Summers in the South are always warm yet often unpredictable. Some are blazing, burning, horribly hot. Others are mild, they pass into Fall with little fanfare. This one is what I call a slow summer; it seemed to ramp itself up out of nowhere and now, barely halfway through, it’s just hot. Constantly hot. 99 degrees with high humidity hot. I am officially over this season and ready for Autumn.
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Being as such, I give you a fun list of things to do in the sweltering heat of July and August:
- Sweat. A lot. Outside. Inside. Early in the morning. Late in the afternoon. Better drink plenty of water (before it evaporates).
- Stay inside all day pretending it’s snowing outside. Yankees have cabin fever. We develop something similar. It’s really not that bad out there but one gets so comfortable in the air-conditioning. Then, stepping outside, it feels so much worse than it really is. Or, maybe it is. ???
- Do the fun less than half an hour drive, midday, and get all wet down your back with a profuse sweat because the car AC can’t cope. It will be running ice-cold just in time for you to get out at your destination.
- Loss weight. This one is fun and positive. I always drop pounds in the Summer. You? I just don’t feel like eating anything – especially anything warmer than ice cream.
- Ponder how the pioneers and the old-timers did it without AC.
- Call the AC repairman and/or the electric company to find out why the unit crashed in the middle of the hottest day on record.
- Write a blog post complaining about how hot it is.
- Melt. Or catch on fire – your choice.
- Search weather.com for northern cities or mountain locations to see how much cooler they have it at the moment. They do it too; the jealousy usually turns around mid-January.
- Know it’s hot. Feel that it’s hot. Then, inexplicably, go out at 3 p.m. for a jog or a few fun hours with the lawn mower. This is a rite of passage, especially for men. A time to show “we still got it”. Whatever “it” is is a mystery. Amnesia, maybe?
- Have a mild heat stroke and forget to stop with ten things to do in the heat…
Fall, where are you?
PERRIN LOVETT 
I worked outside for most of my adult life. I swear the summers get hotter and hotter as I age. That fact may be due to the fact that I get fatter and fatter as I get older…….nah its just the weather. I remember the last summer we had that was like this, it was 2007. I was in Costa Rica the following year sweating my ass off and telling my rain-forest guide how his weather was mild compared to the hell that was Augusta. I clearly remember sitting in the jungle sauna, sipping fresh brewed coffee only a few feet from the plants the beans had been plucked from, watching his face wrinkle in disbelief when I told him how we had had a stretch of 30 days where the temps reached triple digits. People don’t understand just how miserable it is here in the summer. Iv’e been out west when they had a heat wave and the radio stations were warning people to stay inside for fear of death from the heat monster. My family and I were walking around as if it were cool. the tropics have the humidity and the west has the high temps, but here in Georgia, we have the both….
Lucky us.
And no sea breezes….
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This isn’t even the hottest summer. But, needing a quick post to keep things going while I beach it, I give you my definitive list of “fun” summer activities from last summer.