Summer Is Coming

 

So, June 20 will be the first day of summer this year. Fantastic.

I remember hearing on one of the weather forecasts that this summer should be extremely warm with a lot more hot temperatures on more days this year than in other years. Who knows, it might be an after-effect of the warm weather that we had during the last winter. Sure, there were very cold days then but we also had a number of quite warm ones. 

All I know is that everything seems to me to be very confusing with respect to our 4 seasons. After all, didn't we really jump from winter right into summer? In other words, we just don't seem to be experiencing that much in spring anymore. 

What was interesting to me this year was how quickly my plants seem to be growing and how big. They did seem to blossom later than the flowers last year but that has not really caused any major problems. They seemed much larger than what they were before in my new home residence.  In fact, many of the plants in this area grew so large that the gardeners have had to cut them down a bit already and put them into a smaller size. They told me that they expect to do a lot more long flower-cutting gardening this year, every 2 weeks or so, than in the past. 

I am hardly a gardening expert. More importantly, as a condominium unit owner, I do not have the job really of looking after the lawns and flowerbeds around my unit. That is the task of the landscaping firm that we hire and whose bill we pay for as part of our condo expenditures. Nevertheless, I do speak with the gardeners so that I understand what they're going to be doing. Moreover, I've also asked them to take some actions with respect to the plants we have around here and thankfully, they listen to me and have carried out so far the gardening jobs that I have talked to them about. It has been nice gesture on their part. 

Our Condo swimming pool has now been opened up. I was with my son on the weekend to go to the pool. I thought that he was quite a brave person by going into the pool and enjoying it. In fact, he said that it was quite warm because they had heated it quite well. As for me, well, I'm just not ready yet to go into the pool. I will do it eventually because I think I am in a physical shape that will allow me to do it. I did not do it at all last year after finally getting better from my illness but I know that it is time that I try it out very soon.  Once I successfully do it, I'm certain that I will use the pool a lot especially if the weather is so good. 

My wife and I have started doing our walking routine as well. With winter ending, we started going out to walk as long as we could to get the exercise that we needed to make us both feel better. While all of this walking really is my function to make the better physically, my wife does it as well. She does it to look after me as I do my strolling exercises but she too does it to make her physically better also. 

However, our weather is so weird as I mentioned that my expectation that we can walk around for hours may have to change if the weather continues to get as warm as it has been and will be over the next few days. There is just no way that I am prepared to walk around in 90° temperatures. I do walk for a reasonably long time in the mornings when it is not all that warm. Unfortunately, by about 11 AM, I just had enough of strolling around because the temperature is making it too difficult for me to continue moving.  It means I will have to figure out what new exercising I can be doing in the home that will reduce my weight in the same way that so much walking did.  After all, last year, I spent almost 3 hours a day walking on many occasions i.e. one hour or more each in the morning, noon and early evening. 

Because of my new life experiencing, I really am forced to do a lot of things differently than before. It is quite a transformation that I have to get used to and hopefully I will be able to do so properly. The purpose of my increased amount of exercising obviously is to ensure that my physical condition keeps improving and I do not have another attack. 

It is interesting for me to do this because it is quite an experience when I do a "new" exercise, or rather enhance what this is that I am already doing. Oh sure, I know what I'm supposed to do but seriously, it takes time to work up to the new objective set out and then reach it, happily. Once the objective is reached, then all that happens is that the numbers set out increase as well so I have to keep improving my operations.  That is all supposed to help me out physically and so far it has. 

I think that most people are quite pleased that our temperature is doing so well. I must admit that I have not done much of a comparison between years but it just seems to me that our weather in our area has improved pretty dramatically over the last few years. In fact, it is getting even better. For how long though, who knows! 

Anyway, dear reader, it is time for me to stop writing and to get ready to have more contacts with my friends. The reality is that even though it is a bit more difficult, nevertheless, I expect that those of us exercising are not only doing that function better but also doing better on a lot more other activities that we have just learned about and started.