We had FOUR whole days where I could open the windows. FOUR.
It went from 45 to 65-70 to now FUCK YOU HOT.
This is bullshit.
Also, with all the sun coming into my house I am able to see all the filth I have been wallowing in for six months.
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
only 128 days till October…
RepubAnon
Filth? Maybe Steve is watching Fox News to repay you for your sins against your Feline Overlord.
Luciamia
It’s called SPRING, John. Can’t remember a May where the temps didn’t yo-yo crazily.
Al Z.
Yep. A couple of weeks ago there was snow on the ground here in Upstate New York, now we’re hitting eighties. Global Warming has definitely spiked whatever I thought Spring was about growing up.
namekarB
Spring has been canceled due to shelter-in-place.
Every Winter I can’t wait for Summer and every Summer I can’t wait for Winter. Some folks are just hard to please. In eastern Oregon (Klamath Falls) I heard a neighbor say “I was going to plant a garden this Spring but I was away that week-end.”
West of the Rockies
Gonna be 99 in northern CA today. I’d take 70.
Major Major Major Major
Well it’s lovely out here. 70s, no crowding & decent mask penetration (80%?) in my part of town. Lots of restaurants and bars doing sidewalk service, fun vibe. Now we just need de blasio to close some streets for seating and walking…
HinTN
@Al Z.: Spring in Tennessee has been unlike any in recent memory. One long cool rainy beautiful season. I’m sure it’ll get hotter than the blue blazes soon enough, but this has been stunning for flowering trees and bushes
ETA: It’s mid-seventies and sunny this Memorial Day here at the beach in NC.
Emma from FL
It’s low-level tropical storm here in Miami, and it will continue on and off for a least a week. Or so it should be, but the afternoon forecast might be different. *shrug* It’s Florida.
Obvious Russian Troll
We had snow in Toronto in May, and I remember it was snowing in Michigan during at least one of the lockdown protests in the last eternity or so. Today at least is supposed to be in the 80s and humid here.
Jeffery
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I am looking forward to Fall.
cain
@West of the Rockies:
Its 60 degrees here in Portland metro area.. that is typically normal spring weather for us. i’m building a raised bed. :)
trollhattan
Similar–last week was springtime perfect and this week is “Fuck you, it’s now July, enjoy your 99, 104, 103, 103, 94.” Used to be mid-June or later before the A/C was first switched on.
germy
(Robert Benchley, 1936)
Lyrebird
It’s supposed to hit 90 here in mid-state NY tomorrow, less than 3 weeks since our last snow.
Steeplejack
@HinTN:
Somewhat the same here in NoVA. We had a lot of brisk, energizing autumn days the last month!
Right now it’s 73°, going up only a couple of more degrees today. Pretty much the same, a few degrees warmer, until the high hits 85° on Friday. Yee-haw. No sign of 90° so far this season. Excellent.
I am overdue for lunch. I got engrossed in something and am now ravenous. I think it’ll be deli pastrami on sourdough bread with hot mustard.
PsiFighter37
It’s in the mid-60s today in Manhattan. Beautiful day. I have not gone out that much, but at least here, it has been far more temperate of a spring than usual – we have only had a few days break 70 so far. This coming week will change that, but it has only gotten north of 80 once so far, which usually happens with a bit more regularity by this point.
Fleeting Expletive
Perfectly relatable piece in the Post about lockdown consisting of endless dirty dishes. Nothing like having to confront your own self every time you turn around. I’m certainly enjoying the view into newspeoples’ homes. The RoomRater twitter feed is hilarious. And, btw, there is a fundraising contest between John Heileman and Steve Schmidt to supply PPE to the Navaho Nation. There’s a tee shirt for each contender–not a beautiful tee shirt, but it will be an obscure keepsake. I’m team Heileman.
Kristine
Currently 73F here in far NE Illinois, but given the 80% RH it feels a little manky.
Scattered rain/t-storms through the week, followed by a dip in temps to the 60s by week’s end. We really don’t need any more rain here.
All that said, garden is blooming like a bloomy thing. Bees all over the crabapple blossoms, and the astilbes are already bushel-basket size. Irises getting ready to open. Bee balm’s pretty tall, and the native columbine has spread and those little plants are blooming, too.
Scuffletuffle
Lol, so glad I am not
anal retentiveGerman.Old Dan and Little Ann
I turned off our furnace 2 days ago. Now the AC could be turned on because it’s 84.
SFBayAreaGal
Going to get to 106 in the Sacramento area this week, my sister’s neck of the valley
In my neck of the bay area high 70s low 80s.
J R in WV
I’m moving stuff out of the guest bedroom. Since we’re hermits, it hasn’t actually been used as a guest bedroom in a long time, so it is a repository for stuff — photo albums, treadle Singer sewing maching, spinning wheel, old nursing rocker. This is the room below the roof damage done by the tree 3 weeks ago.
Ceiling will be coming down as there is wet insulation under the roof, and the sheet rock is pretty wet too, soft and crumbly. Will wait for the crew who will tear out the ceiling and insulation, put in an industrial dehumidifier to move the actual bed out, too heavy for an old put away wet hippy.
My great aunt Mae put together lots of photo albums, but 80% or more of the stuff in the albums are cards and programs from revivals and Sunday school. Can’t just pitch them, the 20% photos are great stuff, log school building church Aunt Mae first taught school in for example.
On a different topic, watching the cable news channels covering all the Memorial Day party activity, I’m very afraid Darwin is hard at work spreading a barely understood virus to people who seriously appear to think that because Trump has bullied governors into reopening the nation, the virus is actually no longer dangerous to them.
Sorry Charlie, you were wrong! So by end of June we’re going to be swamped with people who need non-extant ventilators, and who will die for lack of those medical tools. Hope those folks blame themselves for going out during a plague, but I know they won’t — they’ll blame everyone else for their own stupidity. And I’m afraid I will have a lot of trouble finding sympathy for those folks. And I will feel guilty about not being all that sad, because I do normally have a lot of empathy
We have dental appointments on Wednesday, over due for a maintenance appointment… but I’m really wary of keeping the appointment. If we do go, we will wear a mask until the moment they actually go into our mouth… Still may call to put it off — I flip back and forth, I know things are getting worse right now, not better, so far as number of vectors walking around endangering other people…
I hope everyone has a meaningful Memorial Day today, especially John G Cole, who just found out his housekeeping isn’t up to his standards!! ;-)
Our house is such a mess I have trouble making any headway, just wait, once remove and repair starts it will really get worse before it gets better. Sheet rock work is one of the messiest building phases you can imagine, that and sanding wood floors.
LightCastle
We had frost and snow just a week or so ago here in Montreal, a beautiful weekend and now are expecting a heat wave this week.
Because of course we are.
Princess Leia
@J R in WV: FWIW My dentist was havign a hard time getting the right PPE and set up to do things safely for patients and staff. Said a lot of others were opening up. We agreed that putting things off was wise- and I have an infected root, not a need for maintenance care. YMMV
Fleeting Expletive
@J R in WV: Is the industrial dehumidifier needed to dry out the mattress? Too bad about the tree damage that endangered all those memories and stuff. My spare room is the repository of a couple of generations. Well told tale, J R.
EmanG
I’ma go with cry me a river. Here in our sunbaked hellscape of Phoenix we’re looking at 110 Thurs-Friday. One more month and we’re out!!!
WhatsMyNym
@J R in WV: The dentist I go to wore PPE before, I assume they have enough in stock to reopen. It’s pretty common on the west coast for dentists and their dental staff to wear PPE covering their face.
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
I feel like I should point out that wallowing in filth is highly underrated–at least compared to cleaning.
debbie
@Major Major Major Major:
Spring in NYC with those crystal clear blue skies (even more so now) are the best!
debbie
@J R in WV:
Is there a local or regional history society in your area? If so, I’d bet they’d love the cards, etc. you’re mostly keeping out of obligation to your ancestors.
Sab
I don’t care about house cleanimg anywhere but the kitchen. Nobody will be coming in for a long while. If spouse or cats want it clean then they can do it.
WaterGirl
@J R in WV: When my dentist’s office called me last week to reschedule me from April, I asked for something the first week in July.
I figure out we’ll either know that’s safe by then, or we will know that dental cleanings are increasing the spread of COVID. If I were you, would reschedule for a bit down the road.
With this virus, we just don’t know. So for what it’s worth, I’m waiting until more information comes in.
J R in WV
@Fleeting Expletive:
Nope, none of the “stuff” in the room was wet, just the interior of the roof structure is wet. The leaks below the ceiling were in places we could put trays and pots to catch the water. The hickory floor got damp a little, but should be fine just with the AC dehumidification effect. They will need to carry out the bed, it’s a smallish room and they won’t ahve room to work without getting the bed out.
The remediation folks will take down the sheet rock ceiling, pull out the insulation, then set up an industrial dehumidifier and a heater/fan to dry out the roof structure, the rafters and plywood deck, and then I think they plan to spray some sort of disinfectant to help prevent future fungal growth.
Once it’s all dry, new insulation and sheet rock installed, then painting the whole room. I really hope we don’t find unexpected other damage when it’s opened up~!~
ETA, if the bed was wet, it would go to the landfill, to be replaced. You can’t really dry a mattress, which is why they usually get waterproof mattress covers.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
My dentist rescheduled me from early April to late June.
Kristine
@J R in WV: I have a dental appt tomorrow morning. They want me to come in a half hour early for prep, so I have a feeling there will be more than just masks.
Steeplejack
@J R in WV:
LOL. On the HGTV shows this is where they discover that your house is riddled with hidden knob-and-tube wiring only partially upgraded by a previous owner.
J R in WV
@Steeplejack:
We’re already rescheduled from 6 weeks ago, or so. I’m lucky to know what day today is, so that’s just a guess. Plus, everyone in that office is looking to get back to work. So, thinking about it. They do wear PPI and disinfect everything. A very professional shop, experienced, caring, etc. Will do their best, I’m sure.
But I’m so paranoid, because wife has had serious health issues in the past, including a long hospital stay with septic shock, which adversely affected her immune system.
Steeplejack (phone)
@J R in WV:
Better safe than sorry.
J R in WV
@Steeplejack:
Yeah, but we built this house ourselves, I know who did the wiring and watched it all happen. But there are other things that could have gone wrong inside the ceilings and walls.
I don’t think so, because if the structure was very compromised the tree would have done more than tear up some roofing and gutters, like smashed the roof and walls into the foundation.
But I feel snake-bit and paranoid. For one thing, I don’t really want a bunch of construction guys around while a mystery disease is also going around…
We’ll be OK, this is where I go to whimper and whine, since we’re sheltering in place. Thanks all for listening!
catclub
By no means, where i live in southern Mississippi. This year we actually had a lot of warm but not hot spring weather. A treat.
HinTN
@Steeplejack: I discovered knob and tube wiring in a part of the house I briefly owned in Five Points, the first “subdivision” in Huntsville, AL. It fed the light over the front porch and who knows what else. Backing slowly away, I quickly discovered I didn’t need to do whatever the hell rewiring project had brought me there.
catclub
Thermometer and questionaire. I brought a pulse oximeter but did not get up the nerve to demand they test as well on it.
Raoul
There’s a lot to love about living in Minnesota. But spring ain’t it. We have three months of summer, three months of autumn, five months of winter, and that leaves … at best 30 days for spring.
From snow to tulips and lilacs to 80s and humid, often in the span of as little as three weeks. Whomp!
Steeplejack (phone)
@HinTN:
One of the awful things they regularly find on the shelter shows is where some unscrupulous renovator or contractor installed new, up-to-code wiring where the homeowner can access it (e.g., fixture for ceiling light or fan) but tied that into the antiquated knob-and-tube wiring left in place “behind the scenes.”
BruceFromOhio
see, things are looking up already!
SWMBO
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Only 162 days until real change.
Morzer
Please provide no further information!
J R in WV
@HinTN:
I discovered knob and tube wiring in the very old (late 1800s) farmhouse we rehabed to move out to our farm in the late 1970s. The house had a bare lightbulb in the center of each room, and one 2-plug outlet inn each of 2 up and 2 down rooms, with a fusebox. I pulled the fuses immediately, went to the yard and bought a how-to book or 3, and started from scratch.
There was no running water, just a dug well out back, and no central heat, just a very old gas stove in each room… they had free gas because there were oil wells on the farm. After insulating, wiring, putting a pump in to pull water from the dug well, it started to become livable. Put in not-water baseboard central heat with a gas boiler, and then it started to become comfortable.
But no matter now hard I worked, it was never going to be any better than that. So I told wife, we need to stop spending money and effort on this, and plan a new house. So we bought some design books, and visited homes all over to see what current state of the art kitchens were like. Not that we installed a state of the art kitchen in the new house, just a nice one, with a good stove.
That old wiring was so scary, I thought it would burn the place down if I disturbed it. Once it was no longer connected to a live fusebox, I left it as it was, and stayed away from it.
ETA: In the end we hired an apprentice architect to design and provide a complete set of blueprints. But we had opinions!
dnfree
@Steeplejack: we had some knob-and-tube wiring in the attic of our house two back, a Queen Anne built in the 1870s. It was visible and we were advised to just leave it. The bats didn’t seem to bother it much. Most of what ran through the walls had been updated. Was that wrong?
Steeplejack (phone)
@dnfree:
It’s okay if it’s no longer connected to anything. What I was talking about was where people tied it in to new wiring.
dnfree
@Steeplejack (phone): it was tied into new wiring But it was visible. An old builder (my father, actually) told us that if it was in good condition it was very safe wiring.
Steeplejack
@dnfree:
Visible or not visible doesn’t affect the safety per se. It’s an issue when people see new wiring at their outlets and falsely assume that they’ve got modern wiring throughout.
And it depends on where you tie your new wiring into the old knob-and-tube wiring. Short article on some of the problems.