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Yeah, more like 5-6! It's too hot for me from April through the end of October!
I know I came from a cold area but I love the heat!
In a few weeks you're gonna start hearing me say, "I want my summer back!"
I am really good outside up to around 110 - after that it gets a bit warm for me.
Three months of heat, nine months of beautiful weather - I'm sticking by it!
I'm really good until about 90. Then I'm ready for it to cool off. I guess it's my Finnish heritage? Mom's from N.MN and we spent at least a month up there, way up north every summer. My uncle was the supervisor of a state forest nursery in Akeley and grandparents lived in Wawina ( not Wadina). The population is currently 963! Finnish is the first language in the township.
the township is north of Duluth, MN, near the huge metropolis of Floodwood. I remember fishing on Pancake Lake and grandpa got the boat stuck. Then, they got the tractor stuck, then another tractor. Finally got everything out with a third, bigger tractor. I must have been about five or six at the time. We actually have the family movie of grandpa and my brother riding all the tractors and boat back, burned to a CD. Boy, those mosquitoes were something!
No running water, no indoor plumbing. For bathing, we had this wonderful sauna that my grandpa and uncle built, wood fired, of course. For water, we hauled the water from a little hand pumped well.
If we wanted an extra fancy sauna, we walked over to my great aunt and Uncle's house, they had a huge sauna. Still wood fired but that thing could hold a party of twenty. The tradition was to cut a bunch of willow branches, soak in water for an hour before the bath. Then, while bathing, you slap your back with the branches to invigorate yourself. Felt great!
Those saunas were the best! Mom and grandma would sit on the top and throw so much steam, it's a wonder they wouldn't have ahead stroke.
Than, into the dressing room and cool off with fresh cool water. Repeat a couple of times if you like.
In winter, you could run out in the snow. We never visited in winter, the drive from CO was too treacherous. It would have been fun, though. Everyone was into snowmobiling and ice fishing in a big way.
