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   On 9/19/2025 5:59 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:10akpgg$q83c$1@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   > P.S.  They says its the humidity, not the heat that gets you.  Well when   
   > its over 115F the heat will definitely kill you, but a flood in the shop   
   > raise the humidity to southern swamp land levels.  At only 95 (normally   
   > nice outdoor weather for me) the humidity after the flood was miserable   
   > while I was moving the lathe and fixing the plumbing.   
   > Bob La Londe   
   >   
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   > The highest I've acclimated to was 105F when I lived in a drafty and   
   > poorly insulated top floor apartment, really a finished attic. My   
   > father's family is from Georgia and I didn't mind the summer heat there   
   > after two weeks. Two summers ago I was running the sawmill in 95F heat,   
   > though under a rain canopy.   
   >   
   > Mom's side is colonial New England. I can also acclimate to cold like   
   > them but it takes a while. I'm not nearly as cold tolerant as the Native   
   > Americans I knew, just pretty good for a white guy. When I was little   
   > the bedrooms were unheated and the house cooled quickly after the last   
   > evening coal fire died. I still heat with wood, the original plus my   
   > added insulation hold the heat much longer.   
   >   
   > Now my resting comfort range is low 80's indoors in summer and mid to   
   > high 50's in winter. You can have Arizona all to yourself.   
   >   
      
   I grew up doing summer jobs in the grapes and the cotton.  We were glad   
   to get them.  Kid crews chopping cotton and working the packing sheds.   
   We got more work done and typically got paid better than the labor camp   
   crews made up of "adults."  They didn't even hire the labor camps for   
   the packing sheds.  Acclimatized is a strong word.  I can do something I   
   enjoy without to much whining in the desert in the summer time up to   
   around 110F unless its humid if I have plenty of water.  Under 100F and   
   low humidity, I'm great.  High humidity?  F this shit!   
      
   My wife and I used to ride our motorcycles everywhere come Hell or   
   high... well, come Hell.  Not much high water around here.   We'd stop   
   at every stop and water up.  On bad days we soaked our helmets and our   
   riding gear on the hottest days, and everything would by dry by the next   
   stop.  We rode in rain, fog, cold, a lot of hot, and once in half a mile   
   of lemons.  I'll give her credit.  I mostly did it from my rocking chair   
   (FLHT or GL1200).  She did it from that damned kidney grinder Fatboy of   
   hers.  After riding that thing I don't think I would ever own a softail   
   myself.  I've ridden Paughco save-yer springers that were a better ride.   
      
   I'm getting older.  I can still do most things I need to do, but I go   
   slower, grab a pair of gloves, and try to do the worst things on the   
   better days if I can.  If I have to go rescue my son's car from along   
   the freeway on a 118F degree day I can still do it.  I'm just gonna   
   bitch about it a whole lot.   
      
   --   
   Bob La Londe   
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