I actually had a grandmother that was born in the Bahamas. But she wasn't a "native" in the truest sense of the word - her ancestors had moved to a small island during the Revolutionary War, as many loyalists did. She ended up coming north again as a teen-ager when entire family was wiped out in a measles epidemic there, with the exception of her older brother who had already left the Caribbean for the fishing village in Montauk. So he sent for her when she was suddenly alone, and the rest is history as they say (at least my family history!). She did love the hot weather though and although I only knew her more than forty years after she left the tropical climate, she often mentioned how "beautiful" the weather was there. She never returned to her original home, but there is still a village there that carries her family name. I assume I have many third and fourth cousins there is ever I decided to go and look.
Well Grandma may have liked this weather but not me. I was as happy as a clam last week when the humidity dropped low and the temperature stayed tolerable. I knew it was too good to be true, especially in July.
And we still have August to get through.
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I can relate! I'm a Spring and Fall gal myself. This has been a doozie of a year, and today will be the WORST! 105-108 heat index and 97deg temps! I wonder if there are any vacancies in Alaska.
I lived in the Caribbean one summer...and I thought the heat and humidity would kill me, too. But the air is different there, and it always moves and the heat is not so severe because of the water being all around you. I happen to adore winter in all it's glory and would love to be a permanent late fall to winter snowflake, but after that summer...well, I recognized differences in the "wet heat" and have come to appreciate the caribbean as an acceptable one verses some of the stateside "wet heat" which is suffocating. Hoping you stay cool and blossoming and praying for an early fall!
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