 hours with the sun above the horizon in the middle of winter. In southeast Alaska it is less extreme and more like the Northern US.
The darkness wouldn't bother me at all if I didn't have a job. Then I could at least see the sun every day. Going to work in the dark and coming home (commuting) in the dark sucks though.
I don't know how you live down there!
LOL! Just like I'm not sure I could survive up there! But you know, I think we'd both do fine. Air Conditioners are a lifesaver here! Oy.
Australia is bigger than the US of A. Northen Australia is in the Tropics while Tasmania is not far from Antartica.
Our Snowy Mountains resorts are in full swing now.
In the middle of summer, February, We had a cyclone in the tropics that rained down one and a half meters of rain in 6 days. 300,000 cattle drowned.
While west of us in the Drought is killing thousands of sheep and cattle.
We had sun-scorched areas at nearly 50 degrees Celsius.
While even though it was summer down south in Tasmania they were having a freak snowstorm.
We live up on the Range 880 meters above sea level west of the most easterly point of Australia. Just south of the Gold Coast.
I love this picture! I have not seen frost in Australia before.
I am sure Australia it is like Alaska in that regard. People have preset notions of how it is and don't know just how big and diverse the climates are.
In one location where I grew up I saw both 60 F degrees below zero and 100 F degrees above. The record low for the state is 80 degrees below zero. You have a wide swath of temperatures that go higher. We have rainforest along the coast, tundra with no trees in the north, forests in between and many other climates and ecosystems like sand dunes, grass covered islands stretching for a thousand miles across the North Pacific in the Aleutian Chain and glaciers and volcanoes all over the place.
I love living in such an interesting place.
Here is a columbine flower I found this weekend.
February is our hot wet season. This year no rain or clouds so we had burning sun and drought.
Most large old pine trees around the country look like they are dead. Millions of fish in the dried up rivers have died.
A lot of our gardens have died.
Many of the town to our southwest have no water. Dams are empty. Water is trucked into the towns.
Cattle hay bales are being trucked thousands of miles across Australia 50 road train trucks at a time.
The first snow in the town in 30 years. The word went out that we had snow in town 2015.
I was filling up the 4WD and a car pulled up at the bowser and outjumped 4 teenagers.
They said it is freezing. I said where did they come from. They said they were surfing on the Gold Coast and heard it was snowing up here so they jumped into the car and drove up to see it in their shorts and Tshirts.
4-hour drive back to get some warm clothes.
Wow. That truly sounds horrible. I am so sorry. The U.S. gets "hundred year floods" all the time now as well as many other bad weather events like huge hurricanes.
I studied climate for many years and finished all my graduate degree courses in Marine and Coastal Climate Change. The changes happening are truly terrifying. My final research paper was about ocean acidification in the Bering Sea. Acidification here is occurring much faster than other parts of the world and is already affecting marine organisms. It is also going to be harmful for life in the sea around Antarctica sooner than most of the world since cold water holds more CO2. That is part of why we are seeing measurable affects here already. Crabs are migrating to shallower parts of the sea to get away from the CO2, sea birds are dying in droves probably due to lack of food as their prey species are affected by changes further down the food chain, shells of crustaceans and pteropods are starting to show affects and those acidification affects will harm their reproduction and other functions as well. Acidification has already affected oyster and other shellfish farms along the coast of Washington state and British Columbia.
All that may seem distant to many people but we could not have life as we know it without fish in the sea. It is terrifying that species like jellyfish will take over. We will see backwards evolution as the more basic organisms take over the planet because they can survive the harsh conditions.
55 years ago I used a small boat with 4 hp motor to go from my beach on the Gold Coast about 5 miles to another beach and found myself in the middle of hundreds of jellyfish. I did not think the small motor could get me out of them.
There are very strict laws about catching sea fish etc., nowadays.
We have more coastal waters than any other nation and the cleanest beaches except up north Australia which is copping a lot of rubbish coming from other countries.
I lived on the Gold Coast and was a lifeguard when I met my wife on my beach. Photos of my Surf lifesaving clubhouse when I joined in 1957 and now on Elephant Rock. The clubhouse, the restaurant is just being updated for its 100s birthday in November. My 50th year as a Life member.
I think that is different than bursitis. I have no idea if they can occur together though. Frozen shoulder looks like it results in stiffness and hardening, whereas bursitis causes the bursa to fill with fluid and create a large, soft, swollen balloon that is tender and sore.
Bursitis i would love to read it..i have bursitis in my shoulder .
Could you pm me the link.will read it after work tues .will leave comment after also
I will send you the link. I am at 3,000 words so far. I hope to have it done in the next few days. It seems to me (in my non-medical opinion) that chronic bursitis is not well understood or treated effectively because everyone assumes we have acute (short term) bursitis that will just go away. I have found some innovative products and methods to help it. Thanks. I am giving it a title for hip bursitis because that is one that I have and was a great keyword, but the solutions work for bursitis in any area.
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Great attitude! Good job showing us how to find something positive and constructive to work on...even while you are uncomfortable! Thanks for sharing....
Thanks. The smoke is worse today...I hope the wind shifts because it tickles just to breath now and burns my nose and eyes.
Understand....we get a lot a smoke from the forest fires here in Oregon!
Yes, we share a lot of fire fighters with Oregon too I think.