Keeping it Cool

Now may be a great time to mention that I am in the group of technicallogically (I don't think that was a word before now since my autocorrect didn't even try to fix it) challenged individuals. I have basic skills and knowledge, but I really hate being outsmarted by the damn phone that I hold in my hand. The same phone that I control whether or not it even gets the power to operate. Yet the stupid thing is in charge of almost every aspect of my life. Ok, with that little rant over, please make note that I am not the person to ask the techy questions to. I am afraid that I am going to have to turn to my awesome tech friends to help me out more often than I would like. (Weirdly enough though, I can write some basic HtML code....)


Onward and upwards with today's subject. I actually wrote all this out last night using the Blogger app. It won't publish because the photo didn't load right. It won't sync to the website platform so I can fix the photo issue. Now it won't let me edit it at all in the app, so I am starting over. (Oh wait that was part of my tech issues.)


Hello summer! I know, I know it has officially been summer for weeks, but it is SUMMER in Oklahoma. July in Oklahoma is a fiery adventure at its finest. Let me help create the visual picture of July in the south for those of you not blessed with spending your summer vacations here.

This is the time of year that modesty flies right out the window. I try really hard to teach my girls to dress modestly and to have respect for their bodies. It is difficult to enforce this with the alternative being heat stroke. So please don't judge too harshly when all we are trying to do is live to tell the tales come fall.

This is the time of the year that you seek out the parking space with the most shade. How close it is to the doors is completely irrelevant, you are just hoping to keep the interior of your car a little bit cooler. I may be slightly regretting my choice of a solid black vehicle with the blacktop features that I picked out in December. (During below freezing temps, I might add. Oh the irony!) But this IS the reason that I kept repeating to the dealership that I did not want leather seats. Think 3rd degree burns on the back of bare legs!!! I would like to point out that black fabric seats still absorbs a lot of heat. But hey I still look sexy driving my beefed up minivan even though I may be slightly melted.

This is the time of year that we pay close attention to humidity levels. This has nothing to do with bad hair. But the higher the humidity and the higher the temps, the more the heat literally sucks the air out of your lungs when you step outside. Let's add the wind on top of the heat. I have been to Chicago. The windy city has nothing on our winds that come sweeping down the plains. The best way to describe this to an outsider, is a blast furnace. We do not get gentle lazy breezes. It is all or nothing.

Oklahoma is very much an outdoor state and we spend lots of our time outside. Hunting. Fishing. Gardening. Bike rides. Grilling. BBQ's. (yes there is a difference, but that is a discussion for a different day)

So my question to all of you, is how do you stay cool in the dog days of summer? Throw some creative ideas at me!!

~Michelle