How about Lutefisk? 
Lutefisk- a little onion, a little dill, some pepper, yuuuuummmmmm
Wait, I’m not getting something here . . . my Canadian neighbors GO BACK THERE for the summer. They seem to think it’s some kind of improvement over Florida, but it’s far more comfortable here than there!
Perhaps you should consider summering in the south . . . it’s hot, but, by gosh, we have a BEACH! Also air-conditioning that works.
They do make more modern fridges . . .
I was going to poke fun at this thing, but look what the website says about it . . .
Hermetically sealed and permanently lubricated, the GE Monitor Top refrigerator remains the most recognized and most dependable refrigerator ever built. Hundreds, if not thousands, of these units remain in service today, offering their owners “quiet”, “dependable” and “service free” refrigeration.
Who would have known?
How can you stand it? 
Saturday I nearly drowned in sweat riding with a dewpoint of 72F and temps in the mid 80’s by 10 AM.
I love cold pasta salad. It really hits the spot on a summer day.
A trick I used to use in pre central air days was to soak a T-shirt in water then stick it in the freezer. After it’s frozen put it on. It helps for a few minutes.
Another trick is to go sit in your closed up car for about 5 minutes. When you get out you feel cooler.
This is so perverse, yet so true!
djm
I don’t want to think about it…
We’re supposed to play tomorrow night for “National Night Out”. At 6pm. In a tent. On a blacktop parking lot.
They are declaring a heat “emergency” and temps, humidity, etc. are supposed to top out at the equivalent of 105F.
Hopefully the fire department will be there with their hoses again - I’ll go stand there after we get off stage.
Have fun!!!
I recall a gig once under similar circumstances and it played havoc with our tuning. Especially my flute. The bridge actually fell off the bass in the middle of a song.
On that note, I’m getting a bit worried about my fiddle coming unglued.
Yes, I live in Chicago.
No, I don’t have AC. AC doesn’t usually seem economically and health justified for me save for when the heat index goes over 100 every couple of years here.
Years back I left my fiddle home while I took my kids on a camping trip. I left it in an open case under a bed in a room on the first floor on the northern side of the house with the windows cracked open as much as security would allow.
Chicago must have gotten really hot while we were gone.
The poor fiddle not only came unglued, it looked like it exploded.
I’ve been hearing theories that Cajun fiddlers tune down to match the accordions but, since there are people producing accordions specifically for Cajun music, I’m not so sure it isn’t that one note down puts less stress on a fiddle in the heat and humidity of Louisiana.
Yep. We’ve had it pretty good here compared to most of the heartland.
That’s always a big controversy. The fuel load gets obscene around here, leading to fire risks classed as ‘explosive fire behavior’. Without logging, thinning, controlled burns, or just letting wildfires go, the undergrowth gets too thick. On one hand, we tend to let fires burn when they are true wildland fires; we won’t trade lives for trees, unlike some gung-ho crews elsewhere in the world. On the other hand, interface fires (near habitated areas) need to be fought tooth and nail where life-danger exists. Still, we won’t trade lives for houses.
The upshot is huge fuel loads near habitated areas. Everyone wants a lovely ‘natural’ mature wild forest near their home, even though it’s like living next to a small nuclear bomb. Tough choices.
That’s about what it has looked like at my house all week, too; in fact that’s what it’s been like since the end of June and what it will look like until the end of August/early September. The temperature doesn’t always hit a hundred, but we’ve got that nice high humidity to boost that heat index over a hundred before noon. It’s hot but at least it’s a damp heat.
I think the Canadians and Minnesotans and Californians here are getting to experience what summer is like all the time for people in Kansas and Oklahoma and Arkansas and Texas and parts nearby – heat index in the high nineties or low hundreds through about all of July and August, plus little pieces of June and September.
But then, if it were nice in the summer, the Californians would move here and run up our property values and insurance rates and generally ruin the place like they are doing to Montana.
(And I’m with you one hundred percent on the pasta salad, SteveShaw. It is an abomination in all its forms.)
No! No! I don’t want it. Make it go away. Wah! 
djm
Back in my salad days, I had one of these –
It’s a Kelvinator. I found it out back in the garage of an old house I was renting in 1979, so I hauled it out and plugged it in and the damn thing worked. We used it until 1987.
Sometimes, following tradition too regiliously will get you into trouble. Take fiddles, for example. The traditional glue for gluing fiddles is hide glue, made from animal bones. In order to use it you need to melt it in a pot and apply the glue while it is hot. It can become a sticky mess quite easily if you are not careful. The one advantage of using a weak glue like hide glue is that it is easy to disassemble the instrument should you want to make repairs. The bad aspects of hide glue is that the glued seams of the instrument routinely come unglued and need professional regluing, of course. The worst case scenario is when the instrument becomes completely unglued in pieces due to high heat, as in the case above.
I used to repair low-end fiddles, and I liked to use water-soluble white glue instead of the traditional hide glue. It made more sense to me to have a better bond than obtainable with hide glue. It is also a lot easier to use. Seams glued with white glue can be disassembled, but not as easily as with hide glue. Guitars and other instruments have beeed glued with white glue for many years, but the tradition of using hide glue has persisted with the bowed instruments. Here is a good opportunity for an iconoclast, but just don’t tell the purists.
always wanted to lay waste to the economy of Kansas
If an instrument has been repaired with water-soluble white glue is it better for the luthier to know that before attempting to dismantle it?
Also,
it was suggested to me somewhere that I should keep some unflavored gelatin in my fiddle case when I travel in case the fiddle needed minor repairs.
How would that be different from the traditional hide glue?
Yes, I would suggest that you mention it to the luthier if you know that white glue has been used to glue the top seams. Hide glue can be released with a hot knife. White glue will also need hot water from an eye dropper to help release the glue. I use a thin butter knife with rounded edges (not sharp or serrated) to separate the top from the ribs. This is a delicate process, and great care must be taken to avoid digging into the wood and removing small pieces of the softer spruce top. I suggest practicing doing this on a beater violin that you don’t care much about.
I wouldn’t recommend using unflavored gelatin for minor repairs. Instead, I would suggest a small bottle of liquid hide glue (a modern invention). This new type of hide glue doesn’t have to be heated, but it still has the same disgusting smell. It can be used just like white glue. I doubt that traditional luthiers would use it, however.
I was in a music store this weekend. There were 6 violins in there, too. I started experiencing the most dreadful . . . urge . . . to fondle one . . . and pull out my checkbook . . .
Fortunately, I realized in the nick of time that I haven’t the faintest notion of what to look for in a fiddle. Or if those were, in fact, fiddles.
The thought of seeing if I could learn fiddle is still in my mind. Of course, I realize that it would be a step down, because once you’ve whistled . . . well, there isn’t anywhere to go but down. But, still . . .
You have to be pulling my leg. The fiddle a step down from a whistle???
Sweetheart, the fiddle is at the pinacle of what instruments can be. There isn’t another instrument that even compares, except a cello, maybe.