The Beach is the Only Comfortable Spot in So Cal

@DeborahDiane We did very early this morning. It rained during the night, the air is cool and the sky clear now.

@LadyDuck - I love the way the air smells right after it rains. It seems so fresh and clean!

@LadyDuck - Walking along a trail in Switzerland sounds heavenly. We did that around Zermatt when our daughter was in school there, and it was wonderful!

@RubyHawk - I agree the treadmill gets boring. I prefer to be outside. When I cannot, then I will ride the exercise bike and listen to a book on my phone from the Audible app. It's not as good as being outside, but I just cannot stand to be outside in this heat, unless I am at the beach.

@RubyHawk - Our swimming pools are in the sun, too, so when we go to the pool, we try to go late in the day. It is the only time to be safe from sunburn and comfortable.

@DeborahDiane Our pools are outdoors and the sun can get hot so to prevent sunburn I usually go swimming about sundown.If we had shade I would love to go earlier, but sundown is okay.

@DeborahDiane I have a feeling that the hot weather is only going to get hotter in coming years - I agree with you that up north places are going to be the "happening" places to go in the summer and into the late summer. It's supposed to be getting cooler, but I don't know . . . it's been consistently hot - how about where you are?

@much2say - This was the hottest July ever in California. It is very hot is Southern California and August is off to an unseasonably hot start. We have also had some very bad drought years. In the past 12 months, we have had less than 5 inches of rain. These things are not good.

@much2say - I'm glad it was cool in Monterey. I think cool places like the mountains and northern beaches are going to be popular in the future, if we keep having such hot weather! Keep staying cool!

@DeborahDiane I need to sort back through your discussions when I catch up with my notifications. I guess I miss too many of them... either because I didn't see you'd posted something or because my notifications list just gets too darn long for me to go exploring to see everything people write about. *shake my head* Pretty and I have a shoe box full of shells we picked up when we went to the beach at Shaw's Cove. We also found a diver's watch that was still working when we were wandering the beach. It's band had broken and it had washed up on the beach with some kind of seaweed. When we got home I put the shoe box in our garage. A few weeks later I heard an alarm going off. It took me several days to realize the watch had an alarm set and I was hearing it go off. The watch was so corroded that I couldn't shut the alarm off again! I heard that alarm going off at 11 am for almost a year after we had found the watch. If I had been on the beach when bubbles float by I'd have been chasing them, too!

@DaddyEvil - I totally understand the issue with notifications. They get to be overwhelming, especially reading every post our connections write. I'm getting ready to leave on a trip, so I am having a little trouble keeping up right now, too. We are going to be gone until the end of August. I will try to catch up with people then.

@DaddyEvil - I do post occasionally about interesting things I see in Laguna Beach. It is an artist's colony, so there is a great deal of street art. I posted a picture of a public bench in front of the library the other day. I used to pick up seashells all the time. However, you can only hold onto so many seashells! LOL I have also posted about a man building an amazing sand castle, another man who stacks rocks in interesting designs and photographs them, etc. I often write about my beach experiences! I added here a photo of children chasing bubbles at the beach.

@just4him - Yes, a nice park sounds lovely. I know a lot of people walk in our local malls, too.

@just4him - Wow! Of course, you live in Wisconsin, so it is probably cooler there in the summer than it is in Southern California. i don't think I could survive here without A/C. Good for you, though!

@DeborahDiane I don't like A/C very much, and only turn it on when absolutely necessary. Walking in a mall would be way too cold for me.

@Hannihar - I think it is good you have an exercise routine, too. The woman I walk with is the grandmother of the Orthodox Jewish young woman I told you about. She is visiting her grandmother right now. They were cooking for a Chabad or Chabat dinner today. (I may have spelled that wrong.)

@Hannihar - She seems to be enjoying spending time with her grandmother and grandfather. She has inspired my friend to go to Temple more and, of course, my friend has been cooking Kosher. She loves to cook, and she is very happy having her granddaughter stay with her for a couple of weeks.

@DeborahDiane The first spelling is right for Chabad. So, how is the young girl doing?

@DeborahDiane Have fun at the beach.

@popciclecold - Yes, it eventually gets hot.

@popciclecold - Thanks!

@maximax8 - I try to stay in a lot when it is this hot. This morning, I went to the gym and rode a stationary bike. It was just too hot to do anything outside.

I have a habit of taking a bike ride after the sun goes down in the summer. In the winter, I ride home from work at 5:00 and it's after the sun goes down-- but not by my choice!

@petatonicsca I never was a good bike rider.

@marguicha - Yes, it is better after the sun goes down here, too. It is too hot in the middle of the day.

@stringer321 - Many people have found that they actually feel better when they get exercise, even when they sweat a little! Good luck setting up your exercise plan!

@DeborahDiane thanks you too...

@sueznewz2 - I think the heat is a problem this summer all around the Northern Hemisphere. Try to stay cool until fall!

@dgobucks226 - Oh, yes. I love to keep busy and spending time at the beach is one of my favorite activities!

@Icydoll - I'm glad you enjoyed the picture. I think the beach is a good place to head in the summer.

@muhamahyasin82 - I understand that is a beautiful area. We have some friends who lived in Jakarta for two years. That was about 25 years ago, and they have wonderful memories of their time there.

@muhamadyasin82 - They had a wonderful experience in Jakarta. I will have to ask her more about her time there.

@DeborahDiane Oh really? I love to know that your friend have come to Jakarta. Jakarta has changed.. a lot more crowded, but South Jakarta is still pretty good. Maybe one day you can visit Jakarta or maybe Bali. Many nice areas in Indonesia Indonesia itself is called Zamrud Khatulistiwa by many people

@xiaolisu - I am so sorry you are fighting an old disease. I hope you heal.

@petatonicsca - My friends and I walk in a mall once in a while, too. However, our mall does not have mall walking signs on the floor. That would be great!

@JohnRoberts - That is the perfect time to go walking. Lately, it has been nicer in the early morning than it is after dark. Can you believe all the smoke we are getting from the Idyllwild fire? The entire LA basin seems to be covered in smoke!