| Dealin' with the heat wave...
Posted: 8/18/2008 8:30:49 PM | I love the heat. Enjoy it while you can, this is Alberta after all!! It'll be the freak snow storms next month we will be moaning about!  | |
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| Dealin' with the heat wave...
Posted: 8/18/2008 8:40:27 PM | I love this weather... I work outside in coveralls... and well this is the only way for me to keep skinny.  | |
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| Dealin' with the heat wave...
Posted: 8/19/2008 6:42:22 AM | It's raining to day and I am sooooooooo happyl. Hopefully things will cool down a bit inside the plant! It's going to be a fantastic day for me!!!
:)
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Posted: 8/19/2008 7:23:51 AM | Reason, out of curiosity, what do you do? Electrical or Millwright? I can't see a welder being able to use tyvek coveralls and machinists have it too good with their tidy shops, so you must be one of the other 2.
Moving to Edmonton for a new job or company transfer? | |
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| Dealin' with the heat wave...
Posted: 8/19/2008 10:16:44 AM | My condo building has AC in the hallways, so after work when I get home, I leave all the windows closed but open the front door to steal some of the AC. After 7 or so I open up all the windows and shut the front door. Seems to help. Keep windows open all night, then in the morning before you leave for work, shut all the windows and blinds to keep the cool in. It does help.
I live by the LRT station so sleeping with windows open kind of sucks sometime. I cooled off this weekend at the Lake - was nice...might have to go back again next weekend.  | |
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| Dealin' with the heat wave...
Posted: 8/19/2008 4:23:11 PM | Nah I'm an insulator. Asbestos removal is part of our trade. I'm working on an old pulp machine that has been decommissioned. There are about a dozen or so to do. We wear tyveks for that, which is noooo fun at all!!!
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Luckily these days, all I'm doing is asbestos gaskets since I'm the only insulator here. Back in the day, working for the one contractor on site, it was asbestos removal with hoardings most of the time.
I'm just getting tired of working here, we got switched from four 10 hour days to five 8 hour days. So I'm thinking of quitting and working out of our union hall in Edmonton. | |
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| Dealin' with the heat wave...
Posted: 8/19/2008 7:25:28 PM | It has been over an hour now, the sky is dark and dim. Waiting for the big thunder storm to come, but it still haven't yet. Wonder if it will still happen tonight.
In Calgary, I find out whenever is shade it is wind. So at least I can get some cool moment outdoor, but staying inside is a problem. I let my apartment door open so that the cool air from the hallway can come in and it does help a lot.
I have no electric fan at home, maybe I should go get one, just in case this heat wave will continue until October. A long summer??? | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 12:21:27 AM | | I don't know about the long summer thought. Up here in E-town, I have already spotted leaves turning yellow and falling, not just in my own backyard but around the neighborhood. Not a good sign. | |
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| Dealin' with the heat wave...
Posted: 8/20/2008 7:38:49 AM | | Yeah...I have a feeling summer is nearing it's end. Maybe one week of good weather left, two max. Hoping we get a nice September though but waking up this morning did not look promising... anyone hear what winter is supposed to be like this year? | |
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| Dealin' with the heat wave...
Posted: 8/20/2008 8:15:06 AM | With the big gap between major rains, my grass has the appearance of being a brown carpet, rather than the rightful lush green it was a short 4 weeks ago!!
We set a new high temp record on Monday, but when I got home, the cool air I had trapped by closing windows and blinds was a welcome relief. I use one of those tower fans that ossilates to help pass the breeze from one side of the house to the other.
Watering the lawn in the late evening also helps to cool the air around the open window, so it is cooled when sucked in by the above mentioned fan. One of these years will have to invest some equity monies and install an A/C, well worth it if attached to the Central system.
My office has a small unit stuck in a window, more guys are now coming to visit just to reap the benefits of its efficiency, just glad we create our own power so there is not additional expense incurred in running it for the entire day. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 12:54:25 PM | Diva, I haven't seen any nests this year, but a bush trick for guessing is this.
Bee hives and Hornet nests. If the winter is going to be mid and lots of snow, then they build in trees and above the snowline the year before. If they build underground, or low exposed areas, it means the winter will have less snow, and apparently underground means a milder temp with no snow where low to the ground but not under means very cold with little to no snow. (Once you pass -25, it's too cold to snow)
Where are your beehives this year?
(That's part of my grampa's observations from a lifetime of trapping and logging in North Ontario) | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 3:52:54 PM | | I had a friend up in Fort Mac who had central air installed a couple years ago, I think it cost her five grand for the unit and install. Not TOOO bad if it's there when you need it. I know in Ontario. central air is pretty much a given. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 4:01:02 PM | Easyguy- thats really interesting.
In the spring I knocked down some persistent wasps, who tried to build their nest 3x in the rafters of my garden shed.
Yikes I don't like that prediction.
They finally settled on the neighbours bird house about 5 ft up! | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 4:51:35 PM | | Easyguy - no bee hives in this neck of the woods lol I'm in a condo building. Hardly any trees around. So hm I'll have to google the farmer's almanac and find out! | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 5:53:38 PM | We have a wasp nest under our back porch.
So - above ground, not too high.
Which could mean (according to certain hunter/trappers) a very cold winter with little snow.
That's too bad really. Snow is what makes the cold bearable. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 6:21:28 PM | I've been wondering about that myself. I have a few under the porch and one in the wall of the house under the siding about 2 feet up.
But I don't know if porches and siding would apply to the addage considering how few porches and sided houses there are out in the woods on a trapline.
Personally, I'd rather have more cold, less shovelling.
Or better yet, less cold, less shovelling. Maybe a green christmas? Is that too much to ask?
Two weeks of -30 to get good solid ice to fish on and then hover around -2 to -5 for the rest of the winter. AAAHHHHH.... Icefishing in a t-shirt, lawn chair and sunglasses. That would be bliss.
Either way, the winters here in Edmonton and area don't compare to North Ontario, so I am ahead of the game already! 2 winters here and I haven't had to break out the goosedown parka once! | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 6:49:45 PM |
Personally, I'd rather have more cold, less shovelling.
Or better yet, less cold, less shovelling.
Stop talking......... STOP TALKING NOW!!
We have valuable summer time left..... NO SNOW TALK! NOOOOOOOO!!!! NOT YET!
LOL! (kidding)
I happen to love the winter, but with summer going by as fast as it is, I'm hoping time slows down!
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Posted: 8/20/2008 10:13:20 PM | Yeah, I'd rather be somewhere warm year round myself, but the wife's physical conditions are lessened with the cooler and dryer summers and dry winter here. Sigh.
Guess there's gonna be no tropical retirement in the near future! | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 10:20:39 PM | | I dunno about anyone else, but I have mild arthritis in my hands and knees - an old injury that never healed properly and my hands have been beat up from playing the piano for 25 years. I can really feel when the weather changes. Usually a day or two before it rains my joints stiffen up. I like warm weather, about 19-25 at the max. But when the weather shifts, man, I feel it in my knees. Guess I'm getting old lol so easy guy - I totally understand where your wife is coming from. | |
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Posted: 8/21/2008 12:55:51 AM | | With her, it's MS. But stress brings out the more severe symptoms. That includes physical stress, like the humidy/ heat combinations. Humidex in Ontario was common to read +30, with humidex +38. So yeah, when we got here and heard the radio say it was +32 for the first time, we both bolted to read the thermometer. Without the humidity it felt like it was only 25. Yay Alberta! | |
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Posted: 8/21/2008 3:38:44 PM | ^^ Everyone says Aloe Vera, but I've never found it to work myself. For an itchy and sore sunburn, you can use Kaopectate lotion. It helps quite a bit (so I hear)
Good luck with that.
Wish these rain clouds would go away... going to my first live football game tonight! Eskies vs. Riders.... should be a gooder!
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| Dealin' with the heat wave...
Posted: 8/21/2008 4:11:46 PM | you can use Kaopectate lotion.
ummm........ ya, I meant "CALAMINE" lotion.
Can't stop............. LAUGHING!!!
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Posted: 8/21/2008 5:22:22 PM | | Young fellow at work was on a canoe trip over the weekend and burnt fairly crispy. He told me his family always uses After Sun and that it works great. He didn't know any more about what it is, just the name. | |
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