A New Recommendation

It's so hot that Mush doesn't even want to go for her walk. She runs outside, does her business and runs right back inside

@Marilynda1225 I’m with Mush!

I think that they are a wise decision, hats can blow off, and they do not cover our arms or legs.

No me either, I use the hood on my raincoat, if I'm wearing it when it rains.

@wolfgirl569 In the spring and autumn I do, but never in the summer, it feels too hot to take a coat with me.

@Juliaacv I seldom even have that.

That is funny, my bridesmaids wore southern belle gowns and carried parasols. I did not, but they did.

It would cover much more than a hat would, and hats can be blown off and then they don't do any good. I haven't a parasol.

@LadyDuck I am sure that it was beautiful. It was probably very well made, as I find that things made years ago were more likely to have been made by hand, and there was much more pride in workmanship in those articles.

@Juliaacv - My grandmother had one, white with lace, now I wonder where it could be.

I think that it depends on the culture. I see alot of Asians using them, and the only others I see must be dermatologists or people married to one. Me, I stay inside as much as I can when the sun is so bright because my b/p medication makes me extra sensitive to the sun and I've burn within a few minutes far too many times.

@Marilynda1225 I know what you mean, and I do miss it too. I actually was doing it up until maybe 6 or 7 years ago.

@Juliaacv i burn easily too and suffered many bad sunburns in my younger days. We didn't know back then how dangerous the sun was. Now I'm extra careful but a part of me ( a very tiny part) does miss laying out in the sun.

I feel like my life is a break in the shade. I use children's strong sunscreen. It is good for sensitive skin and it is strong, like 75spf I want to say.

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@Juliaacv Yeah I prefer to be safe than sorry

We used to have 0 gravity chairs with a little canopy that you could flip from the back to give you shade, but it wasn't alot of shade, your legs were exposed to the sun.

@Juliaacv ..........I feel the same way. And, as I age it seems that I am less able to handle it.

I feel like it gets hotter and the heat spells last a little longer every year.

Here I see people with umbrellas more than parasols. I just started wearing a sunhat a couple of years ago, mostly I stay out of the sun.

They are used here also.

@Fleura That is a really cute little parasol. We have a couple of golf umbrellas, but we would not take them out in a thunderstorm because of the danger of becoming a lightening rod. As it is, I have a steel plate behind my forehead, and can probably attract lightening as it is, but I've never been struck, so maybe not.

@Juliaacv Let's hope it stays that way! Going off at something of a tangent...My partner used to work with a man who seemed to have a funny effect on computer systems; this was a problem in an IT business! Eventually it transpired that he had in the past been struck by lightning. It doesn't seem plausible that there would be a lasting effect but no-one could come up with any other explanations!

@Juliaacv That's a good point, you wouldn't want to be carrying a mobile lightning conductor! I had forgotten that Little one has a bamboo parasol. She hasn't used it much but she bought it a few years ago at a festival and they were quite popular there because we were sitting outside and there wasn't much shade! And of course in that sort of environment they are much more 'normal' than in a more everyday sort of situation. I don't usually post photos of the family but I will make a sort of exception!

I see people doing that here with regular umbrellas.