Annmarie,
Where do you get that wrap? I've been thinking about that stuff a lot since last summers fire burnt something like 100,000 acres in the first 36 hours and was within about 6 miles of the house when local ranchers and timber operators managed to stop it in our direction. It seems like there would be a huge market for it, but I've never seen it for sale locally. I found a website for Firezat. Would that be the product?
We have been very blessed the last three days. They were predicting temperatures in the high 90's but what feels like a marine layer from the ocean has moved in over us every morning dropping temperatures back into the 60's at night and staying very comfortable until late afternoon. We are back to work, spot spraying weeds on the steep hillsides. My husband tells everyone that we spend our summers together backpacking, which sounds like fun, until he tells them we are climbing up and down over 900 steep acres with full sprayers on our backs.
The heat here a few days ago was bad. Much hotter than anything I have felt in the past, but I agree with those from the south and especially the southeast, that their heat is worse. The humidity is a killer and you don't even get a break at night. My Dad grew up in Arkansas, and we would visit his family ever summer. It was really beautiful there, but having spent weeks in summer with his parents in a home without any air conditioning, I knew it was not for me. Minnesota had its share of hot humid days, and the mosquitos would eat you alive. There was no relief at night. We didn't have AC, so the windows were always open and you would lay in bad at night alternating between sweating under the sheets and being eaten by the mosquitos as soon as you threw them back to try to get some air. That was one of the reasons I moved to Oregon. I was shocked when we first arrived and saw people didn't even have screens in their windows, because there are so few biting insects.
