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I’m getting tired of moving home. I’ve been moving home for pretty much nine months now. I’ve been moving home for so long that people are starting to believe we won’t ever move out. I’m especially getting tired of traipsing over to the storage shed, a roughly 200 mile round trip in what, today, was over 100-degree heat.
But still…it’s possible to enjoy the ride.
Here are some of the pluses. The traffic around Tracy caused by roadworks is more or less gone. Gasoline was 20c/gallon cheaper there than at home. A shared burger from a chain I’d never tried before, Nation’s Giant, tasted good and didn’t leave me feeling as though I were about to explode. Since they sold pie, too, I snuck a slice of pumpkin pie into the cooler; Don was most chuffed when I brought it out a few hours later. Pumpkin pie is hard to come by in August.
We stashed our stuff and did what construction was required. Several hours and half a gallon of water later, we went home. On the way home we followed Santa in a pick-up truck; he looked as though he had heat stroke, or a hangover. Then we had an encounter with a giant chicken.
I came up with an innovative solution to doing physical labor in ridiculous heat. I slipped one of the ice pads from the cooler under my baseball cap for a while, then let Don do the same. It was wonderful, until we realized that the pad had burst. Blue goo oozed out. We therefore had sticky, blue goo hair all the way home, and I had something to giggle about.
Luckily, Chicken Woman didn’t notice.
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6 Comments, Comment or Ping
Marina (86 comments.)
Oh dear…
Next time, soak a bandana in water, put that in the cooler to chill, then wear that.
Please tell me the goo came out and didn’t stain.
Aug 22nd, 2007
Linda R. Moore
One shower later all is fixed.
OTOH, having blue hair might’ve made for a nice Interesting Life post. :-P
You’ve seen me with purple hair, right?
Aug 22nd, 2007
beautyredefined
I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen the purple hair, Linda! You should share with us! :)
Heat sucks.
Aug 23rd, 2007
Linda R. Moore
I have it as an LJ-icon, usually for posts where I am showing some ‘tude. ;)
I will see whether I can find a larger scan someplace.
Aug 23rd, 2007
Griz
Wazzock! If you put anything wet on your head it takes away heat like a fridge as it evaporates. I wear an old straw hat when I m working and give it a dunk in the water tank every half hour or so. Keeps me from becoming like Detritus befor he met Cuddy.
Like the idea of the blue hair though LOL.
Aug 26th, 2007
Linda R. Moore
Obviously. But I needed what little water we had left with us for drinking, as I refuse to drink pop. Remember, by this time we’d been working for four hours in nearly 40-degree heat…I drank nearly a gallon of water that day.
Aug 26th, 2007
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