Shooting the Breeze- general chit chat

[jar_]

Learning to wear a hat or cap.

I've never been a hat or cap person but I really need to start wearing one. I wore cowboy hats as a child and sometimes as an adult but things like headrests and what to do with it when you take it off were questions I never resolved. Baseball caps I have a surfeit of but I feel silly if I turn it around to shield my neck and if I don't I get sunburned.

So the other day I found a cap that folk gave me decades ago when I retired. It's covered with signatures and buttons and sayings. It fits and has a brim sorta. Looked it up online and it's called a Bucket Cap. The neat thing is it seems soft enough to just crush it up and stick it in a pocket if needed. I'll give it a try and see if we get along.

 

[nikonNUT]

I have a canvas bucket hat that I take to PRS matches. It's cotton or maybe canvas so if it it is getting really hot I'll stick it in one of the coolers that the range keeps cold water in. Give it a wring (or not) and slap it on my dome! Makes life better in direct sun when it's 110 in the shade.

 

[jar_]

05/08/2024 104F. Tomorrow is supposed to be 108F.

 

[nikonNUT]

05/08/2024 104F. Tomorrow is supposed to be 108F.

Ewwww!

 

[jar_]

Walked out to put some trash in the can and thought I'd die. And it's early, only 102F & 38% humidity. Feels like 112 and about four hours until it gets to maximum.

 

[jar_]

108F 40% humidity 4:01pm. 130 Heat index. Over a month until summer starts.

 

[Jens]

Among other hats, I got myself a Tilley LTM8 a couple of years ago that I have used a lot for sun protection and in rain (I wear specs), I get along very well with this hat:

LTM8 Airflo Cooling Mesh Hat

Redefine cool in our airiest Airflo yet, with full mesh crown made using 100% recycled nylon for extraordinary breathability that maintains UPF 50+ protection and water repellent finish.

tilley.com

 

[jar_]

Made it to 112F absolute today.

 

[jar_]

Next two weeks:

 

[nikonNUT]

Next two weeks:

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Said it before and I'll say it again... EWWWW! Oh and "NO!" just no. I'm sure I'll be seeing those temps soon enough.

 

[jar_]

They lied!

Said only 99F for today and it's already over 100F at just 5:20PM. 44% humidity. 115.2F Heat Index.

 

[simon1]

They lied!

Said only 99F for today and it's already over 100F at just 5:20PM. 44% humidity. 115.2F Heat Index.

I'm luvin' it! Free sauna.

 

[WThomas0814]

I blame JFK for the decline in men's hats.

I currently own six fur felt fedoras that I wear with business casual or business attire about 9 months of the year here in SE Pennsylvania. I also have a range of flat caps for all seasons in casual/smart casual settings.

I'm always the only man wearing a hat, but, I will always do it.

When a fedora comes off, best case is it gets placed on an empty chair at the table. In a theater, it rides my lap. Restaurants will always check it, but that comes with some risk of crushing. It never gets placed on the table.

 

[jar_]

Happy birthday Mr. Hoover; Brooks Robinson.

 

[jar_]

The NY Times has an interactive map plotting fatal shooting between 2020 and 2023. You can look up any city and see the plot. According to the description of methodology suicides were removed and looking at my neighborhood I see that one such suicide I am know of is not shown.

It's interesting to compare where I live now to other places I've lived.

 

[jar_]

Starting fifth week of daily Excessive Heat Warnings.

Maybe it will cool down once summer comes.

 

[Ad Astra]

Yeah ... I failed to do my casting when it was cold out, despite the neighbor scouting me pewter for the melt.

Fun casting boolits in July-August... One drop of sweat in that pot, and PSHHST, a visit from the Tinsel Fairy.


AA

 

[jar_]

I worked one summer as a core maker in a foundry. Talk about sweat...

It was not just sweat in a melt, sweat in the sand used to make the cores (where metal doesn't get poured like the holes in cast wheels) meant the core and all the others nearby returned to dust and powder when that drop of moisture turned to steam in the kiln.

 

[simon1]

I worked one summer as a core maker in a foundry. Talk about sweat...

Me too...just about the worst job I ever had. Never again...I'd rather get shot at.

 

[jar_]

Me too...just about the worst job I ever had. Never again...I'd rather get shot at.

So, when you came home from work did your mom make you go around back, strip and use the garden hose to wash before putting on the clean clothes she would put out on the stoop? Only then was I allowed in the house.