Jul 24, 2011 -- 5:39PM, DotNotInOz wrote:

When I hear that people are urged to go check to be sure elderly relatives and neighbors are okay during extreme heat, I often think of aged relatives I marveled at who'd smack on a straw hat or old-timey sunbonnet to go work in their vegetable garden in hot weather. I still have and sometimes wear a slat-style sunbonnet made by my maternal grandmother. It's a better, more comfortable sunshade than any of the sunhats I've got, too. Honestly, we've gotten to be such wussies unable to survive without air conditioning!

DOT

Wusses come in many forms.

At 71 with moderate COPD, for me choosing to go to a hotel was judicious. Even my repair man who owns the service recommended doing so--even suggested somewhere relatively inexpensive. We picked a Hilton not far from my home.

I'm no wuss. Nine ears ago, after my husband's death I traded two cars for my new BMW 325i--insisted they pick up one trade. Sometime later in a not so hot market I sold our big home, with an in-ground pool and purchased a ranch condo not too far from one daughter : picked the right realtor.

I dont do gardening. We had a lawn service and pool service when my husband became ill.
He kept the two-acre grounds and the pool manicured as long as he could.

This is a small hotel with a restaurant and room service but no real dining room. Meant to be a bit snarky about the ho-hum room service shrimp cocktail. Rooms here don't even have mini-bars !! We encounteredour first mini-bar in our two-room suite at the Chateau Frontenac in Paris in 1973...complete with splits of French champagne. (We didnt use it.)

Just messing around.........................My husband and I usually stayed on the concierge level in American hotels, ya know --free cocktails and snackies and free breakfast

 

 

Needless to say, Jane, someone such ss yourself with a chronic lung disease hardly qualifies as a wuss. You've good reason to seek habitation with a/c, since it's essential for you. 

My remark was meant more to honor how people used to deal with the heat because they hadn't any more comfortable option. 

We may be softies today what with all our luxuries, but it would take Bill Gates' riches and then some to get me to live without air conditioning. 

Yes, we seem to be back to Just Plain July hot instead of OhMYGOD it's so fricken HOT hot. Hubby is going to DC tomorrow on business--following the misery.  :)