Posted By: sandybryant on

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008, 2:40 pm

OK. Saturday morning I walked 9 miles or so in hot humid weather. The Race for the Cure a week earlier was even worse (but shorter).

Yesterday was in the high 80s and also humid. It rained in the afternoon and the ride home was awful--no traffic lights on most of my drive to work. It took my normal 20 minute commute to a whopping 1 hour and 20 minutes, making me very late to teach my 6 o'clock class and I had to send someone out to buy me dinner.

Today it is not humid, and the temps are in the high 70s. What a difference!

Guess what they say about weather in the DC area is true--Don't like it? Wait a bit. It'll change.

Tags: weather

Posted By: cmerin on

Thursday, June 12th, 2008, 1:02 pm

Finally the weather has gotten *cooler* -- we're currently at 84 degrees.  The kiddo had a half day Monday and no school Tuesday because we were up above 100.  I don't remember it getting this hot this early in a couple of years now.

I've got some house cleaning to do -- but the really cleaning kind (move tables, take out the books, ect.).  I want to get it done before the end of this month and the BBQ guests start coming and going.

What can I say -- short of the weather, it's been rather dull around here. LOL

Hope everyone is staying cool!

Tags: school, weather, cleaning

Posted By: cmerin on

Thursday, June 12th, 2008, 1:02 pm

Finally the weather has gotten *cooler* -- we're currently at 84 degrees.  The kiddo had a half day Monday and no school Tuesday because we were up above 100.  I don't remember it getting this hot this early in a couple of years now.

I've got some house cleaning to do -- but the really cleaning kind (move tables, take out the books, ect.).  I want to get it done before the end of this month and the BBQ guests start coming and going.

What can I say -- short of the weather, it's been rather dull around here. LOL

Hope everyone is staying cool!

Tags: school, weather, cleaning

Posted By: cmerin on

Monday, June 2nd, 2008, 4:56 pm

One of the things that I love the most about the internet is all the options out there to check the weather.

One of my most favorite sites to check is simpleweather.com.  No frills, just weather.

Another great site is weather.com. Here you have a plethora of information at your finger tips.  My favorite is the hour-by-hour weather.  Something great that weather.com has is their theweatherchannelkids.com site.  Lots of great information (and photos!) about weather in kid speak. :)

Accuweather.com is another site similar to weather.com.  Accuweather, however, has a premium membership option which allows you to view more detailed information without any ads.  This does come at a price though -- $7.95 a month or $79.95 a year.

If you use Firefox as your browser, you can add the Forecast Fox extension. It pulls the information from Accuweather, but it puts it in your toolbar or status bar and is customizable.

Do you use any of the above?  If not, where do you get your weather information from? 

Tags: internet, weather, firefox, geek is chic

Posted By: cl-wewish4baby on

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008, 4:08 pm

Okay at least today we are in the 50's, but it is so windy.  Supposedly we will have 80's this weekend - I will believe that when I see it. 

 I think my summer longing is enhanced by our trip to see my parents in Florida.  We have been home 2 weeks.  Down there we were wearing, shots and t-shirts - then we come home to go back into long sleeves, blue jeans and jackets.  sigh!  

Not sure what else we will do this summer. We might wait until regular school is back in session and go somewhere so we avoid the crowds - another advantage of homeschooling.

We have planted a few things in the garden and will plant more this weekend if it is nice.  Saturday we will take Jacob to the 4-H greenhouse as they are giving away some plants for the 4-H kids projects.   

We still have the 4-H pigs too and they are getting bigger every day. One thing I did not know about pigs even though we have raised them before is that pigs can get sunburned. Lucky us, one of our pigs seems to have more of an issue with sunburn than the other and of course she is not smart enough to stay in the shaded area of the pen.  Silly pig.  

Tags: summer, weather, gardening, homeschool, 4h