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trehopr1
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This heat really tests my resolve ! Aug 8, 2021 10:18:43 GMT -8 via mobile boghaunter1 likes this

Post by trehopr1 on Aug 8, 2021 10:18:43 GMT -8

I am a collector and a person in general who "lives" for our summer season. It is my time to really get out and about enjoying a good field excursion, blue skies, the sounds of birds, the greenery of everything, and many a soft summer breeze.

However, there is a point in our summer here in the (Great lakes region) where the pleasantries of summer take a few steps back and oppressive "heat" sets in. Typically, late July it starts and may remain with us throughout most of August.

I had every intention of getting out to a field this weekend of Aug. 7-8 but, just stepping outside my doorway and hitting that wall of heat quickly extinguished any resolve I had to be in a field fulfilling my passion.

I even noticed two Papilio glaucus flying through my neighborhood just days ago "spurring" my desire to get out among them this weekend.

And yet my inner self just kept telling me I can't... I just can't...

I'm sure others have had this dilemma as well. Don't know exactly where I'm going with this short of saying it is frustrating !

exoticimports
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This heat really tests my resolve ! Aug 8, 2021 13:43:45 GMT -8 via mobile

Post by exoticimports on Aug 8, 2021 13:43:45 GMT -8

I’m out pretty much every day. When I return home my clothes are soaked with sweat (and permathrin) so I strip in the garage and hang the clothes before a shower. I wash them once a week. Yeah, they are pretty ripe by then.

Chuck

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This heat really tests my resolve ! Aug 9, 2021 12:25:48 GMT -8 Adam Cotton and trehopr1 like this

Post by boghaunter1 on Aug 9, 2021 12:25:48 GMT -8

I know exactly what you mean trehopr…. up here in NE Sask. we are, normally, used to cooler, wetter weather. This year has been awful... Hot, hot (30 to 37 C [86 t0 99 F]) drought conditions, with heavy forest fire smoke, from mid June to now (today is the coolest day we've had since then... temp. as I write this at 2:00 pm is refreshingly cool now at 17.3 C [= 63F]). Previously… every time I opened the door & the heat hit me, like the inside of a furnace, I, too, hesitated & said the heck with it. I never went on a single collecting trip beyond my yd. this yr. as forest fires threatened the remote back roads I usually frequent. Thank goodness I had my string of light traps to occupy my time! One other thing I hate to admit now is that I just can't take the heat like I did when I was younger... I used to spend entire long days out & about (glory days!) collecting regardless of how hot it got with no problems.... such is growing old. All you youngsters make the best of your youth & get out all you can while you're young...

John K.