Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[MROO]

First day of AC here also, hit 89F. I can tolerate quite a bit of cold but heat- forget it!! I recall as a young child I hated the heat and had mostly cold liquids and avoided heavy meals.

I'm just the opposite. Thanks to a near-miss health issue some years ago, I now carry my own personal summers with me all the time. I rarely need a coat, and stay in short sleeves all year, but unless it's bright and sunny out, I HATE the cold! Dismal skies depress me to the point of suffocation ... so bring on the blue skies and beaches!
That said, I do upset my kids regularly by leaving the AC off. I like to leave my windows open, which I can't do with the AC running (at least, not until the kids are footing the entire electric bill!) It's got to be pretty oppressive for me to close my windows, especially at night. I think, a least for me, it's more a function of the humidity than the actual temperature. As soon as the air feels like someone just hit me in the face with a wet washcloth, it's time to close up the house and crank up the AC!

 

[MROO]

Mine is forty-something .....

Mine range from almost 40 (stepchildren I raised from itty-bitty) to my youngest - a HS grad, this year. We run the gamut ... and sometimes, the gauntlet!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I'm just the opposite. Thanks to a near-miss health issue some years ago, I now carry my own personal summers with me all the time. I rarely need a coat, and stay in short sleeves all year, but unless it's bright and sunny out, I HATE the cold! Dismal skies depress me to the point of suffocation ... so bring on the blue skies and beaches!
That said, I do upset my kids regularly by leaving the AC off. I like to leave my windows open, which I can't do with the AC running (at least, not until the kids are footing the entire electric bill!) It's got to be pretty oppressive for me to close my windows, especially at night. I think, a least for me, it's more a function of the humidity than the actual temperature. As soon as the air feels like someone just hit me in the face with a wet washcloth, it's time to close up the house and crank up the AC!

Lol @ you and @drumstick diva . Me and DH sound like the two of you. I am a child of the desert and after 10 years in MO I still can't get warm! I have an electric blanket at night and extra blankets; I take a sweater when I go into town even in the dead of summer because every business seems to think it has to be 60°F inside to be comfy ... but DH is sweating even in winter when it's freezing and almost never wears a coat, unless it's a flat-out blizzard! We will never reach thermodynamic equilibrium, but we are absolutely compatible in every other aspect of life! (Which basically means he agrees with me about everything and likes my cooking!)

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I'm just the opposite. Thanks to a near-miss health issue some years ago, I now carry my own personal summers with me all the time. I rarely need a coat, and stay in short sleeves all year, but unless it's bright and sunny out, I HATE the cold! Dismal skies depress me to the point of suffocation ... so bring on the blue skies and beaches!
That said, I do upset my kids regularly by leaving the AC off. I like to leave my windows open, which I can't do with the AC running (at least, not until the kids are footing the entire electric bill!) It's got to be pretty oppressive for me to close my windows, especially at night. I think, a least for me, it's more a function of the humidity than the actual temperature. As soon as the air feels like someone just hit me in the face with a wet washcloth, it's time to close up the house and crank up the AC!

I used to live out in the PNW. Cloudy and overcast 9 months of the year. I was a little younger and it didn't bother me as much because it wasn't numb you to the bone cold. Then kiddo came along and when a little older we lived in western PA. More cloudy and overcast days per year than Portland OR. The winters were the worst. The sun went away by mid October not to be seen again until early April.
PNW dark wasn't so bad, but upper mid-atlantic dark plus bitter cold?? Awful. Just awful! Nights down to sub-0 or just 0 and highs of 5 or 10 if we were lucky. Never a ray of sunshine to warm up anything or bring any kind of brightness.
I understand well feeling of winter suffocation and despair, and how much it sucks the life out of you. One of the reasons I had to leave that area.

Here I still marvel at how much sun there is in the winter. Like honest to goodness sun. Step out on the front porch in jammies and slippers with my cup of coffee to drink in the brightness sunshine. Each and every week during the winter.
Enough so that if there is more than three days without sun I get cranky. Very cranky.
Temps ain't too bad either (for winter that is). A little chillier than your location, but it can be 40 degrees and sunny and all I need is a long sleeve shirt over a tshirt. A hoodie sometimes, but never long johns, which were a staple from Nov to March in PA.

My personal temp comfort range is about 45 to 78. I'm a sweatshirt while wearing shorts kind of person. I don't much care for anything hotter than 80 and humidity stinks.
I know, I know...I'm in the wrong area for humidity. The winters make up for it.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I used to live out in the PNW. Cloudy and overcast 9 months of the year. I was a little younger and it didn't bother me as much because it wasn't numb you to the bone cold. Then kiddo came along and when a little older we lived in western PA. More cloudy and overcast days per year than Portland OR. The winters were the worst. The sun went away by mid October not to be seen again until early April.
PNW dark wasn't so bad, but upper mid-atlantic dark plus bitter cold?? Awful. Just awful! Nights down to sub-0 or just 0 and highs of 5 or 10 if we were lucky. Never a ray of sunshine to warm up anything or bring any kind of brightness.
I understand well feeling of winter suffocation and despair, and how much it sucks the life out of you. One of the reasons I had to leave that area.

Here I still marvel at how much sun there is in the winter. Like honest to goodness sun. Step out on the front porch in jammies and slippers with my cup of coffee to drink in the brightness sunshine. Each and every week during the winter.
Enough so that if there is more than three days without sun I get cranky. Very cranky.
Temps ain't too bad either (for winter that is). A little chillier than your location, but it can be 40 degrees and sunny and all I need is a long sleeve shirt over a tshirt. A hoodie sometimes, but never long johns, which were a staple from Nov to March in PA.

My personal temp comfort range is about 45 to 78. I'm a sweatshirt while wearing shorts kind of person. I don't much care for anything hotter than 80 and humidity stinks.
I know, I know...I'm in the wrong area for humidity. The winters make up for it.

I do miss the sun ...

 

[MROO]

Well crew, it looks like I've done it again .. stayed up waaaaaay too late pretending I was working on the computer. I did take a break for dinner ... my dear children are visiting their Dad, so I had free access to all of the wonderful things they wont touch. Dinner was hand-made garlic-parsley pasta and scallops with mushrooms. I even splurged and made a real cream sauce for it (it pays to have a dairy farmer in the family!) Now that I've overdosed on carbs and butter, it's time to go sleep it off.
Happy Memorial Day, almost. Don't forget to put out your flag. An awful lot of people gave an awful lot of lives so we could hang out here and say what we want without fear. Let's remember them.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I do miss the sun ...

Want me to see if I can get some in a bottle to send??

I know someone who lives over towards Springfield and she swears she likes the cold and dark.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Want me to see if I can get some in a bottle to send??

I know someone who lives over towards Springfield and she swears she likes the cold and dark.

We actually had blue skies and sunshine today, so thank you! ❤ My DD has zombie tendencies as well and is always turning off lights and closing blinds; I follow along behind her and coax the sunshine in. She is at that age where she covered her window with aluminum foil. Her room is like a black hole... but she will outgrow it in 10 or 15 years, right?

 

[FortCluck]

It was hazy today in VA. Wasn’t super warm either but warm enough. I prefer it to be 80+

 

[CapricornFarm]

It was hazy today in VA. Wasn’t super warm either but warm enough. I prefer it to be 80+

I like 70s, we are supposed to have a lovely day tomorrow.