An old saying goes something like this: if you don’t like the weather in Texas, just wait a minute — it’ll change. Well, that pithy little maxim falls apart in summertime, when from May til October you can count on the forecast to read blazing hot with a chance that it will rain fire and brimstone. As evidence may I present the latest weather report?
Fuck!
Sorry to whip out the F-bomb, but I think we can agree it was deserved — unless you enjoy singeing the film on your eyeballs as you walk across concrete, or maybe catching the faint whiff of cooking kidneys if you happen to get caught outside of air conditioning for more than a minute or two, that is.
Aside from sprouting fins and gills and making a new home under the sea, the only remedy for such intolerable cruelty is this:
Doesn’t this sleek white mid mod pad designed by architect Victor Gruen and decorated by Chahan Minassian look positively icy?
And ok, the pool doesn’t hurt anything.
Later, homies! If we don’t run errands before noon, someone will have to scrape us off the ground of a parking lot.
[Chahan Minassian, Roger Davies Photography, Modernica]
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Um…fuck is right!
How did people survive before air conditioning?!
Love the icy white.
Way to start the day! I just went out for yesterday’s mail, as I refuse to step foot outside after noon.
Let’s take a road trip! I heard Seattle was cool and damp, yesterday.
I’m SO not looking forward to another impossibly long, South Texas Summer. The horror . . .
Hey there,
I always visit but never comment. Lazy. Sneaky. Rushed. The reasons are just too many!
Anyhow, this time I had to comment to say that I feel your pain. We are in Central Florida and our temps are pretty much like yours. And no rain (not in my side of town anyway, it has rained all around us, but not here!). Oh, forgot to say why this is so important to me: we have a large garden and no grass. So our little dream place is wilting away.
Last thing, and most important: You make me laugh. Every morning while snorting coffee your writings make me crack up. So thank you. Thank You!!!
Come to LA, where we are suffering from the hilarity they call “June Gloom,” which basically means (horror of horrors), the sun is NOT shining and it is a terrible 65 outside.
Yeah, LA is weird.
Stay cool!
Aww, thanks Gardening Fool! I would say your comment just warmed the cockles of my heart, but that would be a bad thing considering the insufferable heat, right?
Rebecca, San Francisco was like that — summers were super cold, like long wool coat cold. I hated it. I hate this, too. Maybe I need to learn to stop hating so much… nah.
That brutalist side table almost made me forget that it’s so hot here for a moment. Then I quickly remembered because, you know, of the word brutalist.
Oh GOD, and that chandelier…
That dining table and chairs make me hot and sticky in the best possible way! San Francisco was the worst in the summer (lived there for five years). Currently cold and gloomy in San Diego too. I would gladly roast in 100 degrees right now. I guess everything deserves a “fuck.”
Oh boo stay cool. Pools are definitely key. We’re rockin the low 80′s here and its glorious. I know, that’s mean, but I’m just trying to tempt you up to the city of brotherly love.
LOVE this house. In ways inappropriate for blog commenting.
The summers in Denver are divine – 80s and humidity under 20%. The trade-off is 6 months of winter.
Ahhhhh.
Love this space. SO cool and refreshing, yet grounded by that black table base and wood wall in the entry….Gorgeous. Where do you find all these amazing images?
Heather
And our AC broke down last weekend! NOT FUN. $200 bought back our sanity.
You should buy that house
Im still cranky from a 47.9 degree C (118F) that we had here in 2009 so I can feel your heated pain! I said many F words & quite a bit of C words too on that day!