Fire Dragon vs. Water Dragon

[dancinghorse]

We've been, I won't call enjoying, but in a macho kind of way it's sort of like that, our annual spate of Dragon Weather: triple digits F, dry enough to crack your bones and your little dog's too, and blast-furnace winds that whirl upward into dust devils that can hit like small tornadoes.
It's the kind of weather that separates the snowbirds from the desert rats, and even the mad dogs and Englishmen hole up away from the noonday sun.

Last week around this time, the weathercritters declared solemnly that the dragon was here to stay. The tropics, which start to fire storms and brew rain along about the middle of June, were quiet. We might see our summer monsoon (when the water dragon and the fire dragon go to war, and it's fire and flood as far as the eye can see), but it might not start around the Fourth of July as it usually does.

Two days later, after a hurricane hit Acapulco, we had our first monsoon storm. Thunder, lightning, and haboob. Happy Caturday!

Now the fire is back. May hit 110 this week. But come the weekend, we'll see the rain.

Maybe.

In the meantime, there is Camp, and there has been yoga, and I RODE MY POOKA for the first time in eight months. He's seriously out of shape, and he's lost a lot of muscle mass (for the first time in his life, he looks little when I'm on him), but he's sound and ready to work. Which puts the whole world back into balance.

Comments

[deire.livejournal.com]

The weather sounds uncomfortable but beautiful.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

That about sums it up. 8)

[galeni.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for Pooka!

We wouldn't mind a small touch of that dragon -- it's in the 50s here at midday and rainy and dark. I'm huddled in fleece and handwarmers. Gorgeous green though.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

I can imagine. I dream of being cold. Love winter. But summer has a certain macho cachet.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Tonight we took houseguest to Medieval Times, and when I saw all those beautiful white horses dancing (and one even did a spectacular capriole!) I thought of your guys.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

:) I think some of those are Lipizzans. Definitely there are Andalusians.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That kind of hot weather would destroy me, I think. Thin-blooded northern European: I wilt easily.
I hope the storms don't do too much damage, and neither does the heat.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

I'm from northern New England, can't handle humid heat at all. Dry heat is amazingly tolerable. One adapts. When I got overheated at the Mission, I retreated to the gift shop, cooled down, then was able to go up the sacred hill. Plus I kept the water coming.

It is an art and a skill. And kind of an ascetic exercise as well.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Other people have told me this, too. I've never spent long enough in dry heat to acclimatise, I suspect. I have been to Death Valley, which was... hard. I could feel my skin shrivelling about me.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

It's better to start in cooler weather, then work your way toward the Dragon. It's a process. I mostly recommend that guests come between October and early May. Summer is for the hard core.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I will bear that in mind: thank you.

[janni.livejournal.com]

There's a certain pride in being able to endure and even enjoy summer. :-)

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Oh yes.

Though I was kind of glad only to go out a couple of times today, and not be out for hours.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I RODE MY POOKA

YAY.

I hope you get the required amounts of rain in appropriate doses.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much.